Toitoitoi is a platform for learning and sharing where practitioners across departments can encounter each other to try out and play around with performance-based art and methods and pay attention to the ways in which these experiences leak into their own practices.
Toitoitoi will invite different performance artists to lead a workshop, followed by a series of aftercare sessions where the participants can meet again to share afterthoughts, works and get a chance to delve deeper into ideas and mediums they want to experiment with.
Toitoitoi offers a space for everyone interested in how different art practices come together, merge, and inform one another.
Next toitoitoi workshop _EDGING THE GROUND, LIKE THE SKIN OF A LOVER_ will be led by alex blum!!
*the sound holes are mouths, heads, lungs, sinuses, and the love calls are hearding calls, cruising attempts or just the eternal impulse to connect with others*
This workshop invites people to explore using performance and theater as a transformative and political way of expressing and acting upon struggles, all of it in drag. It is informed by the Theatre of the Oppressed, a community-based technique developed by Augusto Boal. The workshop includes creating characters, expressing our emotions, performing for each other, and having discussions about the struggles we face in everyday life, using humor and over-dramatization in the style of telenovelas.
2024
Eva Delville
Philisha Kraatz
Christina Reinhardt
Next toitoitoi workshop _EDGING THE GROUND, LIKE THE SKIN OF A LOVER_ will be led by alex blum!!
May 8th 2024
16:00-19:00
GYM of Gerrit Rietveld Academie
EDGING [...] is a body and performance research, fabulating from the practice of 'body hiking', which I developed together with Chen MingJou, Rowan van Sen and Ryan Le-Nguyen.
EDGING [...] Is a fleshy and sweaty workshop about the erotic affordances of the floor. Working with nonbinary muscle tissue, consent rehearsals, and floor fucking, we'll rehearse performative images of pain, pleasure, power and pressure <3 it is free of charge and open to all
We advise to bring movement clothes, water, a notebook, and knee pads, if you have them lying around. The workshop begins at 16'00, so please be there in due time to warm up your body and our communal work <3
The workshop is open to everyone - also non-students.
Register your spot at toitoitoi.project@gmail.com
Poster by Cleo Tsw and Mel Keane See you there!
