Guided by Max Frimout, artists Nikita Berezko, João Brito, Giulia del Gobbo, and Farah Hijazi welcome you to Interstice: a dialogue between two rooms. Throughout the evening, this multidisciplinary group of artists will activate the space, turning it into a shared experience where sound, light, movement, and bodies meet in one pulsing rhythm.

Interstice is a performance happening in two acts, in two rooms, that started from the artists' shared concerns about surveillance technology and its agency over bodies. From within a shared listening state, vibrations cut in at irregular intervals, distant sounds claim their space, as they reveal the massive presence of a nearby collapsing entity. What seems noise becomes progressively visible through visuals, nourished by live camera feeds and tracking systems registering movements. As these signals accumulate, the boundaries between the two environments begin to blur.  Does what you experience belong to here, or there?


The 'Interstice: a dialogue between two rooms' is the result of a 6-month co-creation project guided by sound artist Max Frimout. During this project, the collective explored the possibilities of faulty machinery - technology that glitches, fails and breaks apart and questioned whether encounters with the virtual liberate bodies or instead render them silenced and erased.

PROGRAMME
20:00 Exhibition Soft, Slow and Powerful opens
21:00 Walk in Stage
21:30 Performance Interstice
23:00 Video-installation open for play and The Destroyer installation open for listening
00:00 End

A ticket for this performance includes entry to the expo

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Farah Hijazi is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher, currently based in Amsterdam, with roots in Palestine and Jordan. Her work is both personal and political, a way to make sense of her surroundings and inner life. Fluidly moving between vivid dreams, intimate reflections, and social realities, she explores how emotions, relationships, and power systems intersect and shape the human experience. She approaches art as a place of discovery, where play and curiosity guide and the unexpected is embraced as part of the process.

Giulia Del Gobbo is an Italian interdisciplinary designer and curator, currently based in the Netherlands. Her work develops at the intersection of critical design, embodied practice, and curatorial practices, with a particular interest in creating performative open-source spaces. Recently, she has been exploring the embodied instrument of the human voice, and the related practice of listening. For her, the voice is a vector that does not move away from the body, but rather carries it forward, stretching and entraining it. Giulia considers the body as an autonomous acoustic instrument and treats the voice as a radically heterogeneous element capable of expressing participation or interaction with a constantly changing environment.

João Brito is a Portuguese percussionist, creator, and performer living in the Netherlands. He explores sound, movement, and space in ways that blur the boundaries between music, dance, and performance. As a storyteller, he creates collaborative, interdisciplinary works that invite reflection through art.

Max Frimout is a researcher and creator working in and between the fields of dance, music, and technology, with a particular focus on how feedback systems between bodies, sound, and space can induce trance and altered states of attention. His practice connects field research into traditions like the Gnawa with experiments in performance, exploring how new techniques open up social and ritual spaces. In the context of this research, he focuses on redefining what constitutes "technically advanced," where virtuosity gives way to the ability to choreograph relationships, resonance, and collective experience.

Nikita Berezko is a Lithuanian artist living in the Netherlands and working with performance, live coding, VJing, choreography, and noise music. His work explores failure, noise, and meaning-making through glitch, bodily exhaustion, text, and misused technology. A former philosophy student turned performer, Nikita resists coherence and linearity, creating improvised choreo-acoustic works that celebrate the failure of media—aural, digital, and somatic—as a political and poetic act of resistance.

Pepe Garcia - The Destroyer

Pepe García is a dynamic percussionist and a creative mind currently based in the Netherlands. His perception of sound and noise is rooted in finding sonic potential in unusual objects, always seeking meaning in the everyday. He collaborates with ensembles of all kinds and is a founding member of Sea Session’s artistic team. Pepe performs with the New European Ensemble and teaches at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. He is a community trainer with Musicians Without Borders and co-founder of the Sonoro Foundation, which operates in both the Netherlands and Mexico, running programs supporting orchestras, families, and communities. His work is driven by urgency around sustainability and a fascination with transforming sound. His latest project, “The Destroyer,” uses live destruction of household objects—like fridges or microwaves—to offer an immersive reflection on consumption. For Pepe, sound—whether noise or music—is woven into our environment, and how we engage with it mirrors how we choose to relate to the world around us.

Zeno van den Broek - Digital entities installation

The first gen digital entities are the first prototypes of the robotic performers developed for Ways of [ ]. In dialogue with human percussionists, they explore how digital systems can listen, respond, and perform within a shared musical space. Neither fixed instruments nor fully autonomous agents, they occupy a shifting ground between machine, performer, and partner, offering a first glimpse of a new form of musical intelligence in the making.