Melisa Diktaş, Ping-Hsiang Wang & Eli Mathieu-Bustos RIGHT ABOUT NOW

Melisa Diktaş, Ping-Hsiang Wang and Eli Mathieu-Bustos on the program at Right About Now Festival !

The Kurds say, “Speaking is dangerous for us, so we dance.” That dance is a way of fighting and assumes a specific need, motor, strength, resistance and hope. For THE UNTAMABLE CREATURE WITH THE FLOWERED DRESS, Diktas went in search of that engine within herself. What comes out of it? Where does it take her?

Immersed in the memory of what should have been a banal train ride – but turned out to be a violent event – with HAVE A SAFE TRAVEL by Eli Mathieu-Bustos, we discover the first procedures of an oppressive system.

In RETINA MANEUVER, Ping-Hsiang Wang delves into his digital archives to uncover his inexplicable obsession with the iconic pop song Girl On Fire… The deeper he digs, the more memories surface of his time in the Taiwanese army a decade ago.

MAP is a partner of RIGHT ABOUT NOW Inc (Amsterdam). During WIPCOOP 2023, Melisa Diktas (Amsterdam), Ping-Hsiang Wang (Berlin) and Eli Mathieu Bustos (Brussels) still presented their work as a Work In Progress in KVS during WIPCOOP 2022.

Detailed program Right About Now Festival @ De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam to follow later!