Program creator Vera Bonder and co-curator Sunni Lamin Barrow selected a work during Fringe Festival in Amsterdam that deeply touches on humanity – and that became Aline Olmos Steler’s work – The Origin of the Future, on view at KVS during WIPCOOP 2025. Aline won a spot at the What You See festival and developed […]
Aya Sabi & Alphonse Eklou Uwantege ON #LAFS10 And an Honorable Mention for Işıl Biçakçi in Amsterdam. This fall you will meet Aya Sabi and Dounia Mahammed with their research on intergenational comfort as well as Alphonse Eklou Uwantege’s poetic reste(s) during Love at First Sight. Shown last year as a Work in Progress, soon […]
In a world where everyone has to keep up and everything is supposed to be perfect, it becomes increasingly difficult to be vulnerable. People struggling with mental challenges often go unheard or experience a high barrier to talking about them. The World of Hilair breaks the silence with a personal monologue on mental well-being, based […]
The 2023 edition of WIPCOOP brought together an international company of promising artists. What happened to their work after that? We look back at the trajectories of Melisa Diktaş (Amsterdam), Eli Mathieu-Bustos (Brussels) and Ping-Hsiang Wang (Berlin), and how their careers continued to grow after WIPCOOP. Melisa Diktaş is a dancer and maker who develops […]
Trilogy of Satiety: Part 1 – The Rediscovery of the Future – Oracular Practices In the first chapter of her Trilogy of Satiety, Aline Olmos Steler seeks oracular insights in a place we rarely look: vaginal discharge. Not to shock, but as an act of recapture. Where others find meaning in coffee grounds, stars or […]
Experience the power of survival and expression in That which is untamable (The Untamable Creature in a Flowered Dress) by Melisa Diktaş. An immersive performance that embodies the essence of struggle, survival and resilience, rooted in the rhythms of Kurdish movement language. In That Which Is Untamable: criatura, an endless battle unfolds, embodied by an […]
KIDNAPPED – A Training Ground for the Brutality that is Coming is een indringende en verrassende theatervoorstelling die onze tijd onder de loep neemt. What if the world we live in is actually a shared political hallucination – shaped by neoliberal ideas, colonial legacies, and a system that makes us believe there is “no alternative”? […]
Pieces of a Man is a monologue by David Labi about his father. A performance that balances between storytelling and stand-up comedy. In English.
Melisa Diktaş, Ping-Hsiang Wang and Eli Mathieu-Bustos on the program at Right About Now Festival !
