Last weekend Words are all we have
Sunday 30th of July is the finissage of the exhibition Words are all we have at Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem. With performances of Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen, Lukas Simonis & Natasha Taylor and Pernille Lonstrup.
In 1956 the BBC asked Samuel Beckett to create a radio play (drama), something he never did before. The radio play became “All that fall”, that was aired on the BBC radio for the first time in 1957, so exactly 60 years ago.Maddy Rooney, a seventy year old woman that exists of “twohundred pounds of unhealthy fat”, is on her way to the station of Boghill to visit her blind husband, as a surprise for his birthday. On her way to the station she meets some fellow villagers. The trip doesn’t go as planned….
For the exhibition ‘Words are all we have’ Nieuwe Vide asked a group of artists to respond to a radioplay called ‘All that Fall’ of Samuel Beckett.
Illustration: Trik
Photos: Bogdan Andrei Bordeianu
Artists: Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen, Matthias König, Lukas Simonis & Natasha Taylor, Marius Bruijn and Pernille Lønstrup.
start Finissage 13:00u
Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen | Voices not Bodies
Pernille Lonstrup and Joost Verhagen | The Fall (how to navigate by the moon when there is too much artificial light)
Lukas Simonis and Natasha Taylor | Nipping One’s Frock “a wordy performance”