HEXENEINMALEINS
Immersive installation & Music theater performance
2024
Hexeneinmaleins is an immersive work that centers around the female data gap, invisibility, and exclusion. But more than everything it is about refusing to succumb to the erasure in a collective and shared manner.
Formats
- Music theater performance
- Immersive installation
- Site-specific adaptation (festival / exhibition context)
Credits
Concept, installation, libretto and direction: Nazanin Fakoor
Composition: Andrea Tarrodi, Claire Bourdet, Francesca Cavalli, Hildegard von Bingen
Musical arrangement: Ivan Yohan
Sound: Karl Ancia
Production: Fyllenia Grigoriou
Anna Nuytten, mezzo-soprano
Andrés Soler Castaño, bass
Claire Bourdet, violin
Production: wpZimmer and C-TAKT
With the support of: The Flemish Government, workspacebrussels and Werktank
Formats
- Music theater performance
- Immersive installation
- Site-specific adaptation (festival / exhibition context)
Credits
Concept, installation, libretto and direction: Nazanin Fakoor
Composition: Andrea Tarrodi, Claire Bourdet, Francesca Cavalli, Hildegard von Bingen
Musical arrangement: Ivan Yohan
Sound: Karl Ancia
Production: Fyllenia Grigoriou
Anna Nuytten, mezzo-soprano
Andrés Soler Castaño, bass
Claire Bourdet, violin
Production: wpZimmer and C-TAKT
With the support of: The Flemish Government, workspacebrussels and Werktank
Press & Links
"Freedom for women to define themselves, to trust their own knowledge instead of waiting for others - men - to be good enough to think of that. Witches, as we know them from stories, are the model for this. Though they may be mostly a figment of the imagination, Fakoor evokes them here very convincingly by conjuring with stunningly simple means - light, space, image and sound."
Pieter T'Jonck: Hexeneinmaleins: Vrije Heksen, Pzazz 05/2024
“Fakoor shares a research on the imagery associated with witches. Nature images flow into urban landscapes and poetic in-between zones such as a choreography of lines drawn by women's hands in the sand, or transparent foil that creates a surreal reflection like a kind of mirage in the forest. Atmospheric strings, silence and high, low, old, young, hesitant and confident voices speaking different languages alternate. The voices try to put fears into words, or ideas about witches. Hexeneinmaleins is a tuneful insight into a working process that will later be developed into a new performance.”
Natalie Gielen: Working Title Festival: a room with a view, Etcetera 08/2020
A room with a view, audio-visual summer programme by Workspacebrussels:
"Freedom for women to define themselves, to trust their own knowledge instead of waiting for others - men - to be good enough to think of that. Witches, as we know them from stories, are the model for this. Though they may be mostly a figment of the imagination, Fakoor evokes them here very convincingly by conjuring with stunningly simple means - light, space, image and sound."
Pieter T'Jonck: Hexeneinmaleins: Vrije Heksen, Pzazz 05/2024
“Fakoor shares a research on the imagery associated with witches. Nature images flow into urban landscapes and poetic in-between zones such as a choreography of lines drawn by women's hands in the sand, or transparent foil that creates a surreal reflection like a kind of mirage in the forest. Atmospheric strings, silence and high, low, old, young, hesitant and confident voices speaking different languages alternate. The voices try to put fears into words, or ideas about witches. Hexeneinmaleins is a tuneful insight into a working process that will later be developed into a new performance.”
Natalie Gielen: Working Title Festival: a room with a view, Etcetera 08/2020
A room with a view, audio-visual summer programme by Workspacebrussels: