Line up: With sounds and voices by Susanne Weins (voice), Ralf Peters (voice), Andreas Bauer Kanabas (bass) and Stephan Knies (violin), as well as the cave environments. With performance portraits by Aldo Aliprandi, Marianna Andrigo, Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, Giorgia De Santi, Francesca Fini, Nicola Fornoni, Fenia Kotsopoulou, La Saula, Boris Nieslony, Sara Simeoni, VestAndPage, Maite Weins, Susanne Weins. Original still images by Marcel Sparmann, Fenia Kotsopoulou, daz disley, VestAndPage, and Douglas Quin.
Open: 18:00 - 20:00 hrs
Tickets: € donation
generated as part of the collaborative making of the film STRATA: www.stratafilm.de
February 14 to 17, 2024
4bid Gallery, Overtoom 301, Amsterdam (NL)
The exhibition is open Wednesday to Friday from 18:00 to 21:00 and Saturday from 15:00 to 20:00.
Film screening of STRATA and Meet the Artists at Ventilator Cinema // OT301 on February 16, 2024.
Doors open at 19:00 hrs. Film starts at 19:30 hrs
Tickets €7.- (door) / €5.- (presale see OT301.nl/agenda)
STRATA is the fifth performance art and film hybrid by artist duo VestAndPage (Verena Stenke and Andrea
Pagnes). It is a film of philosophical, poetic action exploring caves as proto-spaces for altered states and sites of
knowledge-making and human becoming. Some of the oldest known examples of human figurative artworks have
been found within the caves of the Swabian Jura in Germany. These are the products of the Ice Age, dating back
33,000 to 43,000 years. VestAndPage convened an interdisciplinary gathering of over 20 artists and scientists to
engage with these unique spaces and places and challenge central ontological and social issues.
A special screening of the film will be held at the Ventilator Cinema // OT301 on February 16.
From February 14 to 17, 4bid Gallery hosts an exhibition reflecting the collaborative process which lies at the
heart of STRATA.
The environment for the audio art installation by Douglas Quin is conceived as a complement to the film. Rather
than recreate the film's soundtrack, the installation focuses on conveying some of the experience of the caves
themselves with audio gathered in situ, from performances to soundscapes. The approach to the audio for the
gallery installation involved drawing from the many hours of location recordings, deconstructing and recomposing
the layers and sonic strata to intimate the resonances of Deep Time and collective consciousness. The
soundscape benefits from daz disley’s elegant sound system, appropriately designed for 4bid Gallery and offering
numerous possibilities for immersive engagement in an intimate setting.
As part of a broader range of inquiry involving archiving and documentation, the exhibition features a range of
multimedia visual elements. These include artifacts from the film and still photographs taken by Marcel
Sparmann during production. The images have been processed by Fenia Kotsopoulou using various printing
methods such as cyanotype, soil chromatography, and image transfer. The hybrid techniques on different
materials and surfaces are a form of ‘artistic stratigraphy’––Illuminating the materiality, affect, and tactility of both
image and the journey of STRATA.
With sounds and voices by Susanne Weins (voice), Ralf Peters (voice), Andreas Bauer Kanabas (bass) and
Stephan Knies (violin), as well as the cave environments.
With performance portraits by Aldo Aliprandi, Marianna Andrigo, Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, Giorgia De Santi,
Francesca Fini, Nicola Fornoni, Fenia Kotsopoulou, La Saula, Boris Nieslony, Sara Simeoni, VestAndPage, Maite
Weins, Susanne Weins. Original still images by Marcel Sparmann, Fenia Kotsopoulou, daz disley, VestAndPage,
and Douglas Quin.