Space Media Festival is an initiative by Modern Body Festival and DEZACT architectural platform. The festival took place in 2016 in Taiwan, Taipei and consisted of multiple small- to large-scale activities focusing on avant-garde experimentations traversing fields of art, architecture and urbanism. The festival took the form of a 9-day workshop-festival, where 4 invited artist-architect teams led participants in creating new works,…
Site specific Installation by Sharon Houkema Hut covered with earth and grass, solar panel, wind turbine, leds, audio, plexiglass, 2016. This artwork was commissioned by Into Nature Art Expedition and Land Art Contemporary in association with Drents Landschap and on view from 2/7/2016-1/9/2016 at Kampsheide in Drenthe. Kampsheide is a nature reserve – home to…
Orlacs Hände, silent film by Robert Wiene (1924) Live music and soundscapes by Stephanie Pan (toy instruments, baby synths and objects) and Joris Weimar (prepared piano, clavichord and cello) for the Sounds of Silence Festival (6 February 2016) Reuniting the star and director of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Hands of Orlac is a deliciously twisted…
Audience-interactive performance based on Heiner Müller’s Despoiled Shore. A work of Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris, performed by Stephanie Pan @ Blast Theory (Brighton, UK), 25th November 2015
Belarus Free Theatre presents a two-week Festival of performances and discussions in London featuring some of our most acclaimed original productions, reinvigorated classics and the world premiere of our brand new work, Time of Women. We have spent the past decade excavating taboos on the world stage alongside launching transnational campaigns in defense of freedom…
Singer/Keyboards/Improviser. A new opera by Luc Houtkamp, text from Gertrud Stein’s Tender Buttons. A mix of songs and live improvisation for singer, keys, saxophone, tuba, tap dancer and live electronics. Compositions: Luc Houtkamp Text: Gertrude Stein (Tender Buttons) Musicians: Stephanie Pan – vocals, keyboards Guy Harries – vocals, keyboards, flute, clarinet Peter Kuit – tap dance…
Never The Foxes is a project by Bridget Fiske in collaboration with performer/ creators Stephanie Pan, Richard Causer, Navala Chaudhari and Joseph Lau, exploring new thematic, conceptual and choreographic ideas. Never The Foxes (a series of short scenes in development) has grown out of explorations into subjects of origin, orientation, instinct, nature, death, as well…
What exactly is the ‘modern body’? We are inclined to think of our bodies as limited to what is contained within our own skin, but technology, philosophy, spirituality, religion, and science all challenge this idea. Modern Body Festival (MBF), an intermedia initiative organized by artists / makers / performers Stephanie Pan and Stelios Manousakis, strives to examine the nature…
Aisha is on the run. Forced to flee her village and give birth to her baby girl in the Sahara, she crosses the globe in search of shelter. But to find it, she must overcome the terrible cruelties of nature and man. An epic new legend for the 21st century, created from extraordinary true stories…
Performer/Singer/Composer. New interdisciplinary opera in collaboration with 33 1/3 Collective and Eefje de Visser, about borders, love and Stalin. Storyline Soselo in Siberia is a fairytale. A fairytale with an unhappy ending – if it in fact has an ending at all… A girl named Margarita meets a boy named Soselo. The fall madly in…