Pankaj Tiwari - PaperPlanes II

PaperPlanes II is een performatieve installatie door Pankaj Tiwari en Nick Verstand. Een poëtische en politieke reflection op klimaatverandering, verschillende werkelijkheden en de relatie tussen het Westen en het Mondiale Zuiden. Voor sommigen staat het vliegtuig symbool voor overconsumptie, maar voor anderen is vliegen een droom die misschien nooit uit komt. Wie mag er vliegen en wiens dromen moeten aan de grond blijven?

Deze voorstelling is Engels gesproken.

The audience, surrounded by 15,000 paper planes - symbolizing the 15.000 …

PaperPlanes II is een performatieve installatie door Pankaj Tiwari en Nick Verstand. Een poëtische en politieke reflection op klimaatverandering, verschillende werkelijkheden en de relatie tussen het Westen en het Mondiale Zuiden. Voor sommigen staat het vliegtuig symbool voor overconsumptie, maar voor anderen is vliegen een droom die misschien nooit uit komt. Wie mag er vliegen en wiens dromen moeten aan de grond blijven?

Deze voorstelling is Engels gesproken.

The audience, surrounded by 15,000 paper planes - symbolizing the 15.000 euros required from non-EU citizens to be able to apply for a European student visa - is confronted with the ethics of flying in a globalized world. Questioning capitalist conceptions of environmental justice through installation, storytelling, poetic reflections, and experimental sound, Paperplanes is a quest. 15.000 paperplanes are folded by Pankaj over a year and a half. Together with the audience, the performance crafts a future; forgotten, mutated, and eaten by the capitalist structure of the West and vomits out seeds of hope and solidarity.

About Pankaj Tiwari:Pankaj Tiwari is a contemporary artist, performance maker, and curator from Balrampour, India. He is currently based in Amsterdam. His works bring Eastern perspectives into the Western discourse on socio-political issues. Sustainability and connection to the East are some defining topics in his work. Pankaj is also the recipient of the prize 3Pachage Deal(21-22), from Amsterdam Funds for the Arts. Between 2020-23, he works as a curator for Gessnerallee Zurich. He currently works as an Artistic Director for Stichting Studio Current, Amsterdam. Paperplanes is produced by Stichting Studio Current.

In the past and present, Pankaj's works have been invited and supported by multiple festivals and production houses. A few of them include Kaaitheater Brussels('24), DeSingel Antwerp('23,24), SpielArt Munich('23), Holland Festival('23), Belluard Bollwerk Fribourg('23), wpZimmer Antwerp('23), Zurcher Theatre Spektakel Zurich ('20 & '23), radialsystem Berlin ('22), Santarcangelo Festival Italy('21) performingborderslive UK('20) etc.

**About Nick Verstand: ** Nick Verstand is a contemporary artist researching human perception through spatial audiovisual compositions. His autonomous installations and live performances investigate the frontier between the material and the immaterial and are created through collaborative design processes aimed at breaking down social boundaries. The resulting intuitive experiences, and co-creations of the artist and audience, generate a hypnotizing environment for the subconscious mind. Nick has exhibited and performed at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Shed (NYC), Museum of Contemporary Art (Shanghai, CHN), National Opera & Ballet (NL), STRP Festival, Design Society (CHN), Paris Couture Week (FR), SXSW (USA), Dekmantel Festival, Art Central Hong Kong, MTV VMAs (NYC), Design Museum Gent (BE), Le Guess Who (NL), Iceland Airwaves (IS), Dutch Design Week and collaborated with artists such as Iris van Herpen, Björk, Lykke Li, Eefje de Visser, Charlotte Adigéry, Doja Cat, Fatima Yamaha and Suzanne Ciani. Dezeen selected his project AURA as one of the top 10 art installations of 2017, alongside Olafur Eliasson, Ai Weiwei, and Anish Kapoor.