Performance

Hands Made

Begüm Erciyas

March 15 – 16, 2025

ITALIAN PREMIERE

Six shows: 10.30am - 11.45am - 2.30pm - 15.45pm - 17.00pm - 21.00pm March 16, 11.45am: show in English Running time: 45' Tickets Full: €13 Under 30 / over 65 / groups: €9 Students: €6.50 Membership: included with subscription

Our hands allow us to connect with the world and the reality around us, creating relationships of closeness and intimacy. However, our touch is increasingly influenced and mediated by technology, which changes the way we live and relate to others. In the participatory performance Hands Made, hands play the leading role: viewers are invited, in darkness, to observe their own hand and those of their neighbors, isolated from the body. Turkish artist Begüm Erciyas thus investigates the transformations of our relationship with touch throughout history—from manual labor to digital, from the past to the future—in order to rethink and rediscover the sense of touch and contact. A surprising performance.

Begüm Erciyas was born in 1982 in Ankara, Turkey, where she studied molecular biology and genetics. She later studied choreography, and now divides her time between Berlin and Brussels. Since 2015, Erciyas has developed transdisciplinary formats that go beyond the traditional frontal theater box setting, combined with new technologies that define and challenge our sense of collectivity. The struggle between isolation and community is a central theme in her artistic research. Her work has been presented internationally in performing arts, music, and visual arts contexts. Between 2021 and 2026, she is artist-in-residence at DeSingel in Antwerp.

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The performance involves headphones.

Due to ongoing construction, access to the theater is through Viale Alemagna. To avoid the stairs, enter through the gate in the park. The entrance is also accessible to people with disabilities.

Credits

Concept and direction: Begüm Erciyas Sound design: Lieven Dousselaere Scenography: Élodie Dauguet Dramaturgy: Jonas Rutgeerts Artistic collaboration: Matthias Meppelink, Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias, Lieven Dousselaere Voices: Britt Hatzius (EN, DE), Jean Baptiste Veyret Logerias (FR), Rosie Sommers (NL), Anna Rispoli (IT) Tech direction: Guillaume Rémus Production management: Maru Mushtrieva Set realization: Studio Zuidervaart Production: Outline Tour management and distribution: Something Great Co-production: DeSingel (Antwerp), Tangente St.Pölten Festival für Gegenwartskunst (St.Pölten), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), SPRING Performing Arts Festival (Utrecht) Residencies: Kunstenwerkplaats (Brussels), Tokyo Arts and Space (Tokyo), La Ménagerie de Verre (Paris), BUDA Kunstencentrum (Kortrijk) Supported by: Flanders State of the Art and the Tanzpraxis stipend of the Senate Department for Culture