Fast Forward 2024

The artists Celine Daemen (*1995) and Laura Kuusk (*1982) don’t know each other. One of them was trained as a director at the institute of performative arts in Maastricht, the other studied visual art in Tallinn and Annecy. The two will come together during the festival, each with two of their pieces, for the first time in a ‘parcours’.

With INSIDE, Daemen will show an immersive installation for one audience member, which was created in 2018 as her graduation project in Maastricht and with THE OPERA OF THE FALLING, a mini-opera performed for the first time in 2019, which the audience experiences through VR-glasses. With a strong emphasis on musicality and atmosphere, Daemen creates worlds in which people are looking for something or someone to hold on to. The unconscious seems to be her starting point for a journey that includes disintegration, chaos, beauty, melancholy and hope.

In her work, Laura Kuusk investigates processes that make people behave in certain ways. Her starting points are the image, the spatial surrounding and the human body. For this, she regularly also works with performing artists such as Üüve-Lydia Toompere and Siim Tõniste (s. SUPERSOCIAL). In DEAR ALGORITHM, she creates a confusing atmosphere in a modern suburban office building, while in SOCIAL BODY she also uses VR-glasses to whisk the audience away into a little study of everyday movements.

INSIDE
Direction Celine Daemen

Music Felipe Hoyos Design Antony van Gog / Production Marita Hamers / Camera Cor Booy / Costume Kathleen Hilbers / Sound Gert-Jan Van Stiphout / Music recording and Mixing Gino Bombrini / Violin Mimi Jung / Cello Diego Hernández / Technique Carlo Lenssen / Play Helene Vrijdag / Schwim Training Emilie Andrien / Coaching Peter Misotten, Benjamin Vandewalle
Produced by: CineSud, Limburgs platform van filmmakers in Co-Production with: Via ZUID, talentontwikkeling podiumkunsten Limburg and supported by: Stichting Edmond Hustinx, Stichting Kanunnik Salden/Nieuwenhof and Apollo Fonds, Thanks go to: Toneelacademie Maastricht

THE OPERA OF THE FALLING
Concept & Direction Celine Daemen
Art Director Aron Fels / Composition Amarante Nat
Vocals and Play Sterre Konijn / Libretto Olivier Herter

Sound Engineering Wouter Snoei / Engineering Special Sound Daniël Berends, Franscesco Robustelli / Character Rig Louise van Putten / Producer Cas Ketel / Coaching Romain Bischoff / Illustration Ronja Ida Weia / Graphic Desgin Mees Walter / Marketing Marita Hamers / Consulting Karel Janssen

Great thanks go to the contributors, professionals and patients of Mondriaan GGZ.
Produced by MCEM in Co-Production with VIA ZUID and Cultura Nova, together with Mondriaan GGZ,
with the support of VSBfonds, Edmond Hustinx Stichting, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Brand Cultuurfonds and Kanunnik Salden Nieuwenhof.

DEAR ALGORITHM
Concept, Direction & Editing Laura Kuusk
Choreography Üüve-Lydia Toompere
Performers Laura Cemin, Üüve-Lydia Toompere, Siim Tõniste

Costume design Laura Kuusk & Laura Cemin / Camera & Color Grading Alis Mäesalu / Light Design Carlos E. Lesmes / Sound Design Indrek Soe / Music Yiorgis Sakellariou „Everything Emanating from the Sun“ aus der Reihe „Corollaries“ Crónica (Portugal, 2016) the work is made in the frames of Crossover (Mooste, MoKS) / Graphic Design Indrek Sirkel, Ott Kagovere / Text Laura Kuusk / Consultant for Text Piret Karro / Voice Over Laura Kuusk (EST),Triin Kerge (ENG), Natalja Rusinovskis (RUS)

Thanks to: Hammerhub Tallinn, photography department of Estonian Academy of Arts

SOCIAL BODY
Concept & Directing Laura Kuusk
Choreographer & Performer Üüve-Lydia Toompere

Music Lakker „Tuk Tuk“ / Video Production MEDIT (The Centre of Excellence in Media Innovation and Digital Culture)

Thanks to: Arnis Balcus, Brian Gillikin, Sander-Kalle Somma, Camille Laurelli