Public sharing Bau AIR The Grey Space with Diane Mahin

Diane Mahin will share the outcome of her residency at Bau
About this Event

Research
During the residency Diane worked on her new performance GASP, which she is developing together with instrument inventors initiative as part of the Nieuwe Makers Traject of the Fonds Podiumkunsten. GASP is a physical and vocal performance that starts from a simple premise: an inhalation.

We see five figures inhaling in order to speak. Normally, an exhalation follows: a word, a sentence, a scream, an action. In GASP, however, the people evolve into figures in which every form of exhalation — including the voice — is withheld. They remain suspended in an unfinished impulse. Everything comes in, but nothing can come out. The entire performance becomes a build-up without release. What begins as an inability slowly shifts into another way of being. This turns the people into hybrid beings who continue to search relentlessly for movement within this new reality.

Public Sharing

During this public sharing moment, Diane will present the first raw results of her research.

Diane Mahín (b. 1993) is a Dutch-Iranian performance maker and sociologist. She makes performances in which sound and physicality are the driving forces. Diane scrutinizes the human body as a material object in order to dissect social constructions. Her works focus on bodysounds (guts, growls, cries, breaths) which she uses to create performative codes shaped by the learned behaviors of an unbearable society. She creates space for the ugliness and darkness of daily life without softening it, sometimes provoking laughter you did not see coming. She studied at Goldsmiths, University of London and Maastricht Institute of Performative Arts, and Sandberg Institute, and her works have been shown in visual arts, theater, and new music contexts.

https://dianemahin.com/