30 years of 1646

On Saturday September 6 from 19:00 to late, you are warmly invited to celebrate with us! The evening will start with the special opening of To carry this body of an animal forth by Olof Marsja and after that, we will party at GR8 with performances by Niko Kallikainen, Tori Wrånes and Dick Verdult!

Note: The opening at 1646 is open for all, the party at GR8 is sold out.

CELEBRATION PROGRAMME

🕖 19:00–22:00 – Exhibition Opening
To carry this body of an animal forth by Olof Marsja
Location: 1646
With festive drinks and snacks by Nordic caterer Ehta.

🗣️ 20:00 – Speeches by
Clara Pallí & Johan Gustavsson (1646), 
Saskia Bruines (Deputy Mayor of Culture, The Hague),
Eelco van der Lingen (Mondriaan Fonds), 
Louise Bonbeck (Swedish Vice Ambassador)

🎉 22:00–02:00 – Anniversary Celebration 
Location: GR8 – Prinsegracht 8, The Hague (300m from 1646)
Performances by: Niko Hallikainen, Tori Wrånes, and Dick Verdult (a.k.a. Dick El Demasiado)

Niko Hallikainen is a performance poet and novelist born and based in Helsinki. His performance work has been presented in Performa Biennial in New York, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Black Box Teater in Oslo and Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki.

A tender look into a powerful undercurrent that operates reality from behind. Purple curtains, hung by organised crime, move in the warming winds, backlit by moonlighting. This is nothing short of magical. The magic is lesser-known, as non-stop construction noise and police lights distract human perception.

Prima Materia is a book written to be performed by a bard. The bard travels around the world citing otherworldly messages that were channeled through the bard’s voice. This is sort of a magic show. The bard appeared to be unproductive for years, while their throat was being shaped into a shifty horn by a spirited wind, it took its time. Now it asks of us: when’s the last time you were overwhelmed by two big ideas at once? The absence of a force bigger than the creator can be a misconception of time, too.

Tori Wrånes (b. Kristiansand, Norway; lives and works in Oslo, Norway) is a transdisciplinary artist and vocalist who fuses music, performance and sculpture to construct alternate realities. Her immersive, often otherworldly environments challenge perception and redefine traditional performance spaces, creating new rituals and dreamlike constellations. For the performance at 1664, she will be doing a collaboration with Joar Renolen whom is a musician and composer and a long time collaborator of Tori.

Dick Verdult (Eindhoven, 1954) is a renaissance multitasker. Always starting from the visual arts, he is a filmmaker, novelist (only in Spanish), sculptor. As a musician he is known as Dick El Demasiado, and has become cult by now for his work distorting cumbia from 2000 till now. He considers his latest music has Celulitis Popular, because it shakes and shivers, it is human and – by Eurostandards – considered ugly. He has 5 cd’s, 2 vinyls, and an Argentinian band.

At the moment he is making a long film together with El Demasiado, a Mexican Lucha Libre fighter who named himself after Dick. The two Demasiado’s are making a film about popular distortion, and filming in Mexico and Japan. In San Francisco a vinyl will be pressed and released this summer of Dick’s first cd No Nos Dejamos Afeitar, from 2002. Dick Verdult has had many interactions with 1646, amongst others his soloshow in 2014 which was called Inklusief Dick Verdult.

🎧 DJ Walden Affairs will provide the tunes to dance the night away!

Walden Affairs is a project space for contemporary art. Its physical space used to be around the corner from 1646. Since leaving its premises, it continues to show up in stories, gardens, sleepovers, bonfires, nightly walks, warm embraces and sweaty dances.