NOT TO BE SENSELESS 4 - Journey Through The Senses

INSTRUMENT INVENTORS INITIATIVE ,JOURNEY THROUGH THE SENSES AND REWIRE PRESENT

"NOT TO BE SENSELESS 4"

Not to be Senseless is a playground for the senses, focused on and from the neurodivergent experience, and where concepts connect to consciousness about diverse needs.

‘Not to be Senseless’ is a stage for neurodivergent art with people and pieces that experience and explore neurodivergencies such as synaesthesia, savantism and autism. This accessible event opens up new perspectives by recognising differences in how we sense the world. Organized by iii in collaboration with Journey Through the Senses and Rewire. Curated by Maria Oosterveen.

Schedule:

14:00 Introduction + performance Bjarte Wildeman
15:00 Talk & Q&A with Anita Hubner
16:00 Performance Bjarte Wildeman
Continual Installation April 4-6 by Natalia (Nika) Sorzano

The maximum amount of audience is 50

Venue:

This edition of Not to be Senseless will take place on Saturday 5th April at The Swing in Amare (The Hague) as part of Rewire Festival.

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Tickets:

www.eventbrite.nl/e/not-to-be-senseless-at-rewire-2025-tickets-1292779671799

Natalia Sorzano, installation

Tree trunks, rocks, ceramics, and remnants of pop culture waste come together to form an unlikely musical band in the interactive sound installation ‘Mud and Sticky’.

Natalia Sorzano a Colombian artist based between Bogotá and Rotterdam, working primarily in the forms of mixed media installation encompassing performance-to-video, sculpture, music and painting. In my work I inquire how relations between human and more-than-human species, objects and spaces unfold and how they affect our subjectivity.

Mud and Sticky Band is a sound installation that generates voices and sounds from within. The work examines the interaction of texture, sound, form, space, and material qualities in shaping her desire. It presents this process as a collective, eco-social exchange between bodies, spaces, and matter.

Bjarte Wildeman, performance

Using tension, the body and movement, ‘Striae’ is a performance/installation exploring rigidity through flexibility.

Bjarte Wildeman is intrigued by bodily motion, the physical experience, altering these experiences and biohacking, and researches (mostly) through performance-installations.

Anita Hubner, talk (DUTCH ONLY!)

Neurodivergent psychologist Anita Hubner will contextualise the Not to be Senseless program with a presentation about neuro-inclusivity and mental-health. This talk will be in Dutch.

Anita Hubner is a psychologist that had a psychosis herself. Her psychologist told her, when she was 21, she never would become a psychologist but she pushed through and made it her specialty to write and talk on an international level about neuro-inclusivity and mental-health.

https://anitahubner.nl/english/

The Event - "Not be Senseless #4"

By the Curator – Maria Oosterveen :

Not to be Senseless was a bliss to organize and work together with Rewire Festival. And what an edition it was. Wildeman was truly an audience puller. And this both in the literal and figurative sense. We had to decline audience as the venue reached max capacity during his performances, Hubner was an amazing and engaging lecturer who really got people’s attention and had them participate in a very lively discussion on the (lack of) acceptance of neurodiversity in all levels of society. A discussion I had to bring to a halt as we were exceeding the time I had booked for her.

Having had such a great experience this year I can’t wait to curate next year’s collaboration with Rewire and iii.

Photographs by Pieter Kers