Associate artist at the Holland Festival – 2024
For the 2024 edition, the direction of the Holland Festival invites Christiane Jatahy as their central artist.
Since 2003, she has been developing a body of work that explores the borderlands between artistic disciplines, between reality and fiction, between actor and character.
Growing up in Rio de Janeiro as part of the “Coca-Cola generation” during the dictatorship of the 70s, she lived through the profound political changes of the 80s, which also demonstrated the importance of art and music in social revolution. These experiences awakened her political awareness and the need to respond to reality as an artist.
Sharing her life and work between Brazil and Europe, she is a “severe and acute observer of the violent cruelty of our world”. In her work, she addresses the contemporary and historical realities of her native country, as well as burning global issues such as post-colonial heritage, racism and inequality, and migration.
Christiane Jatahy sees her role as associate artist as one of stimulating and generating new artistic encounters on both a small and large scale. In constant complicity with numerous artists – actors, publishers, musicians, translators, designers – whom she considers a family, she has nourished this adventure as associate artist of the Holland Festival with all these encounters, participations and discoveries.
She will also be presenting her own work, including collaborative pieces with these artists, a series of screenings, encounters and an original “in situ” creation, Crossings, a community project conceived for the Holland Festival in Amsterdam, designed to establish conversations between people who would otherwise have little chance of meeting. The themes of home and belonging resonate here, notions dear to the artist that run through a number of projects that punctuate his career.
Program
June 04, 2024 – “Au cinéma avec Christiane Jatahy” cycle of film screenings selected by the artist
June 06-08, 2024 – Sacre du printemps (Rite of Spring), film concert featuring works by Christiane Jatahy and Evangelina Kranioti
June 07-09, 2024 – Après le silence (Depois do silêncio), performance by Christiane Jatahy
June 08, 2024 – Meeting with Christiane Jatahy, associate artist 2024
June 15 – 19, 2024 – Crossings, new creation by Christiane Jatahy
June 21 – 23, 2024 – Hamlet, in the folds of time, creation 2024 by Christiane Jatahy
June 23, 2024 – Encounter Christiane Jatahy, Carolina Bianchi, Jaina Leite
Rite of Spring
Igor Stravinsky, Caroline Shaw, Evangelia Kranioti, Christiane Jatahy, Karina Canellakis, Frank Ticheli, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Cappella Amsterdam
Opening night of the 2024 edition of Holland Festival, Amsterdam
Music is usually added to film last, but it is the other way around this evening: two film makers made a film for existing compositions that will be performed live by the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Cappella Amsterdam led by Karina Canellakis.
Brazilian theatre and film maker Christiane Jatahy was inspired by the composition Music in Common Time, by American composer Caroline Shaw. Greek visual artist and director Evangelia Kranioti used Stravinsky’s masterpiece The Rite of Spring as a basis. Both aim to make us think about abuses in our world with their images.
Jatahy, this Holland Festival’s associate artist, made a film for Music in Common Time, a stunning work for choir and orchestra by Caroline Shaw, with material from her enormous archive filmed for various previous projects on locations throughout the world. The Brazilian theatre and film maker lends a distinctively empathic eye to marginalised groups. At the Venice Biennale two years ago, she was awarded a Golden Lion for her oeuvre and praised as ‘an acute observer of the violent cruelty of our world’.
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