GUT

Diane Mahín

GUT is a durational performance which imagines how humans behave when their bodies are turned inside out. During this experience, spectators come face to face with a man whose intestinal sounds are amplified. His thoughts, actions, communications, movements and feelings are all determined by these visceral noises. In fact, the guthuman can not move nor think without his gut sounds. The more active his guts get, the more vitality he shows. This performative world draws attention to the thin boundary between life and death, conscious reasoning and the subconscious gut, resulting in a visceral and absurd experience. 

Visitors are invited to walk in and out of this durational performance.

Credits
Concept, direction, design Diane Mahín Performance Manuel Groothuysen Artistic advice Fabián Santarciel de la Quintana, Asya Deinekina, Erik van de Wijdeven, Gerben Vaillant Dramaturgical advice Elowise Vandenbroecke Assistance Liz Abels Co-producers instrument inventors initiative x Rewire, Come Together Festival Distributor instrument inventors initiative Special thanks Performance Technology Lab, Over het IJ Festival, Erik van der Paardt, Bart van den Eynde, Sanne van Rijn, Bianca van der Schoot, Selm Merel Wenselaers

About Diane Mahín
Diane Mahín is a Dutch-Iranian performance maker and sociologist. She makes performative worlds in which sound and image are the driving forces. Working with sound reflects her desire to be faced with highly subjective, confrontational and immersive forms of reality. Diane scrutinizes the human body as a material object in order to dissect social constructions, as she wishes to grasp their absurdity and humor. Death and nothingness form the underlying motives of her work.

After her studies at Goldsmiths, University of London and Maastricht Institute of Performative Arts, Diane is currently exploring operatic principles within her practice at Sandberg Institute.

20 april 2024