Fuck You Friedrich - International Women's Day at WORM

Final edition of our yearly Nietzsche-bashing party, this time focusing on the worldwide rise of conservatism, populism and machismo muscle-flexing. Tonight some great performers and musicians take the stage to give you their personal response to the Donalds of this world!! Watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkMXBGLEwGU

Note: please come in time - Bo's part starts 20:30 sharp and is very quiet, so if you come later you might have to wait...

Bo Jobse
Bo is a graphic artist whose work has one central theme: the all-encompassing experience of nothingness. Bo’s interest and background in philosophy and psychology are evident from the titles of each work. She reflects with us on nihilism and the many emotions and thoughts that come with it. Our nihilist pur sang Friedrich Nietzsche would have been impressed . .

Stephanie Pan
Stephanie Pan is an amazing vocalist, performance artist, maker, and multi-instrumentalist currently based in The Hague. Her work is visceral, passionate and intense, and often explores the limits of the body and voice. At the root of it all is the notion of pure communication; finding a form of contact with the audience which is stripped of social expectations and distractions, that speaks beyond the conventional and social limitations and constructs of language.

A. Liparoto: Andrew a Strong Courageous Warrior (Short Film)
A. Liparoto (1987, USA) makes work that researches vulnerability, subjectivity and the borders of life and performance.
During 9 months Liparoto carried out a performance-based research – or you might say a 9 month performance, re-imagining a sense of self with the question: “What if 28 years ago they had said ‘it’s a boy’?” What is the effect of performing gender in daily life? Is there a way to understand gender beyond discourse? How is identity constructed? She left womanhood to subsequently transform into a male and androgynous person.
The project, entitled I Am Becoming, culminated in the film that will be screened tonight, showing the domestic sphere of Abigail and Andrew, versions of them performing normative gender identities. In the film, Abigail and Andrew are increasingly becoming one, alternating between male and female. Which of them is real?
Another way for Liparoto to document this research and performance was the book, Andrew Has His Period (Anecdotes of Androgyny). The book will be on show on this evening.
The artist will be present at the screening! To talk about this project and its impact on life – then and afterwards.
https://www.facebook.com/aay.liparoto?fref=ts

Sweat Tongue
A four-piece from Rotterdam/Groningen (drums, guitars, vocals, fans and other household appliances) bringing their own take on the idea “rock band”. Shards of broken rock & roll rub against one another, their intensity and sense of urgency are overwhelming, their overcharged rhythms make you dance in strange ways and their lyrics tell of decay, sex and dark obsessions. They’re free and noisy but totally in control.

Emma Buysse: Send Me Dick Pics Bigger Than Your Dignity
A music theater show about gender roles and vulnerability. Suzy Lee, a tough YouTube vlogger/rapper meets soft and sensitive Romeo on-line.

Moderator: Josephine Bosma

“Woman has so much cause for shame; in woman there is so much pedantry, superficiality, schoolmasterliness, petty presumption, unbridledness, and indiscretion concealed” (Friedrich Nietzsche, from “Beyond Good and Evil”, 1886)

Friedrich Nietzsche is widely regarded as a brilliant philosopher. So was this brilliant thinking or just his personal frustration?