For the opening night of CurieuCity#3 Marolles, art and activist collective Tools for Action, led by visual artist Bambí Benkö in collaboration with Anton Markov is invited with their work Signals 5.0. “Signals 5.0” is a participatory and experimental performance using red inflatable wearable light sculptures, that participants can switch ‘on’ and ‘off’. The performance is the result of a workshop with students from the master Dance (Insas) in collaboration with citizens & performers from the Place Jeu du Balle, creating poetic metaphors and activating collective memories of Place Jeu du Balle that appear and disappear from sight. The performance also allows us to observe scientific concepts like emergence: how people, space and light relate to each other and patterns and rhythms between spontaneity and order unfold.
Signals was originally developed as a performance in Berlin to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the the German Revolution of 1918/19. After this new performance versions appeared in various places around the world.
Tools for Action / Bambí Benkö
Bambí Benkö is a queer non-binary artist with a focus on ceramics, sculpture, participatory performance and political intervention. Within their sculptural work, they are interested in creating intimate liminal sci-fi environments and intimate ritualistic spaces. In 2012 they founded Tools for Action, under which collaborations are realized with artists, activists, hackers, choreographers, shifting between activist, cultural and educational contexts with the aim of developing new forms of assembly and political action. For three years they are invested in dream work as a collective healing practice and to open the radical imagination.
Anton Markov is a sound artist and engineer from Bellarus collaborating with Tools for Action since 2023.