Materize - Sól Ey (IS)

Materize

The interdisciplinary performance Materize interweaves sound, movement and space. The performers play the wearable electronic instrument Hreyfð, which makes sound with gestures using feedback and sensors. Thus, the performers are simultaneously dancers, musicians and a sound system.

The instrument Hreyfð symbolises the transition of technology merging with the human body — a progression humanity rapidly approaches. The development of intelligent technology is primarily focused on technicality, while its effects on compassion, care and interpersonal connections tend to be forgotten. What happens when technology becomes human? Can technology have an intimate emotional relationship with a human? The title Materize refers to the word “matter” and the formation of the intangible, as well as the Latin word “mater”, meaning mother. But who is the mother of technology, and who will care for her? And what happens when compassion is forgotten in technological development?

Sól Ey

Sól Ey (b. 1996) is a composer, performer and new media artist from Iceland. She makes performances, interactive installations, and designs instruments that combine sound, space, movement, light and the body. Often working with sensors and new technologies, her work emphasises immersion, participation, and social interaction. Currently, her artistic research focuses on the possibilities of the human body when extended with electronics or objects.

Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam x Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam

From March 25 to 30, the Plein Theater and Cat Smits Company present the fourth edition of the International Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam!

Since 2022, Queering Puppets Festival Amsterdam has offered a stage to queer perspectives through groundbreaking forms of visual theater, object theater and puppetry. This quirky festival defies the norm with a motley and bold program full of exuberant, visual outburst from the Netherlands and abroad.

The theme of QPFA 2025, CREATING BODIES, challenges us to see bodies not as just given, but as something that is constantly being created, shaped and defined — by ourselves, by others, by systems and structures, both political and cultural.