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meeting alice, 2010 an intriguing docu-fiction video with and for “our” old artists from amsterdam, berlin and bangkok. “you are old,” said the youth, “one would hardly suppose that your eye was as steady as ever; yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose. what made you so awfully clever?” (from: ‘alice’s adventures in wonderland’, lewis caroll) idea/directing/photography: kimmy ligtvoet and christina flick. actors: mariska akkermann, luc boyer, jacob flier, ritluecha kumpreawpan, yodchai meksuwan, sineenart pothiwate, werner riemann, günther schanzmann, ursula Werner. composer: valentin von lindenau. special thanks to: niels v. koevorden, oscar stiebitz, moradokmai theater troupe, embassy of the netherlands in bangkok, christa flick. steinboden – vime art collective. we, kimmy ligtvoet ( born 1981, NL) and christina flick (born 1982, DE), graduated from the mime school in amsterdam (AHK) in 2008. as actresses we perform with different theatre groups in (inter-)national theatres and festivals as schwalbe, carver and moradokmai theatre troup. in 2007 we founded ‘steinboden’, a vime art collective that creates performances and video installations using images and movement as a foundation of our own theatrical language. vime art is observing daily life and directs it into a theatrical, surrealistic turning point in order to strengthen the absurdity which anyway lies beyond the realistic situation. it is in love with the genre documentary and always searches for its manipulation on the border of reality and fiction. it aims to turn any truth upside down and disorientate the viewer. a special focus in vime art lies on the composition of the video frame. there might be a main action in front while the camera watches the little moments in the back, which pretend to be unconscious. video as opposite to film, is used in order to strengthen the low budget character of producing vime art for the sake of a playful, spontaneous, fake-bullet shooting. mime describes the interest in the physicality of a character as well as in the timing and space composition, and attempts to play with these elements in a theatrical way. vime art observes the behaviour of its characters, and frames it in a way that the humour, absurdity, beauty and cruelty of everyday life can be found. the character might be put into a situation/ landscape with which it can struggle, even if the struggling occurs senseless. it will show the trying of the character to achieve something he/she assumes as ‚good’ and every failure will be celebrated honestly. the actor and the situation might be innocent in the beginning, as well as the vime artist pretends to be, but they will get into a complice-relation with each other. there will be at least one twinkle in one’s eye. vime art can be shown in the frame of an installation, to express its theatrical approach. the viewer should leave the vime art piece and turn into an unexpected street on his way home or sense the meaning of the word ‘blue’ while walking back. contact: mtgsteinboden@gmail.com
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