[DIS]ORDER – The Spectrum of Sleep door Hipsick

Rotterdam Based interdisciplinary crew HipSick is known for its raw, experimental approach using performances, installations and audiovisual experiments to challenge the audience’s perception. HipSick explores the influence of social norms, the construction of identity and the limits of the human body.

[DIS]ORDER – The spectrum of sleep offers a moment in which sensitivity, slowness and ‘begin different’ are not threatened as limitations but as sources of connection and imagination. Hipsick questions dominant social and sensory norms by creating an environment in which everyone can move at their own pece. In a world that keeps becoming louder, faster and more demanding we ask: What if you are also allowed to simply be still?

Our society is built around efficiency, speed and conformity. Often from a neurotypical perspective. Those who do not fit whitin these structures are expected to constantly adapt or are seen as abnormal. In this process valuable qualities are often lost: creativity, sensitivity and the ability to think beyond fixed structures. [DIS\ORDER moves away from these expectations. Instead of offering compensation we create space for different rhythms and alternative ways of perceiving: hypersensitivity is welcome, slow processing is welcome, moments of stillness are welcome. The outside world no longer dictates the pace; the body and mind decide for themselves. Falling asleep is not seen as failure, but as a form of listening: a sign that the body feels safe enough to let go.

[DIS]ORDER – The Spectrum of Sleep creates an inbetween space in which visitors consciously step away from external pressure, stimulation and expectation. You allow yourself to enter a controlled state of drowsiness, or even full sleep; both are welcome and both are part of the work. Through light, sound, voice and movement, we slowly dim the brain and guide the body into a safe state between wakefulness and sleep. Small rituals become new entrances towards rest, focus and recovery.

Concept: HipSick

Gids: Sylvia Weening
Performer: Nadîja Roza Broekhart
Tekst: Nadîja Roza Broekhart, Sylvia Weening
Muziek: @stefanZMK
Geurkunst: Auf Liebe Eingestellt

fotocredit Amanda Harput