Annelieke Holland

In Performing the Archive, Annelieke acts as a tape DJ, layering her mother's recordings with echoes from the family timeline. Through the exploration of home footage, past, present and future start to collide. As the daughter of a performing musician looks towards her mother —the first to lay eyes on her— a hall of mirrors unfolds. Is a recording always a performance towards the future? On one cassette, her mother —at the same age Annelieke is now— speaks with a fortune teller, a medium who tells her of things yet to come. How to perform the archive in order to invoke it? Is the performer of the archive a medium themselves?

During COMETOGETHER, Annelieke shares experiments from her research into a family archive, repetitions within a family history, a mother-daughter relationship, recordings of stage art and ways of performing the archive.

Performance: Annelieke Holland

Annelieke Holland is a performer and audiovisual artist based in Amsterdam. After graduating from The Institute of Performative Arts in Maastricht in 2017, she initiated theatre and film projects in The Netherlands and Morocco, collaborating with Queens Collective Marrakech, Dar Bellarj and ÉSAV Marrakech, while also mentoring students at the MBO Theaterschool in Rotterdam.

In 2023, she completed a master’s in ‘Artistic Research in and through Cinema’ at the Netherlands Film Academy. Her work, which sits at the intersection of theatre, film and expanded cinema, has been showcased at the European Media Art Festival, Festival Cement, Le 18 Marrakech and Eye Amsterdam, among others.

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