Together with Space Is the Place we welcome you to the pre-party of the (Former Night of Absurdism (30 December at Paradiso, Amsterdam) named An Absurdist Intergalactic Night. An evening that shakes up our relative lives. Or does it mirror our lives? The question is what is more absurd: the world on stage or outside? Expect a celebration of the arts with performance, literature, music, and, at last, free jazz bingo.

Maartje Wortel
She was expelled from the school of journalism because she made up too much of her stories. Since then she has developed into a writer that is considered characteristic for her generation. She received the Anton Wachter Prize for her debut Dit is jouw huis, and she was awarded the BNG Literatuurprijs for her novel IJstijd.

Maartje Wortel spoken word

Diane Mahín
Diane Mahín is an Iranian-Dutch performance maker and sociologist. Sound is the backbone of her work: a single bodily sound can open up an entire world. Within that world, she deconstructs socially learned behaviors and reassembles them into performative material. Her work makes palpable just how absurd and destructive everyday human actions can be.

Diane Mahín performance

Lukraak
Lukraak plays post-silly music of crooked beauty. Using alto saxophone, drums, flutes, found objects as well as their own bodies and limbs, they produce something of their own with a haphazard attitude. Now they will present Inconsistencies: a live mixtape-ish concert-happening featuring 100 micropieces of 16 seconds each, performed in one continuous 30-minute set.

Lukraak: Marcus Wärnheim alto sax/objects, Thomas Jasper drums/objects

Freejazz Bingo
‘Bingo is a game of chance in which each player matches the numbers printed in different arrangements on cards. The game host draws balls at random, marking the selected numbers with tiles’, says Wikipedia. Laura Fortuin leads this special Ex-bingo with musical accompaniment by Jacob Maskell-Key (drums) and Luc Ex (acoustic bass, samples).