4.INSTRUMEN II

Chaja Hertog graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2005 with InstruMen, inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s musical hell, an experimental video triptych featuring musical instruments fused to musicians as body extensions, played by their movements and weight – InstruMen II is a sequel to this.

For Bosch Parade, Chaja and her partner Nir Nadler now blur this line between musician and instrument even further with ‘the extended version’ InstruMen II, a floating musical installation featuring musicians playing their extravagant instruments with the choreography of their bodies. A performer with drums on his head, a musician who hangs from his strings to play his string instrument, a wind player who has to play entangled in tubes hanging down. – together, the InstruMen use their living bodies to make the kingdom of the dead resound. 

Credits:
InstruMen II
Project van Hertog Nadler (Chaja Hertog & Nir Nadler)
in collaboration with Luca Andrea Stappers

Performers:
Chaja Hertog 
Nir Nadler
Luca Andrea Stappers
Sasha Agranov (snaar instrument)
Tommie Freke (blaas instrument)
Roya Hes (acrobaat/rad)
Mika Nadler

gesubsidieerd door het Cultuurfonds