Rizoom presents: “I… Declare… Bankruptcy!”
Talent development platform for multidisciplinary creation Rizoom curates the guerilla office-core event “I… Declare… Bankruptcy!” featuring three projects:
Myra-Ida van der Veen – LIPTICK
Vocalist, multimedia artist and electroacoustic instrument builder Myra-Ida van der Veen presents LIPTICK. A vocal performance for two voices and Liptick machines: motors that tap the lips, muting and mutating the voice in real time. The performance emerges from an artistic research investigating how machines can manipulate and extend the anatomy of the voice, searching for a delicate balance between external control and natural vocal expression.
Aslı Nur Mahmutoğlu – The Math Class
The Math Class is a live poetry and pop music performance disguised as a mathematics lecture disguised as a sassy drama act. Switching between Turkish poems, hyperpop, memes, emotional breakdowns and classroom instructions, Aslı Nur Mahmutoğlu turns the stage into a collapsing equation where seriousness and absurdity constantly interrupt each other. The performance moves through hard cuts, wrong answers, projections and sudden emotional shifts, asking whether meaning is something we solve or something we survive.
Lupita Reggiani
Lupita Reggiani investigates the architectures of everyday life, from workplaces to digital environments, revealing the often invisible systems that organise how we communicate, perform, and relate to one another. In her performance piece Conditionner she reads and interprets selected dialogue from The Office, in an absurd and musical score, exposing the performative qualities of workplace communication. Ordinary gestures, repeated language, and office rituals become material for reflection, making visible the subtle forms of categorisation and behavioural conditioning that shape contemporary life while asking what new possibilities might emerge when these structures are disrupted.
