For the third time in a row What You See cooperates with students from the HKU. Nine students of Theatre Design, Graphic Design and Fashion Design explored the festival theme (un)Touchable Bodies and show no less than nine individual works during What You See. From personal fascinations, questions and anecdotes, they created a range of installations, performances and visual work with subjects varying from male-female relationships, self-reflection and intimacy, to fear, abuse and shame. With their work, the students challenge existing norms, break taboos and expose unconscious thought patterns and behavior. Keep your ears and eyes open, because at any moment you may come across such an activist gem.

THEATER KIKKER
18 – 21 Nov | ongoing, during opening times

Would you like to live in my Tuscan village? | Pascalle van Gurp (installation)
toilets
A representation of the duality of intimacy. When is access to your body taken and when do you release it? Monster vaginas vs Tuscan villages.

HET HUIS UTRECHT
Sat 20 Nov | ongoing, 15:00 – 18:00

IEK | Vita de Pater (installation)

studio 1
The moment feeling is expressed it loses its value. IEK is an investigation into the experience of fear, both the burden and the power.

The weight of shame | Gabrielle Swart (performance)
wardrobe
A brand in your memory, a convulsion in your body, a weight on your shoulders. An interactive performance about the search for connection in a world full of judgments and assumptions.

The dearest thing I want to be | Madelief Kok (installation)
studio 2
I confront myself with the hard truth. Because losing yourself in this world can be done so silently that you don’t even realise it.

STADSSCHOUWBURG UTRECHT
Sun 21 Nov | ongoing, 19:00 – 22:00

I am, you are, we look | Tina Helm (performance)
toilets
Whether you call it nature or nurture is up to you, but the fact remains that we, humans, see and judge. This performance questions the looks you receive as a young woman.

A Piece of Inclusion | Jasmijn Piek (installation)
foyer
Here you buy clothes with labels you would rather not be associated with. In doing so, you represent the people who are missed in our community. An attempt by the creator to achieve the diversity and inclusiveness that we in the community so long for.

IN THE CITY

This is not for you | Floren Bloch (installation)
18 – 21 Nov
A handicraft collection for the men I have nothing to do with. A public installation about the sexualisation of female-female relations. A reflection on how negative comments and interactions from the public space can seep into one’s private life and influence the experience of one’s orientation and identity.

I want you to be | Sofie Smits (installation)
18 – 21 Nov
I want you to be, you to think, you to be more aware.

Come a little closer | Ilse van Broekhoven (performance)
Predikherenstraat 32, 19 – 21 Nov, ongoing between 14:00 and 17:00 tbc
A combination of visual work and performance that welcomes you into the world of intimacy and togetherness.

Queering the City of Literature is an initiative of Savannah Bay, which lets you look at your familiar city with different, queer eyes. In June, authors Chris Lomans, Anne Chris van Doesburg and Edna Azulay hung their texts, written especially for this project, on locations in Utrecht that have a personal meaning to them. These routes will return during What You See Festival 2021 and can be walked for free at any time of the day. So check out the routes below and stroll through the city!

Queer the city Utrecht yourself with these route maps designed by Rowena Buur. Or follow the routes by the Google Map links below. You can also listen to the authors’ readings on our podcast Radio Savannah while you walk.

Anne Chris van Doesberg: check the route and listen listen to the reading.
Chris Lomans: check the route en listen to the reading.
Edna Azulay: bekijk the route en listen to the reading.

Can’t get enough? Come to Queering the City of Literature on Saturday 20 November!

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In the work of photographer and filmmaker Jonnah Bron sexuality and intimacy are captured in images. In doing so, she paints a more honest, real and inclusive picture of (female) love and the erotic between two people. During and after What You See Festival, part of the exhibition ‘Where We Did It’ can be seen in the foyer, revealing traces of the intimacy of the night. This exhibition is complemented by photographs of her and her lover. One of the works will also be hanging in Kikker permanently!

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