COKO Space hosts a series of events. Partially curated by the team itself and partially external by others. We focus on Art, Performance, Design and Politics.
COKO SPACE comfortably hosts up to 100 guests and offers everything you need for a seamless experience.
BUST explores the femme chest as a site of memory, power and resistance through dance, punk music and wearable installation
We warmly invite you to the second Happening of our Dissident Bodies series and celebrate the space first year anniversary of COKO Space, on the 24 of September:
What stories does a chest carry?
Some are visible on the skin or clothes: traces of struggle, transition, and affirmation. Others remain hidden beneath the ribcage: embodied memories of love, fear, grief, and rage.
BUST investigates the femme chest as a contested body zone, shaped by history, intimacy, and power. Drawing on punk’s disruptive energy, the work opens a personal, political, and sensorial archive. Two performers move through shifiting landscapes as explorers in an archaeological site, revealing constructed, wild and poetic terrains. Breath, lungs, and heart become their compass for navigating and unfolding these layered stories.
BUST is a multidisciplinary performance by Anna Riley-Shepard and Maria Pisiou, created in collaboration with punk duo Persobag and visual artist and ceramicist Natalia Manta. The work brings together dance, punk music and wearable installation, combining practices of bodily archive, raw punk sound, ceramic and metal work.. Together, these elements create a visceral landscape where the chest becomes both intimate territory and a site of political and embodied resistance.
Duration
1 hour
Doors open at 8:00 PM
Performance starts at 8:30 PM
*Language no Problem
*This performance contains loud sound and may be distressing for some audience members.
About the artists
Anna Riley-Shepard, she/they (NL/USA) is a Vermont-born interdisciplinary performer, maker, curator, neuroscientist, and queer ecologist based in Amsterdam. She holds degrees in cognitive neuroscience & dance from Harvard University, a certificate in sustainable development from Oxford, and completed professional dance training at Compagnia Zappalà Danza (IT). As a performer, she has the pleasure of performing with Tanzhaus Basel, Ogmia Dance Company, Cie Joachim Schloemer, Mayke van Veldhuizen, TerazNow Dance Theatre, Iris Woutera Co., and more. She co-directs the queer ecology arts group Otherwise Projects and works with the river health organization Pulsaqua.
Maria Pisiou (she/her, NL/GR) is an Amsterdam-based dancer, choreographer, researcher, and educator. Her practice creates poetic landscapes through movement, text, and video, exploring imagination, invisible relations, and alternative ways of experiencing the body and the world. She works primarily with improvisation, instant composition, and choreographic scores, treating the dancing body as a fluid archive.
She is the co-founder of LostMovement Collective, a research-based dance company, and her choreographic work has been presented internationally. As a performer, she has collaborated with artists including Marina Abramović, Julyen Hamilton, Byström Källblad, and Iris Woutera.
Credits
Concept, Choreography & Performance
Anna Riley-Shepard & Maria Pisiou
Composition & Sound Design Personbag
Lana Harris & FiFi
Wearable Sculpture & Set
Natalia Manta
With support from Cultuurfonds, Tanzhaus Basel, DANSLAB Noord, Sky Studio