Jesse Strikwerda

In Démontable, our domestic space turns into a world reminiscent of Gulliver’s Travels, invaded by miniature projections of the outside world. “A funny, playful film on the absurd relationship between daily life and global news. The level of media saturation we’re bombarded with creates an absurd distortion and distance between our daily routine and current affairs. Démontable explores this bizarre melange of realities by throwing the two worlds together: attack helicopters shred a newspaper, while a dinner plate suffers a drone strike. They’re a series of attempts to try and understand our world better by playing with its violent protagonists

“A bunch of red herrings is the second collaboration between artists Caz Egelie and Jesse Strikwerda. In this project, they explore new ways of combining theatre and visual arts with experimentation, participation and collaboration. A bunch of red herrings recounts history and art history, the malleability of identity, and it unravels ingredients and structures of a story.“

'It Jonkje', a young cowboy in the Frisian pastures, notices that everything in his world is skewed and imagines that there must be something that's able to set everything right again. He starts his metaphysical quest for that uncertain thing which will provide him with peace.

“A bunch of red herrings is the second collaboration between artists Caz Egelie and Jesse Strikwerda. In this project, they explore new ways of combining theatre and visual arts with experimentation, participation and collaboration. A bunch of red herrings recounts history and art history, the malleability of identity, and it unravels ingredients and structures of a story.“