OLIVIER M. HERTER
Olivier M. Herter (1995) works as a writer, performer and interdisciplinary artist.
In 2020 he graduated the Institute of Performative Arts in Maastricht, The Netherlands. In that same year he was an artist-in-residence in renowned club De School in Amsterdam, together with composer Boris de Klerk.
Together with Studio Nergens he won the Venice Immersive Grand Prize at the 80th International Venice Film Festival for the VirtualReality-production Songs for a Passerby.
His work was performed and exhibited in internationally at the Venice Biennale, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, South by Southwest, Eye Filmmuseum and the Dutch National Opera.
As a writer, Herter develops a non-narrative repertoire of texts. With text he creates mental spaces. His works a rhythmic thought excersices of speakers without a plot, with words looking for a foothold in a shifting world. Immersion of the audience into the sound, form and content of text is key his works, whereas a plot, anecdote or fictive narrative is often absent.
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11 DAT HET WAS
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‘t Barre Land
Hard//Hoofd
FIRMA GOTT
08 SONGS FOR A PASSERBY
Awarded the Venice Immersive Grand Prize at the 80 Venice International Film Festival!
Songs for a Passerby is a virtual reality opera about our tenuous relationship with the transitory nature of reality. How does one relate to a world of things that are passing? Are we a part of it? Or are we just looking at it? And what about the body – is it something that we are or that we have?
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Studio Nergens
Silbersee
Muziekgebouw
VIA ZUID
04 NOWHERE
Nowhere is a research project, developed in the context of Muzieklab of Intro in Situ and VIA ZUID and Chronosphere lab of De Effenaar Smart Vennue.
Director Celine Daemen, together with writer Olivier Herter, Composer Sterre Konijn and art director Aron Fels, explored the physicality of virtual space and the role of music in creating immersive experiences.
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VIA ZUID
Intro in Situ
Effenaar
03 THANK YOU
Performance piece made a artist-in-residence at club and cultural vennue De School in Amsterdam.
THANK YOU is a presentation by Bors de Klerk & Olivier Herter on their research on ‘measurable time’ versus ’emotionally-experienced time’. In other words: clock time versus momentum. The research will be conducted in isolation, residing in our beloved s105 from 13 January until 13 February. Boris and Olivier will create the performance by use of a time-bound medium, within a time-bound process. They’ll pre-determine and schedule their entire work process hour by hour. A rigidity that’s slowly becoming the norm in arts. The duo wants to find out what forms of freedom and what kind of momentum can arise within a process as rigid as this.
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Subbacultcha
De School Amsterdam
01 OPERA OF THE FALLING
The Opera of the Falling is a musical and visual exploration on the loneliness of sorrow.
The piece is a virtual reality opera, inspired by interviews with people with a psychological vulnerability. With psychiatry as a mirror to the world we live in, the experience calls for reflection and universal recognition.
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VIA ZUID
Cultura Nova
MCEM