FOPSA 2026 PROGRAMME
EXHIBITION: Hannah Meijer, Symbols, Markings, Ode to the Bark Beetle
Saturday May 30 20:00 - 23:30
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Sunday May 31 14:00 - 17:30
Hannah Meijer is an artist who likes to bring multiple disciplines together by integrating materials, techniques and themes that result from conceptual research as well as intuitive processes. Her sculptures and installations often are symbolically charged, and finding balance is paramount.
The tension between seemingly opposite elements plays a central role in her works. Contrasts such as organic versus machine-made, natural versus artificial. and coincidence versus premeditated, come together in a new meaningful whole.
During FOPSA’26 she will show multiple series of visual works: Symbols, Markings, and Ode to the Bark Beetle.
INSTALLATION: Lioba Benold & Parker Herzberger, Konturen der Sehnsucht
Saturday May 30 20:00 - 23:30
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Sunday May 31 14:00 - 17:30
Konturen der Sehnsucht explores longing as a sensory experience. A large, soft textile body moves through air and sound, creating a constantly shifting environment. Visitors are invited to enter, lie within, and experience how vibration, movement, and proximity translate emotion into form.
The work reflects on fragile forms of togetherness: on restlessness, collective presence, and the search for connection in unstable times. Language dissolves into rhythm, breath, and sensation.
A collaborative work in progress by Lioba Benold and Parker Herzberger
Saturday, May 30 20:00 - 23:30
Kleine Berg 62 Eindhoven
FOPSA’26 - DAY 1
photo credits: Bea Álvarez
Naomi Collier Broms & isabel wang pontoppidan - Miss Radio
Miss Radio is a telepathic duet. Drawing from historical and current questions around 'technological progress', the performance imagines the human body as a living receiver - a channel able to sense and amplify the inner thoughts of others. What emerges is something between a seance and a satellite transmission - a sci-fi exploration of what it means to listen to the ones we love.
Naomi Collier Broms is a Swedish-American theatre-maker based in Amsterdam. With a background in writing and performance, her practice currently explores themes of connection, futurity, and the circuitry between bodies.
isabel wang pontoppidan is a Danish-Chinese artist, writer and jewellery maker living in Amsterdam. Her practice is multi-pronged, combining writing, performance, research and jewellery in a variety of overlapping cross sections. Thematically, she utilises her own life as a point of departure to investigate the interlocking of identity, culture, aesthetics and storytelling. Her hands inform her head and her head informs her hands.
Anuschka Loose - solo
Anuschka Loose is a dancer and choreographer.
Her work departs and feedbacks itself through somatic sensitivity,
imagination and poetic writing as dialogue partners
to meet, not make sense of the body.
At this year’s FOPSA she is performing a solo improvisation evoked by
sounds and silences of the body, the temptations of rhythm and gravity
and other wordless beauty.
Iara Pérez Pelli, Maddi Guraya, Abel Ton - Tengo mucho de vos en mi
A multidisciplinary creation in which we observe the movement performer (Maddi Guraya) go through the process of hiding and embracing a large fabric which surrounds her. Supporting her movement, a guitarist (Abel Ton) is responding to every action she takes.
A conversation across disciplines centered around the experience of grief.
Sunday, May 31 14:00 - 17:30
Kleine Berg 62 Eindhoven
FOPSA’26 - DAY 2
photo credits: Jazz Explorer
Jaap Blonk - Kurt Schwitters: Ursonate
Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) wrote his “Ursonate” or “Sonate in Urlauten” (“Primordial Sonata" or “Sonata in Primordial Sounds”) over ten years, from 1922 to 1932. It became a 30-page work in invented words.
The “Ursonate” has a structure similar to that of a classical sonata or symphony. It has become a masterpiece of sound poetry, and it simply has to be included in FOPSA.
Jaap Blonk is the ultimate performer of the piece. He has performed it all around the world literally hundreds of times since the 1980s. In his own words: “The “Ursonate” was on a shelf in my room and, every once in a while, I took it out and read sections of it aloud. This went on for about two-and-a-half years, and by the fall of 1981 I realized that I almost knew the piece by heart. Looking back at this from a much later time, I am very much aware of the benefits of this slow process of internalizing the piece. I gradually and intuitively formed my own interpretation of it, without any pressure from outside and without any knowledge of versions of it by other performers.“
Sarah Prescimone - Draft
This mortal system became overloaded, a continuously overwritten slate dense with inscriptions. The psyche absorbed each individual experience. A collective entanglement was pre-coded.
'A draft, in draft is a temporary movement sketch' - the first experiment of it will be presented at Fopsa.
photo credits: Barend Verijzer
Cactus Press & Sarmistha Bose - Memories, or Ashes
In this participatory performance, artist and writer Sarmistha Bose invites the audience to read together in a dark space, where bodies disappear, and only voices remain alive.
With the rise of authoritarianism, as more and more voices of dissent are pushed to the margins, she explores collective memory as a site of resistance against erasure.
In the performance, language takes on many forms. It shapeshifts between words, voices, sound, absence, and memories. It takes the audience on a journey through poetics, violence, loss, mourning, and resilience - as the work asks,
where do the burnt ones go?
do they belong to memories, or ashes?