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The Dordrecht Museum invited Bea de Visser in the context of Urban Explorers 2013, to make the the first public rehearsal, as a preliminary to the art project. Thereby was she kept to the audience component of the hiking expedition format as existing within the framework of Urban Explorers. By way of introduction to the art project Bea de Visser wrote a scenario for two actors in the role of composer and writer, with absurd dialogues on language and sound, with a nod to the social media, contemporary composed-, pop- and film music. The city bell-ringer performed at times when the particular piece was discussed in the dialogue. As resounded The Stranglers, the introduction tune of James Bond and the key composition of Erik Satie, that would be later staged in the Pear-shaped Exploration Project.

 

Pear-shaped Explorations by Bea de Visser is a series of staged and recorded performances that investigates how we are positioned and where we find ourselves in the social space. Bea de Visser focuses on the act of listening. The introduction of the project Bea de Visser works with countertenor Oscar Verhaar and two pianists Javier Krohn and Erwin Rommert Weerstra. It is the examination of 'Modest Doubt' which is performed here for the first time in a study stage. As part of her research on language and sound as a method of communication, incomprehension and manipulation she invited two guests for her program within the context of a performance expedition, Nicoline van Harskamp with 'European English Exeercise' and Z'EV with a 'Lulaby' on carillon.

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