One of my favourite composers/performers in the Low Lands – and she collaborated with one of my favourite new music ensembles too. What more can you want?

The Art of Doing Nothing: a Feminist Manifesto is about listening to yourself and the world around you. About saving power to explode with power. It is not about doing nothing. It is a proposal for navigating choice and making sense of your own place in a chaotic world; to not always swim against the current, but sometimes let yourself be carried on the waves. It is a personal vision on how to be wrong, how to sink into doubt, how to embrace the magical space of not knowing.

The piece celebrates soft, ‘feminine’ qualities like intuition, vulnerability and emotionality, and leans into the empowerment and freedom that comes with giving space to them. In a world where these strengths are seen as weak and inferior, The Art of Doing Nothing becomes a necessarily feminist act, a radical antidote to patriarchal norms of certainty and hierarchical power.

Guided by intimate yet absurd texts, Stephanie Pan and Ensemble Klang lure you onto a sonic roller-coaster that dives and soars through lush dramatic song, fragile delicate soundscapes, chaos, feedback noise, and pounding tekno beats.

Concept, music, text & voice: Stephanie Pan
performed with Ensemble Klang

Stephanie Pan – vox, synth, drum machine, effects
Erik-Jan de With – saxes
Michiel van Dijk – saxes
Anton van Houten – trombone
Joey Marijs – percussion
Saskia Lankhoorn – keys, backing vox
Pete Harden – guitars, backing vox