In the mouth of the room #3
Line up: Wantee Teelapa, Lars Koning, Isidora Goncić, La Uyi Ihasee | Curated and hosted by Sunni Lamin Barrow

What does a room hold?
And what does it refuse?

What does it swallow and amplify?
And if the room speaks back, do we answer?

In The Mouth of the Room is a 70-minute performance program where poetry, music, and movement unfold as a continuous act of listening. Across four artists, the stage becomes a living space, one that breathes and responds, and all who enter it become part of it.

Each artist contributes to a shared composition where nothing fully begins or ends, but instead circulates. A voice lingers. A sound stretches. A body interrupts or absorbs. Works bleed into one another, forming a single evolving landscape for the evening.

The “mouth” is both metaphor and mechanism: a site of speech, but also of consumption and transformation. The room listens as much as it speaks. Together with the audience, the artists shape what can be said and shared, and what remains unsaid and unshared.

This is an invitation to experience performance as something shared and unstable, where boundaries between disciplines dissolve, and where the audience is not outside the work, but within it.

Line up

Samaa Golderlyne
Lars Koning
Isidora Goncic
La Uyi

Curated and hosted by Sunni Lamin Barrow

About the artists

Isidora Goncić is a theatre director and performance artist. Her work starts from things that are difficult to leave alone: family stories, shame, illness, intimacy and the strange ways we learn to behave around them. She works with personal material alongside familiar stories and images, taking them apart and putting them back together slightly wrong. She is interested in who gets to look, who gets looked at and what happens when the thing being watched looks back.

La Uyi Ihasee is a mixed trans child of the arts, stating their presence as a Norwegian-Nigerian physical theatre performer and choreographer.

With their queer-mixed kid intelligence they enter myths, folklore and legends from North Europe to West Africa and in-between, to fabulate the many complex experiences of being "the other". Detoxing the methods of Commedia dell arte, Clown and mask through the forms of Butoh, Drag, waacking and Iha practices.

Lars Koning (he/him) is a Dutch playwright and poet. In his writings he often creates protagonists who are stuck in their own imprisoned minds and rigid loops of thinking, sometimes to the point of ridicule but never without empathy. Central to his work is the strong underlying hope to break free.

Wantee Teelapa is a multi-talented Liberian/Lebanese singer-songwriter, visual artist and fashion designer based in Amsterdam. She creates eclectic afrofusion music. With her deep, characteristic vocal timbre she translates serious subjects into a mystical and liberating experience. Her experiences as a young woman with a history of war and migration behind her, have inspired her to write about taboo’s. She’s now breaking the silence around her story through music, storytelling and fashion.