SIX ZINES IN SIX DAYS (2022)
During my residency at the Performing Arts Forum in St.Erme, France, I dove deep into my personal connections to queer ecology. This resulted in a series of six zines made in six days, that hold the fluctuating and entangled complexity of my queer body in a ecological world. You can download the .pdfs for print here!
THE HERBARIUM (2021-...)
a library of weeds - the small, partial and wild stories of more-than-human attempts of collaborative survival. An ongoing collecting of plant-human relationships. An encounter with the fringes, the unruly edges of anthropocentric infrastructures... The HERBARIUM is a performance series in which humans collaborate with weeds, finding resistance strategies, resilience, community and interspecies friendships. Click here to get to Project website.
PROJECTS (ongoing)
1MPOSTR (2020)
1MPOSTR began as an Alter Ego, based on ecological anxiety and the mythological figure of the seer Teiresias. 1MPOSTR peaked in a concept album, somewhere between ambient and storytelling, called „Evolutions“ that was self-pro- duced in a whirlwind of less than two weeks. You can listen to the album on spotify/soundcloud.
Toni Kritzer (they/them), born in 1998 in Germany, is a trans*disciplinary performance artist based in Amsterdam. Their artistic practice is committed to queer ecology, hybridizing various disciplines and modes of storytelling: from dance, performance, writing and publishing, to to now establishing a garden collective in Amsterdam. In all their works, there flows an undercurrent of utopian thinking. contact: tonikritzer@gmail.com /@tonikritzer
PROTOTYP with collektif:capslok (2020)
On stage, side by side: a human and an artificial intelligence. A human being and a machine. A consciousness and an intelligence. An evolutionary product and an invention. PROTOTYP is a two-person play for a human and a machine, a search for symbiosis in the virtual space of the livestream. I am a founding member of collektif:capslok, a collective committed to the idea of the theater as a utopian laboratory, rehearsing the posthuman.
LEISURE LIFE (2022)
By our presence, we shape space. In this project of queer terraforming, walls bend, floors crumble, air liquifies - we follow our desire for cohabitation with humans, more-than-humans, creatures, critters, beasts. Monstrosity permeates the space, Softness enveloping bodies. The monstrous, the hybrid, the queer can be reclaimed as a strategy of empowerment and liberation in sympoeisis. A garden arises Performance with: Tea Verschoor, Jorien Werkhoven, Charlie Smeets and Ronja Wijtvliet at Academy for Theater and Dance Amsterdam, December 22.
PUBLICATIONS /WRITINGS
Kein Hexenwerk is a magazine for and from the Academy of Theater and Dance, funded by DAS Research: an attempt to archive, critique and make different working methods accessible. Most of all, it offers a space: for questions, for research, for unfinished thoughts - a space for collective thinking and generous sharing. I am the main editor of this quarterly publication.
IPOP is a IPOP’s Queer Feedback Sessions is an artistic pedagogical research project at and beyond the Academy of Theater and Dance, Amsterdam, exploring theories and methodologies for queering performance feedback. For their zine, I wrote a piece on Response-ability.
(WASTE)LAND (2022-23)
In the ecological crisis we find ourselves in, we need to become earthly/terrestrial again - rooting ourselves in the ecosystems. In the performance (WASTE)LAND, I bury my body in the ground up to the neck to re-imagine soil by becoming a part of it - a deep connection forged through previously unknown proximity. The performing body becomes an offering to the soil, an invitation to the many microbes to sequester the carbon we are made of, an attempt at relating deeply with what sustains life itself. (WASTE)LAND is an encounter between the soil and my own body in a state of co-transformation.
THIS IS THE SKIN OF A KILLER, BELLA
a lecture perfomance on whiteness and the fossil fuel industry: This story has as many starting points, monstrously growing like Hydras heads: a linked in profile I found online with my name - a Tony Kritzer working for the greenwashing department of British Petroleum. It can also begin on the 15th of March 2019, when the first global schoolstrike for climate justice coincided with the fascist terrorist attack on the community of the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch, Aotearoa (New Zealand). Or we can start the story in my teenage bedroom, filled with posters of the teenage romance movie Twilight.
TRANSOPOCENE
Welcome to the TRANSOPOCENE: a week’s study of how to live and thrive in a cis economy. In this ongoing End of the World, the cistem is crashing, and we’re throwing an afterparty in the ruins of gender. SNDO graduating students Juli Frodermann and alex blum along with Toni Kritzer invite one another and other conspirators into workshops and hangouts that center trans* curiosity, rest, rhythms, play, friendship, and joy. TRANSOPOCENE is our small world in the making - a speculative experiment for a temporary community of critical friends, lovers, and intimate strangers. We explore what a trans* optimist time and space might sound and feel like, gathering everyday aesthetics, eerie rhythms, and gender euphoric somatic practices that make collective flourishing possible.