Julian Hetzel’s Sculpting Fear

SPRING Utrecht Presents

These days, there’s an app for everything: for the weather, for finding love, for finding the way home. No need for anyone to get lost, be alone, or get wet. Everything is under control. Everything is in the Cloud. In spite of today’s total transparency, the great unknown remains a mystery. And that is something we fear. We fear the unknown, strangers, the future… Sculpting Fear is a visual performance in which Julian Hetzel tries to find a form to express these fears. And so he literally creates a storm.

SPRING and Julian Hetzel are in a two-year partnership, with support from the Performing Arts Fund’s Nieuwe Maker Subsidie. As a follow-up to the installation-performance STILL (The Economy of Waiting) in 2014, Hetzel is now making Sculpting Fear as a performance and a series of interventions in public space.