27.02.25, Sanie Irsay, Radio Svitlo, 24 Hour Swan Lake

On Thursday, February 27, Radio Svitlo will activate 24 Hour Swan Lake by Sanie Irsay as part of Eye becomes water at Het Paviljoen. The video will be activated with readings by Radio Svitlo, music, zine sales, drinks and more.

The video work is a 24-hour long delayed version of Bolshoy Theatre's 1984 rendition of Swan Lake ballet. Irsay marks three years since the start of the war in Ukraine and uses the instrument used by the USSR in times of turmoil to point out the slow emergencies we live in.

Sanie Irsay (b. 1996) lives and works between New York, US and Amsterdam, NL. Irsay’s practice draws from her heritage as an Uzbekistan-born Crimean Tatar, the indigenous people of Russian-occupied Crimea.

Eye becomes water

Drawing from the history of Het Paviljoen, which served as the waiting room of the historic Bijloke hospital for pregnant patients, Eye becomes water is an exhibition and public programme that explores waiting not as a passive or neutral act, but as one that engages multiple temporalities, bodily experiences, and power dynamics.

Curated by Daphné Charitos, Natalija Gucheva, Abel Hartooni, Yasemin Köker, Temitayo Olalekan and Jean Watt.