recent projects
unborn (2024)
Theater production
Concept, composition, art direction, performance
In collaboration with Ulrike Quade Company
UNBORN is an intimate theatrical concert blending ambient, neo-soul, R&B, hip-hop and indigenous rhythms. Inspired by the infinite middle of transformation, UNBORN invites you to travel with OTION through his inner universe. Surrounded by emotions of confusion, melancholy and joy, UNBORN creates a moment of reflection and urges you to initiate your personal transformation process. Venture through a world of text, music and projections with the guiding question, “Am I breaking down or unfolding?”.
Tijd Zal Ons Leren
(2021/2022/2023)
Theater Production
Composition, text and performance
In collaboration with Romana Vrede and Het Nationale Theater
Tijd Zal Ons Leren is a 3-year long deep dive into the history of heroic resistance during the Dutch trans-Atlantic slave trade where OTION and actress and writer Romana Vrede created a podcast and talk show based on the historical research, music and narratives that they created during the time of the covid pandemic. This all culminated in Tijd Zal Ons Leren (Time will tell) the theater production directed by Erik Whien, where OTION joined Romana Vrede in telling a personal story that connects the past with the present and expresses hope for our collective human future by focusing on untold stories honoring and naming our ancestors.
Continue this thread
(2023)
Fashion Exhibition
Composition and audio artwork
In collaboration with Roberto Luis Martins and The Amsterdam Museum
The Amsterdam Museum and in-house curator of fashion and popular culture, Roberto Luis Martins, have collaborated with Amsterdam fashion designers Karim Adduchi and Tess van Zalinge to create a new exhibition: Continue This Thread. Through more than a hundred textile objects, the exhibition showcases the power of handcrafting. For the healing space of the “Continue This Thread” exhibition, OTION composed “Frekti Singi” (Woven Song in Sranan Tongo: his ancestral language) by weaving together vocal patterns and ASMR sounds of crafts into an auditory quilt. In addition to this work, he composed a series of short instrumental audio stops to reflect the theme of 3 other the other rooms.
