ABOUT 

HERTER works as a writer, artist and performer. In 2020 he graduated from the MAASTRICHT INSTITUTE OF PERFORMATIVE ARTS. In that same year he was artist-in-residence at DE SCHOOL, in AMSTERDAM. In 2023 he won the GRAND PRIZE at the VENICE FILM FESTIVAL, together with STUDIO NERGENS.

In his work he explores language as dramatic action and as a speech act in the spatio-temporal domain, resulting in rhythmic thought exercises of searching speakers. With text, they look for meaning, grip and a sense of belonging in a ever-shifting world. Thus he creates an atmosphere of melancholic contemplation. As a writer, HERTER works on a modular text repertoire of non narrative drama.

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INDEX
︎︎︎ SONGS FOR A PASSERBY
︎︎︎ DAT HET WAS..
︎︎︎ NOWHERE
︎︎︎ THANK YOU 
︎︎︎ OPERA OF THE FALLING



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SONGS FOR A PASSERBY

Awarded the VENICE IMMERSIVE GRAND PRIZE at the 80TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL!

SONGS FOR A PASSERBY is a virtual reality opera about our tenuous relationship with the transitory nature of reality. How does one relate to a world of things that are passing? Are we a part of it? Or are we just looking at it? And what about the body – is it something that we are or that we have?

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SEPT 2023

VR OPERA

STUDIO NERGENS
SILBERSEE
MUZIEKGEBOUW
VIA ZUID

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DAT HET WAS..

More information coming soon. For the Dutch version of this page, click below.

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2022 / 2024

INTERDISCIPLINARY

PERFORMING ARTS FUND
DUTCH FOUNDATION FOR LITERATURE
‘T BARRE LAND

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NOWHERE

NOWHERE is a research project, developed in the context of Muzieklab of Intro in Situ and VIA ZUID and Chronosphere lab of De Effenaar Smart Vennue. Director CELINE DAEMEN, together with writer OLIVIER HERTER, Composer STERRE KONIJN and art director ARON FELS, explored the physicality of virtual space and the role of music in creating immersive experiences. 


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JUL 2021

VR OPERA [RESEARCH]

INTRO IN SITU
VIA ZUID
(MUZIEKLAB)
EFFENAAR SMART VENUE

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THANK YOU

Performance piece made a artist-in-residence at club and cultural vennue DE SCHOOL AMSTERDAM.

THANK YOU is a presentation by Bors de Klerk & Olivier Herter on their research on ‘measurable time’ versus ’emotionally-experienced time’. In other words: clock time versus momentum. The research will be conducted in isolation, residing in our beloved s105 from 13 January until 13 February. Boris and Olivier will create the performance by use of a time-bound medium, within a time-bound process. They’ll pre-determine and schedule their entire work process hour by hour. A rigidity that’s slowly becoming the norm in arts. The duo wants to find out what forms of freedom and what kind of momentum can arise within a process as rigid as this.

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JAN 2020

PERFORMANCE

SUBBACULTCHA
DE SCHOOL AMSTERDAM
APOLLO FONDS

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OPERA OF THE FALLING

The OPERA OF THE FALLING is a musical and visual research on the loneliness of sorrow. The piece is a virtual reality opera, inspired by interviews with people with a psychological vulnerability. With psychiatry as a mirror to the world we live in, the experience calls for reflection and universal recognition.

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AUG 2019

VR OPERA

VIA ZUYD
MCEM
CULTURA NOVA

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