OTION presents W.A.V.E
Part Two: Riding The Wave
OTION returns to Felix Meritis with the second part of W.A.V.E: We All Vibrate Eternally, an immersive performance series exploring the invisible forces that connect sound, body, and space. Through sound, movement, and ritual storytelling, OTION transforms live music into a fully spatial experience, where sound is not just heard, but physically felt.
The series unfolds in three chapters: Floating on the WAVE, Riding the WAVE, and Making the WAVE, each offering a distinct atmosphere within a continuous journey. Together with a sound artist and dancer, OTION activates three essential elements: space, voice, and body, guiding audiences along a path from listening, to embodiment, to creation; from surrender, to safety, to play.
Beginning with vibration as sound moving through space, shifting into vibration as sensation within the body and beyond, W.A.V.E explores how stillness, presence, sound, voice, song, movement, and dance shape both individual and collective experience. Join us on May 29th and step into OTION’s inner landscape, where vibration becomes a shared language and performance transforms into a living field. After the performance, join the After WAVE to relax, enjoy drinks, and dance to our live DJ. Whether or not you joined the first wave, you’re welcome in the second.
Line-up
OTION
OTION (Guillermo Armand Blinker)- Theo d’Or (VSCD) and Amsterdam Art Award (AFK) nominee (2024) Designer Award (VSCD) nominee 2025 – is a multidisciplinary artist who works with vibration as material. Through sound, movement, and ritual storytelling, OTION creates immersive experiences that attune bodies, spaces, and communities to one another.
Water is both source and guide in OTION’s practice, a living metaphor for continuity, memory, and transformation. Like water, his work moves between states: sonic, physical, spiritual. It flows through liminal spaces where identity softens, time expands, and new ways of being become possible.
Rooted in a background of choreography, dance, songwriting, and composition, OTION composes environments rather than performances. Harmonized, loop-based vocals form dense soundscapes. These vibrating layers carry the audience into ceremonial states, where movement, breath, and listening become acts of collective tuning.
OTION’s poetic lyricism weaves themes of transformation, spiritual connection, and a queer way of sensing the world. His work does not aim to be consumed, but entered: a shared frequency where personal and collective healing can unfold.
Jordan Achiano
Jordan Achiano is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spanning dance, photography, film, and performance serves as an exploration into the human essence. His practice is rooted in endless conversation with the self, navigating the specific complexities of a Surinamese identity within a Western landscape.
Everything Jordan creates begins with S.S.M.A. (Sacred Sexual Movement Alchemy), a personal ritual used to tap into a deep, creative reservoir. By honoring the “internal feminine,” he accesses a bridge to a raw, ancient power, allowing ancestral codes to surface as snippets of insight within his modern movements and visuals.
Jordan’s aesthetic is a deliberate fusion of the old and the new; a bridge between heritage and the future. Through the mastery of light, shadow, and form, he constructs “sacred spaces” that invite the viewer into a state of profound clarity.
Ultimately, Jordan aims to move beyond the superficial constraints of the modern world. He doesn’t just want you to observe his work; he seeks a deeper understanding of himself through the act of creation, inviting the audience to connect with their own souls instead of their time. He leaves you with a feeling that only you can define.
SHARC
SHARC (Siem Schellevis) is an artist director focusing on artist identity and art direction, and working at the intersection of body, perception, and meaning. He works with art made in short arcs, or as he calls it: SHARCS. His work does not aim to explain or persuade, but to reorient experience.
Drawing from martial arts science, ancient wisdom traditions, philosophy and hip hop, he designs immersive services that allow the artist to speak directly through and to the BODYMIND rather than the intellect.
SHARC is known for translating complex human mechanisms into simple, felt experiences. His direction is minimal, precise, and experiential. Less narrative. More signal. His work spans across film, music, language, spatial design, and embodied practice. SHARC invites artists to develop a healthy distinction between the self they have and the spirit or soul that they are, so they may create vacuums in spacetime where people can explore meaning, fulfillment and connection.
Worked with national and international acts like The Child of LOV, Cameron McVey, Illnoledge, Alain Clark and Khadijia El Kharraz-Alami, among others.
Stillness is not an aesthetic in his work. It is the medium. Stillness First.
Lucas Benjamin (DJ for the after W.A.V.E)
Lucas Benjamin is an Amsterdam-based DJ, promoter and true musicologist. He’s been traveling across the globe for the past 20 years, first competing in dance battles and then as a DJ. Lucas started his own record label in 2017 called Wicked Wax, co-founded a music platform named Steppin’ Into Tomorrow, is part of the infamous Ghetto Funk Collective, and organized plenty of club nights, live concerts, documentary screenings & gives music lectures and DJ classes. In short, a person living music in its totality.
Riding the Wave is immersion. Where “Floating On The Wave” invited stillness, this chapter enters motion as response, as rhythm, as lived time. Participants are invited to feel how vibration organizes experience from within, how the body begins to mark, stretch, and become time itself. Here, the body is centered as a vessel and spaceship. A fleshy, messy, mysterious architecture through which frequency is generated, shaped, and received.
Rhythm becomes a way of navigating, creating the wave and the frequency band through which reality is sensed and made. Sound and body meet in an intimate exchange, a continuous dialogue between the tactile and the ethereal, where each movement gives form to the invisible.
This second part, ‘Riding the Wave’ explores the balance between control and surrender, revealing both the limits and freedoms of inhabiting the body as an instrument. It asks: what happens when we not only follow rhythm, but become the shifting currents dancing in the endless oscillation between matter and vibration?
Would you like to attend this program, but don’t have the means to pay for a ticket? Send an email to info@felixmeritis.nl, we can work something out.
Note: By booking this ticket, you agree to potentially be photographed during the event.