Slow Wanderings
How can we collectively reclaim space to slow down and imagine new just worlds together? Join us every Friday afternoon in January, when artists Müge Yilmaz and Sondi will activate the exhibition space through their works.
Müge will host open hours for The Adventures of Umay Ixa Kayakızı—a feminist science fiction library. She has spent years collecting more than 250 books by female, trans, and non-binary writers (sometimes under male pseudonyms) written in a speculative framework about possible future worlds. During these hours you can consult with Müge for book recommendations tailored to your interests and borrow a book from the library in consultation with the artist or you can simply treat these hours as a read-in to come and read books in the space.
Parallel to the open library hours, Sondi will activate her expansive video game installation through a series of listening sessions and collective moments of rest. “How Can We Dream If We Don’t Sleep?”
A guided session of storytelling, collective daydreaming, deep listening, and napping facilitated by Sondi.
Our culture requires that people of colour present themselves as extraordinary performers, athletes, or entertainers to exist in the public realm. This culture of constant productivity robs us of our right to rest. This session is a refusal. We gather to reclaim rest as a right, idleness as power, and dreaming as liberation. Rest is not incidental—it is political. Its deprivation is not random—it is systemic.
Inspired by Audre Lorde’s declaration that self-care is an act of “political warfare,” and Tricia Hersey’s Rest is Resistance, we hold space for stillness. In stillness, we heal, rebuild, and dream. Together, we take a collective pause, nurturing both our individual and collective imaginations to resist the forces that deplete us. Come lie down. Drift away. Let your dreams breathe life into infinite futures.
Friday 10 January, 16:00-18:00 — open library hours
Friday 17 January, 16:00-18:00 — open library hours and storytelling and deep listening session by Sondi: How Can We Dream If We Don’t Sleep?
A contemplative session of audio-visual storytelling and collective rest. Through personal narratives and fictional encounters, this experience delves into the themes of Mbombo: Dream Echoes, inviting reflection on the transformative power of dreams to shape infinite futures.
Friday 24 January, 16:00-18:00 — open library hours and deep listening session by Sondi w/ DJ Faustin
How to become orientated when feeling lost? Rhythmic Visions centers the navigation of black identity through sound. Inspired by afro-futurism, its an artistic manifestation of diasporic travels through space and time. A reinterpretation of cultural visions and sounds, towards imagining spaces of belonging
Friday 31 January, 16:00-18:00 — open library hours and deep listening session by Sondi w/ artist S*an
Tickets: visitors can drop in and join with a regular ticket to the exhibition.
Sondi is a new media artist from Germany, born in Cameroon and based in the Netherlands. Her work is deeply rooted in her identity as a person of the diaspora and acts as a conduit to unravel the intricate and intimate layers of identity, belonging, ownership, and heritage. Her artistic process centres around the concept of worldbuilding, creating virtual environments where memory, ancestry, and imagination enter into being. In these virtual dreamscapes, she examines new modes of being, using the power of imagination as an instrument of liberation.
Müge Yılmaz examines in her work the paradoxes around the concept of protection with a focus on community, survival and belief (faith). Through performances, photographs, and installations she creates immersive environments inspired by feminist science-fiction. Following the concept of three ecologies for observing the mental (subjective), societal, and environmental developments in a parallel method, she uses these mediums as tools for envisioning potential futures.
Faustin is a Dutch/Antillean DJ and artist who uses sound to explore identity and emotion. Known for his genre-blending sets at top (queer) venues like SPIELRAUM, De School, Garage Noord and Club Raum, he draws from his heritage and community to craft immersive experiences. Beyond the booth, Faustin curates events and A/V performances, including cccriojo on Operator Radio, where he reimagines cultural narratives through sound.
