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SUMMARY:The Nature of Remembering
DESCRIPTION:Initiated by artist Lawil Karama in conversation with historian Megan Hoetger\, The Nature of Remembering is a group exhibition featuring multimedia research projects that move between interrogation of normative memory politics and co-experimentation with environmental and more-than-human bodies. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition title carries in it two meanings: on the one hand\, nature is evoked\, drawing focus to actants\, actors\, and animacies beyond and beside the human\, who witness\, participate in\, index\, recollect\, foretell\, and haunt historical time. On the other hand\, the idiomatic expression the nature of is taken up as a provocation\, pushing against pervasive ideological and violently enforced notions of remembering and of commemorating.Running through all projects is a commitment to practices of frictioning: engaging technologies against their colonial grain\, and lingering in the affectively\, ancestrally\, archivally\, and forensically intertwined conditions of lived experience and knowledge production. Collectively\, the works ask: Who\, or what\, enframes and enlivens acts of remembering violence\, which have been rendered invisible\, unspeakable\, and unthinkable? \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features work by Samuel Baidoo\, Michèle Boulogne\, Laura Fong Prosper and Tin Wilke\, Lawil Karama\, Aram Lee\, Komtouch Napattaloong\, Bart Seng Wen Long\, and Kaisa Saarinen. \n\n\n\nThe Nature of Remembering also includes an extensive context programme with performances\, talks\, screenings\, and a special music programme during ADE. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPress kit (zip)Press release (pdf) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nColophon\n\n\n\nInitiated by Lawil Karama  \n\n\n\nAt W139\, we work collectively and intersectionally on exhibitions\, guided and led by the initiating artists that we invite. This exhibition has been developed with guest curator Megan Hoetger leading the process\, together with the team of W139: Tomas Adolfs\, André Avelãs\, Cari Călinici\, Dana Claasen\, Jacob Dwyer\, Levi van Gelder\, Dil Ghale\, Lies Kelder\, Geer van der Klugt\, Monica Liu\, Macarena Magaña\, Margarita Osipian\, Annette Wolfsberger\, and our amazing team of volunteers. \n\n\n\nVisual identity: Nuno Beijinho \n\n\n\nThis exhibition is generously supported by Amsterdam Fund for the Arts\, Mondriaan Fund\, and Fonds 21. \n\n\n\nThe production of the work of Lawil Karama was supported by Amarte Fund\, with special thanks to Stefanie Tseggai (Desta’na\, pavilion design)\, Maarten Milttenbrug van Duyts (pavilion construction advise)\, Yavuz Selim Isler (projection color grading)\, and Malaia Simms (sound design). \n\n\n\nThe residency of Komtouch Napattaloong is part of the Exchanges programme by the Prince Claus Fund\, with the support of the Amsterdam City Council. \n\n\n\nThe production of the work by Michèle Boulogne was supported by a residency at AGA Lab. \n\n\n\nRubber Dreams of Its Lifetime by Komtouch Napattaloong\, Bart Seng Wen Long and Kaisa Saarinen is funded by KONE Foundation. \n\n\n\nThanks to Erwin van ‘t Hart for film-technical support with the work of Laura Fong Prosper and Tin Wilke. \n\n\n\nFor Aram Lee’s work\, special thanks goes out to grandmothers Merapi Obermayer and Mei Ling Wan\, and granddaughter Fransisca Angela. Sound design by Mint Park. \n\n\n\nPartners: Amsterdam Dance Event
URL:https://w139.nl/en/event/the-nature-of-remembering/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260904T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260904T220000
DTSTAMP:20260901T221049
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SUMMARY:Opening The Nature of Remembering
DESCRIPTION:Come and join us at the opening of The Nature of Remembering. This group exhibition\, initiated by artist Lawil Karama in conversation with historian Megan Hoetger\, features multimedia research projects that move between interrogation of normative memory politics and co-experimentation with environmental and more-than-human bodies. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition title carries in it two meanings: on the one hand\, nature is evoked\, drawing focus to actants\, actors\, and animacies beyond and beside the human\, who witness\, participate in\, index\, recollect\, foretell\, and haunt historical time. On the other hand\, the idiomatic expression the nature of is taken up as a provocation\, pushing against pervasive ideological and violently enforced notions of remembering and of commemorating.Running through all projects is a commitment to practices of frictioning: engaging technologies against their colonial grain\, and lingering in the affectively\, ancestrally\, archivally\, and forensically intertwined conditions of lived experience and knowledge production. Collectively\, the works ask: Who\, or what\, enframes and enlivens acts of remembering violence\, which have been rendered invisible\, unspeakable\, and unthinkable? \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features work by Samuel Baidoo\, Michèle Boulogne\, Laura Fong Prosper and Tin Wilke\, Lawil Karama\, Aram Lee\, Komtouch Napattaloong\, Bart Seng Wen Long\, and Kaisa Saarinen.
URL:https://w139.nl/en/event/opening-the-nature-of-remembering/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260908T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260924T180000
DTSTAMP:20260901T221049
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SUMMARY:Para-siting: 0000-00-00
DESCRIPTION:Trevoga is a collective that defines itself as a chaotic intersection of performers who move against the current: dreamers\, doomers and aliens drawn toward another affect. Searching for an even more free-form methodology of peer-to-peer theatre production\, Trevoga settles into Para-siting to develop Softrot’s upcoming solo performance 0000-00-00\, made in collaboration with Neda Ruzheva\, Manshee Zheng and music producer Damiaan Steyn. \n\n\n\nThrough heavily processed vocals\, comfort clothes\, soft hexes\, and disorienting dramaturgy\, 0000-00-00 captures Softrot mid-molt. Like an insect whose new exoskeleton hasn’t hardened\, her world is unstable\, suspended between incomplete images\, worst-case scenarios and everyday rituals stuck on repeat. Her softness means she can only move wrongly. \n\n\n\nInflected by Trevoga’s fascination with grim aesthetics and algorithmic alienation\, the work turns this suspended state into a condition rather than an exception. What happens when the act of becoming hardens into logistical obligation\, when transformation ceases to promise renewal and becomes continuous labor instead?  \n\n\n\n0000-00-00 doesn’t fear the end of the world\, but a world that never quite ends. Productive exhaustion\, curdled into optimized deterioration. Where every attempt at repair extends what is already wearing away. Simply continuing because there is no protocol for stopping. \n\n\n\nThe process of the performance will remain accessible to visitors throughout the exhibition during opening hours. The public programme unfolds through two guided encounters Rotmaxxing Home and Rot-in-Progress before culminating in the first public try-out of the performance\, Try-Rotting: 0000-00-00. \n\n\n\nNina Pushkareva—Softrot—is an Amsterdam-based multidisciplinary artist and graduate of the Academy for Theatre and Dance (Modern Theatre Dance). Working across movement\, music\, fashion\, and sculpture\, she approaches the body as both image and organism\, caught between decay and hallucinated continuity; reconstructed from references\, preserved and consumed. \n\n\n\nNeda Ruzheva—co-founder of dance collective Trevoga—graduated from the School for New Dance Development before continuing their studies at the Sandberg Institute. Their practice blends academic rigor with subcultural grit\, fusing theory\, sculpture\, physicality and industrial sound to probe the commodification of desire and longing buried beneath digital fatigue. \n\n\n\nManshee Zheng (b. 2002\, Beijing) is an artist based in Amsterdam\, working across installation\, fashion objects and autofictional text. Her practice orbits spectacle-driven desire and the tension between sterile surfaces and psychological violence. She constructs controlled\, seductive scenes of exhibitionistic hiding—simultaneously hypervisible and hollowed out.
URL:https://w139.nl/en/event/para-siting-0000-00-00/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260911T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260911T180000
DTSTAMP:20260901T221049
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SUMMARY:Rotmaxxing Home: Listening Session
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a walk-in installation with scenographic elements and sound experiments from 0000-00-00. Low frequencies and scattered objects give a first glimpse into the process.  \n\n\n\nVisitors can enter the space throughout the afternoon. \n\n\n\nOur Para-siting space and our toilets are on the first floor\, which is only accessible via a set of stairs. \n\n\n\nOur normal ticket prices are applicable for this event. For more info on opening times\, accessibility or ticket prices\, see Contact & Visit.  \n\n\n\nNina Pushkareva is an Amsterdam-based multidisciplinary artist and graduate of the Academy for Theatre and Dance (Modern Theatre Dance). Working across movement\, music\, fashion\, and sculpture\, she approaches the body as both image and organism\, caught between decay and hallucinated continuity; reconstructed from references\, preserved and consumed. \n\n\n\nNeda Ruzheva graduated from the School for New Dance Development before continuing their studies at the Sandberg Institute. Their practice blends academic rigour with subcultural grit\, fusing theory\, sculpture\, physicality and industrial sound to probe the commodification of desire and longing buried beneath digital fatigue. \n\n\n\nManshee Zheng (b. 2002\, Beijing) is an artist based in Amsterdam\, working across installation\, fashion objects and autofictional text. Her practice orbits spectacle-driven desire and the tension between sterile surfaces and psychological violence. She constructs controlled\, seductive scenes of exhibitionistic hiding—simultaneously hypervisible and hollowed out.
URL:https://w139.nl/en/event/rotmaxxing-home-luistersessie/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260918T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260918T180000
DTSTAMP:20260901T221049
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SUMMARY:Rot-in-Progress: Open Rehearsal
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an open rehearsal of 0000-00-00: unfinished scenes\, technical try-outs\, still-ambiguous atmospheres\, and\, hopefully\, mastered tracks.  \n\n\n\nYou can sign up here (link will follow) to attend the rehearsal and participate in the feedback session that follows. \n\n\n\nOur Para-siting space and our toilets are on the first floor\, which is only accessible via a set of stairs. \n\n\n\nOur normal ticket prices are applicable for this event. For more info on opening times\, accessibility or ticket prices\, see Contact & Visit.  \n\n\n\nNina Pushkareva is an Amsterdam-based multidisciplinary artist and graduate of the Academy for Theatre and Dance (Modern Theatre Dance). Working across movement\, music\, fashion\, and sculpture\, she approaches the body as both image and organism\, caught between decay and hallucinated continuity; reconstructed from references\, preserved and consumed. \n\n\n\nNeda Ruzheva graduated from the School for New Dance Development before continuing their studies at the Sandberg Institute. Their practice blends academic rigour with subcultural grit\, fusing theory\, sculpture\, physicality and industrial sound to probe the commodification of desire and longing buried beneath digital fatigue. \n\n\n\nManshee Zheng (b. 2002\, Beijing) is an artist based in Amsterdam\, working across installation\, fashion objects and autofictional text. Her practice orbits spectacle-driven desire and the tension between sterile surfaces and psychological violence. She constructs controlled\, seductive scenes of exhibitionistic hiding—simultaneously hypervisible and hollowed out.
URL:https://w139.nl/en/event/rot-in-progress-open-repetitie/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260919T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260919T180000
DTSTAMP:20260901T221049
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SUMMARY:Atmospheric Witnessing
DESCRIPTION:Initiating artist Lawil Karama is joined by anthropologist\, artist\, and curator Edward Akintola Hubbard for a conversation around Karama’s installation Algorithm of Colour\, shedding light on her long-term research into the limits of representing violence and the possibilities for staging sites of memorial. \n\n\n\nTicket: €7\,50Student and solidarity ticket: €5 \n\n\n\nBuy your tickets via Eventbrite. \n\n\n\nLawil Karama (she/her) is a Ugandan-Dutch conceptual artist born in former West Berlin and based in Amsterdam. Her work is deeply rooted in the diasporic experience\, often drawing from her family history as a starting point for challenging conventional narratives and amplifying unheard voices. Karama’s creative path began in the world of special make-up effects\, which continues to influence her approach\, bringing a visceral understanding of form\, surface\, and psychological tension into her current work. \n\n\n\nEdward Akintola Hubbard (he/him) is a Rotterdam-based artist and educator whose practice is experimental ethnography. Combining research methods from across anthropology\, art theory\, cinema\, media studies\, gender studies\, urban studies\, gothic studies and African diaspora studies\, his work takes form through photography\, video\, installation\, and curation. As artistic director of the DARKMATTER Collective\, Hubbard is invested in creating spaces where the invisible can be made visible. \n\n\n\nImage: Lawil Karama\, Algorithm of Colour: Reflection Series – Sky 14:00 EAT\, February 10\, 1973 Mbale\, Uganda (2026)\, KunstRAI X Rietveld Alumni 2026: paralelepípedo\, photography by Lucia Del Valle Ramirez.
URL:https://w139.nl/en/event/atmospheric-witnessing/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260924T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260924T220000
DTSTAMP:20260901T221049
CREATED:20260831T152245Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260831T152747Z
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SUMMARY:Try-Rotting: Final Presentation
DESCRIPTION:We want to welcome you to the first public try-out of 0000-00-00\, bringing together all the materials developed during Para-siting. \n\n\n\n19:00: doors open20:00: performance \n\n\n\nOur Para-siting space and our toilets are on the first floor\, which is only accessible via a set of stairs. For more info on accessibility\, see Contact & Visit.  \n\n\n\nNina Pushkareva is an Amsterdam-based multidisciplinary artist and graduate of the Academy for Theatre and Dance (Modern Theatre Dance). Working across movement\, music\, fashion\, and sculpture\, she approaches the body as both image and organism\, caught between decay and hallucinated continuity; reconstructed from references\, preserved and consumed. \n\n\n\nNeda Ruzheva graduated from the School for New Dance Development before continuing their studies at the Sandberg Institute. Their practice blends academic rigour with subcultural grit\, fusing theory\, sculpture\, physicality and industrial sound to probe the commodification of desire and longing buried beneath digital fatigue. \n\n\n\nManshee Zheng (b. 2002\, Beijing) is an artist based in Amsterdam\, working across installation\, fashion objects and autofictional text. Her practice orbits spectacle-driven desire and the tension between sterile surfaces and psychological violence. She constructs controlled\, seductive scenes of exhibitionistic hiding—simultaneously hypervisible and hollowed out.
URL:https://w139.nl/en/event/try-rotting-eindpresentatie/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260927T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260927T180000
DTSTAMP:20260901T221049
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SUMMARY:The Frame Cannot Hold the Ghosts
DESCRIPTION:A screening and reading programme with Komtouch Napattaloong\, Kaisa Saarinen\, and Bart Seng Wen Long\, which extends out from the trio’s collective installation\, bringing focus to their distinct yet sympathetic forms of narration and storytelling. In collaboration with the Prince Claus Fund. \n\n\n\nLingering within the hallowed space of the make-shift rubber tapper shelter in the main exhibition gallery\, between the CRT monitor and the modern flatscreen and the stacks of anarchronistic agitprop\, are persistent ghosts biding their time to re-manifest: as kinky anecdotes of a middle-aged Singaporean rubberist; a veteran camcorder on its last pixels; eccentric mythologies that have built and continue to sustain a nation’s spirit; the dreams sustained by freebleeding trees night after night. \n\n\n\nThey gather in the screening and reading programme\, The Frame Cannot Hold the Ghosts\, which expands on the various themes entangled within the installation\, featuring three short films\, an interview with a gimp\, and excerpts from a hybrid nonfiction-in-progress. \n\n\n\nTicket: €7\,50Student and solidarity ticket: €5 \n\n\n\nBuy your tickets via Eventbrite. \n\n\n\nFilm programme\n\n\n\nPhi Pattana / In Sum (2026)\, 17 minCorroded pixels struggle to form an image as they move through Cold War promises of development in rural Thailand\, haunted by archival voices. \n\n\n\nEmergencies (2025)\, 15 minA Singaporean man mixes up two memories: one of a colonial-era propaganda film about communist insurgencies in rubber plantations\, and another of his Malaysian ex-playmate. \n\n\n\nNo Exorcism Film (2024)\, 20 minAs one robotic voice recounts nightmarish returns to Thailand\, another seeks to console. \n\n\n\nField Interview #2 (2025)\, 5 minOn the elevated walkway of Singapore’s Plantation District\, a social housing estate built on top of a colonial-era rubber plantation\, M. Shah hones his kickboxing drills clad in his preferred sportswear—a head-to-toe rubber suit. \n\n\n\nAll of It Transforms into Something Nobody Knows (Ongoing)Emerging from and building on an ongoing research-based art project around rubber\, All of It Transformed into Something Nobody Knows is a hybrid non-fiction book that explores the material as a commodity fetish & fetish commodity. \n\n\n\nKomtouch Napattaloong (he/him) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Thailand. Working across experimental\, documentary\, and ‘post-documentary’ cinematic forms\, his practice involves identity deconstructions\, migration narratives\, and historical translations to examine the nature of memory\, displacement\, and image agency. \n\n\n\nKaisa Saarinen (she/her) is a Finnish researcher\, poet\, and novelist based in London. She writes about false dichotomies\, country girls lost in the dazzle of big cities and other underdogs\, strange desires and painful transformations\, with particular attention to the absurd pleasures and frequent horrors of living through an ongoing apocalypse. Together with Bart Seng Wen Long\, she is leading the Rubber Dreams of its Lifetime project. \n\n\n\nBart Seng Wen Long (he/him) is a Singaporean artist\, filmmaker and curator based in London. His practice spans moving images\, photography\, expanded cinema and performance\, revolving around confrontations between reality and fantasy\, and how in the heat of such encounters\, they reveal the interconnectedness of things within the political economy of desire. \n\n\n\nImage: still from Phi Pattana / In Sum (2026) by Komtouch Napattaloong. \n\n\n\nThe residency of Komtouch Napattaloong is part of the Exchanges programme by the Prince Claus Fund\, with the support of the Amsterdam City Council.
URL:https://w139.nl/en/event/the-frame-cannot-hold-the-ghosts/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261003T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261003T150000
DTSTAMP:20260901T221049
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SUMMARY:Curators’ Walkthrough of The Nature of Remembering
DESCRIPTION:Join co-curators Megan Hoetger and Lawil Karama for a walkthrough of the exhibition\, which introduces the audience to key topics within each of the artists’ research trajectories\, as well as to major themes connecting between them.  \n\n\n\nFor this event our normal entry ticket prices are applicable. Reserve your spot via Eventbrite and buy your ticket at the door. \n\n\n\nLawil Karama (she/her) is a Ugandan-Dutch conceptual artist born in former West Berlin and based in Amsterdam. Her work is deeply rooted in the diasporic experience\, often drawing from her family history as a starting point for challenging conventional narratives and amplifying unheard voices. Karama’s creative path began in the world of special make-up effects\, which continues to influence her approach\, bringing a visceral understanding of form\, surface\, and psychological tension into her current work. \n\n\n\nMegan Hoetger (she/her) is an on-the-ground hard femme⁠⁠⁠\, and she is also a performance\, film\, and media historian\, a curator\, convener\, and pedagogical dreamer. At the core of her work is a double commitment: first\, to a research praxis that rejects colonial and (neo)liberal strategies of knowledge production; and second\, to the frames of thinking offered by the field of performance studies with regards to time\, (im)material transmission\, and embodied memory. Hoetger is particularly attentive to what these frames of thinking can teach her about historiographic method\, the relationality of archival work / the relational work of ‘the archival\,’ and the politics of remembering events—from macro-level actions in statecraft and international relations to micro-level happenings like a film screening\, poetry reading\, or performance.
URL:https://w139.nl/en/event/curators-walkthrough/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261011T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261011T163000
DTSTAMP:20260901T221049
CREATED:20260824T094416Z
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SUMMARY:20–23°C / 50% RH
DESCRIPTION:In this performative activation of 350.000 Leaks (Griefs)\, Aram Lee and artist Merapi Obermayer invite participants into an intergenerational gathering of reading\, storytelling\, oral histories\, and call-and-response. \n\n\n\nMoving across generations\, national borders\, bodies\, and languages\, 20–23°C / 50% RH questions the hegemonic logic of the universal institutional climate established through conservation in European ethnocolonial museums. Rather than approaching preservation as permanence\, the gathering begins from an understanding of care as a practice of transmission\, translation\, and transformation. Through personal memories\, oral histories\, excerpts from the work\, and related texts\, the group explores how memories\, losses\, and climates pass between and through bodies. Together\, Lee\, Obermayer\, and the session participants seek other climates that emerge through ongoing acts of translation and cannot be reduced to fixed measurements. \n\n\n\nTicket: €10Student and solidarity ticket: €7\,50 \n\n\n\nBuy your tickets via Eventbrite. \n\n\n\nAram Lee (she/her) is an artist\, writer\, and educator. Grounded in feminist materialist thinking\, her practice examines how histories of power\, militarization\, occupation\, and toxicity are embedded within landscapes\, bodies\, and ecological matter. Working across moving image\, installation\, and research-based projects\, she draws on oral histories\, scientific inquiry\, and site-specific investigation to reveal marginalized narratives\, material memory\, and alternative ways of sensing place. \n\n\n\nMerapi Obermayer (she/her) is an artist\, poet\, and writer born in 1947. Obermeyer calls her work “Fragments in passing\,” which bring together various disciplines based on her own colonial history and the issues it raises. The city became her natural habitat—there she meets people who\, just like her\, have become detached from their original landscape; people who are\, day after day\, creating their own landscapes\, which cannot be taken away by others and which can be carried forever. You can bury your roots\, your childhood\, but never forever. There is no need to show them to the world. They come out of their own accord. Right now\, Obermayer’s attention is focused on photography\, projects that are never finished\, and writing. \n\n\n\nImage: 350\,000 Leaks (Griefs) (2024) by Aram Lee\, documentation of the live radio broadcast at Wereldmuseum Amsterdam.
URL:https://w139.nl/en/event/20-23c-50-rh/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261017T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261017T213000
DTSTAMP:20260901T221049
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SUMMARY:Plum Road Tea Dream_The Hangout
DESCRIPTION:Plum Road Tea Dream_The Hangout is a relaxed performance centered around the autobiographical video game Plum Road Tea Dream created by artist Samuel Baidoo. The work explores how we can imagine new spaces for grief\, healing\, commemoration and transformation. Equal parts honest conversation\, collective gaming session\, tea ceremony and ritual\, it invites audiences into an intimate but casual space of reflection and shared experience. For this edition of _The Hangout at W139 Samuel will enter into a dialogue with The Nature of Remembering initiating artist Lawil Karama. \n\n\n\nTicket: €10Student and solidarity ticket: €7\,50 \n\n\n\nBuy your tickets via Eventbrite. \n\n\n\nSamuel Baidoo (they/them) is a creator\, performer\, game designer and mentor. Alongside their work in the Hanafubuki artist collective\, Baidoo also works in various collaborative constellations and maintains their individual practice\, which links autobiographical experiences to diverse performances through a constantly evolving archive of images\, fragments of text\, film stills\, documentaries\, musical pieces\, or excerpts from series\, films\, games\, or manga—popular culture has a special place in their heart. \n\n\n\nLawil Karama (she/her) is a Ugandan-Dutch conceptual artist born in former West Berlin and based in Amsterdam. Her work is deeply rooted in the diasporic experience\, often drawing from her family history as a starting point for challenging conventional narratives and amplifying unheard voices. Karama’s creative path began in the world of special make-up effects\, which continues to influence her approach\, bringing a visceral understanding of form\, surface\, and psychological tension into her current work. \n\n\n\nImage: still from Plum Road Tea Dream (2026) by Samuel Baidoo.
URL:https://w139.nl/en/event/plum-road-tea-dream_the-hangout/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261023T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261023T230000
DTSTAMP:20260901T221049
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SUMMARY:ADE x DARKMATTER: Sapodilla
DESCRIPTION:A special electronic sound programme organized by DARKMATTER Collective featuring musical performances by Amanah and Maguette Dieng that center marginalized voices\, diasporic perspectives\, and cultural transformation. In collaboration with Amsterdam Dance Event.  \n\n\n\nSapodilla is DARKMATTER Collective’s signature electronic music event\, presenting a listening session inside W139 with local and international artists. Since its launch in 2022\, Sapodilla has reimagined club culture as a space where electronic sound\, artistic experimentation and community converge\, centering marginalized voices and diasporic perspectives. \n\n\n\nNamed after a fruit native to the tropical Americas\, with deep roots in Indigenous histories of cultivation and knowledge\, Sapodilla takes the fruit as a symbol of movement and cultural transformation. Its journeys across the Caribbean and beyond resonate with DARKMATTER’s engagement with histories shaped by indigeneity\, colonialism\, slavery\, migration and creolization—and with the cultures and communities that have endured\, transformed and flourished through them. \n\n\n\nTicket: €10Student and solidarity ticket: €7\,50Free for ADE Pro passholders. \n\n\n\nBuy your tickets via Eventbrite.
URL:https://w139.nl/en/event/ade-x-darkmatter-sapodilla/
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SUMMARY:All That Remains (The Right of Return)
DESCRIPTION:To close The Nature of Remembering\, we are honored to welcome artist-filmmaker Inas Halabi. She will lead us through a listening session centered around field recordings collected from the sites of demolished Palestinian villages. These villages have been turned into Israeli national parks and reserves and overgrown with foreign pine trees in an attempt to erase them\, confiscate the land\, and prevent the original inhabitants (now refugees) from returning. \n\n\n\nThe field recordings are part of her ongoing research and a film she is currently producing\, which also explores the Indigenous plants that continue to grow in these locations\, alongside collective rituals related to the harvest season and land\, as a way of disrupting this ongoing erasure. Presenting aural landscapes from these locations\, that hold together the drum-like song of cicadas and the drone of jet engines\, the soundscapes at W139 invite us to consider: What might an image of ‘return’ sound like? \n\n\n\nTicket: €7\,50Student and solidarity ticket: €5 \n\n\n\nBuy your tickets via Eventbrite. \n\n\n\nInas Halabi (she/her) is an artist-filmmaker living and working between Palestine and the Netherlands. Her practice is concerned with how social and political forms of power manifest\, and the impact that overlooked or suppressed histories have on contemporary life. This is anchored around her interest in landscape and systems of power and control. Taking up the history and territory of her native Palestine\, her work explores the politics of erasure and the everlasting impact of colonialism on the land and its people. Through the deliberate use of repetition\, she aims to capture and create situations that insist on being looked at more closely\, bringing to the foreground details of the invisible violence in the everyday\, while continuously searching for ways to disrupt this through image and sound\, and more recently through collective practices and rituals related to the land.  \n\n\n\nImage: The demolished village of Beyt ‘Itab\, Palestine\, 2024. From The Right of Return / All That Remains\, an ongoing project by Inas Halabi.
URL:https://w139.nl/en/event/all-that-remains-the-right-of-return/
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