Closing – W139

Auction Dead Darlings XX

Dead Darlings is thrilled to mark their 20th anniversary with a special exhibition and auction in collaboration with W139.

Come celebrate an auction event like no other! Two rounds of bidding, with food, drinks, performances, and plenty of surprises. Stay for the whole thing — or drop in whenever you like!

All sales are anonymous — artists’ names are revealed only after each work is sold! Our 20th edition celebrates community, creativity, and collaboration.

Programme

The auction begins at 16:00, but you are welcome to come and view the works from 12:00-16:00.
You can get a head start on checking out the artworks through the online catalogue on the Dead Darlings website

Doors — 12:00
Auction — 16:00–21:00
Dinner break — 18:00-19:00

Free entrance
Register for a paddle: € 2
If you have bought a catalogue, you will receive a paddle for free, but we recommend you sign up ahead of time to make the process smoother. And don’t forget to bring the catalogue with you!

Food will be provided starting at 17:00 by Aslı Hatipoğlu, with a dinner break from 18:00-19:00.

Food by Aslı Hatipoğlu
-Fresh rice paper rolls with root vegetables (pastinaak or parsley root, pumpkin, carrots ) grilled tempeh, purple rice noodles, smoked mushrooms, sprouts, served with spicy tamarind peanut sauce (vegan and gluten free)

-Black bao buns with charred leeks, caramelized oyster mushrooms, tempeh, spicy vegan blue mayo, red sourkraut, cresson, crunchy peanuts (vegan, gluten)

-Pumpkin coconut soup with black cardamom, served with sourdough bread (vegan, gluten free)

84 Participating artists in alphabetical order: Ad de Jong, Adriana Joëlle Jochems, Ahmad Mallah, Andrea Imwiehe, André van Bergen, Anika Schwarzlose & Elena Khurtova, Anna Hoetjes, Annaleen Louwes, Anne Wölk, Anni Ruffin, Antoinette Nausikaä, Anuschka Blommers / Niels Schumm, Aurélien Lepetit, Barbara Rink, Charlott Markus, Coralie Vogelaar, Danielle Vorthuys, Dasha Afanaseva, Delta van Melle, Diana Al-Halabi, Emmanuelle Wilhelm, Erik Alkema, Eva Schippers, Floor Meijers, George Korsmit, Gijs Assmann, Giorgos Gripeos, Hanna Mattes, Ine Lamers, Jacopo Calonaci, James Beckett, Jan Timmers, Janneke Raaphorst, Jean-Philippe Paumier, Jessie Yingying Gong, Joep Neefjes/LPI, Johannes Schwartz, Joseph Miceli, Kai Reichert, Kandido Filgueiras, Klara Hobza, Kristine Hymøller, Leyla Sünnenwold, Lieve Hakkers, Lina Ozerkina, Lisa Sudhibhasilp, Lo Yuen Ming, Lotte Reimann, Lotte van Geijn, Manshee Zheng, Marek van de Watering, Mariana Oliveira, Marianne Vierø, Marie Ilse Bourlanges, Marlies Neugebauer, Masaki Komoto, Maud van der Werf, Max van Meeuwen, Mayra Sérgio, Miklos Gaál, Noam Holdengreber, Pantelis Makkas, Paulien Barbas, Peter de Boer, Popel Coumou, Rebecca Sakoun & Florian Göttke, Rob van der Nol, Roman Tkachenko, Ruth van Beek, Semâ Bekirović & Xu XueQin, Seán O’Riordan, Simon Marsiglia, Sofija Li Virta, Soji Shimizu, Sophie Schreurs, Stéphanie Baechler, Susan Kooi, Susanna Brenner, T Y Gutter, Tania Theodorou, Thomas Monses, Vita Buivid and Anna Buyvid, Yann Vissers, Yiannis Vellis.

Dead Darlings began in 2005 as a subversive, anonymous art auction in Amsterdam. It has since grown into an international platform with a mission to explore the often fraught, always complex relationship between the price and the value of an artwork, focusing on dead darlings—works an artist has created but never brought to light. Inspired by “kill your darlings,” they ask: what becomes of these ambivalent works.

Aslı Hatipoğlu (TH/TR) is an interdisciplinary artist whose social practice focuses on curating participatory dinners and installations that shed light on how culinary history and agricultural politics are changing our relationship to food. From working with micro-scale bacteria and yeasts responsible for fermentation to insects such as the domesticated silkworm, Asli critically investigates ways of relating to our environment and ourselves. Currently she has been working with the shifting narrative of an artist and a tour-guide, merging fiction and reality with story-telling in performative acts as a way to critically question today’s systems of production as a marketable tourist destination.

Frites de Passage: PPP Farewell Event

On the 27th of July, the PPP will leave the spaces of W139. After two months and more then 20 workshops, this day will be turned into a small harvest festival. You are very welcome to join! Together with all the participants and contributors, we will celebrate everything that has been sprouting, growing and surfacing during the last months.

Expect a showcase of workshop results on the catwalk of the Doe-Het-Zelf Werkplaats, heated potato debates at Jody Aikman’s Potato Parliament, and snacks made with home-grown potatoes—freshly harvested at 4Siblings—in the kitchen of the Paniek Fabriek by bende van de glittervingers.

Together we will close off the PPP’s passage at W139 with potatoes, music and drinks.

Jody Aikman is a poet and performer exploring the intersection where artist, audience and message meet. She researches the silences in language by questing meaning, ambiguity, and implication through her writing. Her performances are created to blur the line between audience and artist, investigating the relationship between herself, the other and the world.

FLUSH #7: Pitxantu

Eli Wewentxu has arrived to the swamp, from the distances of Wallmapu where he currently lives and works with the land, sowing and caring for animals. Wewentxu will close FLUSH’s cycle in the W139 toilet in the best way possible: with his sounds and his music.

Pitxantu Sound Archives, as a work, is born from deep listening during walks through the pitxantu, or pitxa forest, located in the territory where Wewentxu lives and where his family has lived for several generations. Field recordings, soundscapes, synthesizer layers, and melodic lines with bowed string instruments and txompe compose these pieces, which seek an imaginary dialogue with the territory, the beings that inhabit it, and their forces, which in turn perceive and listen to us.

Entry to concert is free.

Eli Wewentxu is a Mapuche artist from PLC, Gulumapu – Wallmapu, now known as south-central Chile. He trained as a violinist from an early age. In sound, he works with improvisation and musical composition with the idea of redefining listening through a narrative close to the territory in resistance to which he belongs.

FLUSH is a flourishing collaboration between Espacio Estamos Bien and W139, located in the toilets of W139. FLUSH operates as a flexible form of organizing and creating, enabling various types of collaboration. FLUSH aims to foster inter-local relationships, viewing Amsterdam as a hub for facilitating diverse interactions and building connections that bridge distances. Joyful, friendly and decentralized connections extend beyond the Amsterdam art scene.

The Myth of a Life Sentence, أسطورة المؤبدات

As part of Saja Amro and Wassila Abboud’s on-going research program Remove the Dot, they’ll be screening excerpts from a recent interview with newly released political prisoner Wa’el Jaghoub with a short discussion following the screening.

Wael Naim Ahmed Al-Jaghoub was born in 1967 in Beita, a village south of Nablus. Al-Jaghoub was first arrested in 1992 and spent six years in prison before being released in 1998. His release period was cut short by a second arrest in 2001 which held a significantly harsher sentence of life imprisonment. While this period in prison was also met with harsher daily conditions, including long periods of solitary confinement, he continued to write and wrote several books capturing what he saw and understood from within the prison walls. During this time he also played a significant role in organizing within the prisons, serving as a leading figure in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

In this conversation, Wael recounts his time in prison, and his reflections on the occupation as a fantasy of dust هذا الوحش وهم من غبار. He reflects on the struggles of Palestinian prisoners whose sacrifices would not be in vain.

The event is free but space is limited, so please register via Eventbrite.

Rainbow Social Music Club

Join us for a drink to celebrate the end of the exhibition together with the Rainbow Soulclub members in an informal gathering followed by a sonic activation by The Social Music Club from 20:00 hrs onwards.

The Social Music Club is a participatory music session for musicians, non-musicians, amateurs, and professionals alike hosted by Aimée Theriot and Koen Nutters. In these gatherings for musical improvisation without dogmas, the emphasis lies on meeting and getting to know each other, while also discussing, putting into practice and stretching the understanding of what exactly music is and can be. Bring an instrument, an object or your own voice if you want to join.

Rainbow Soulclub is an art and solidarity collective founded in 2005 by visual artists Saskia Janssen and George Korsmit. Composed of makers and thinkers coming from different social, economic, and cultural backgrounds, they meet regularly at the collective studio in the drop-in centre of Stichting De Regenboog Groep, an organisation in Amsterdam dedicated to people experiencing homelessness, addiction, poverty, and the challenges that come with undocumented status.

This event is free, but The Social Music Club has a limited capacity so please register here via Eventbrite.

Finissage That Those Beings Be Not Being

W139 is pleased to invite you to the finissage of That Those Beings Be Not Being. For this last day of the exhibition we have put together a day program with a zine launch by The Wild and an extended edition of EMIRHAKIN’s WHO IS GOING TO DIE IF I KILL MY SELF?

The exhibition will be open during the day from 12-15h. At 15h the show will close for the performance of EMIRHAKIN that will take place (reservation is required).

We hope to welcome you for this last gathering at W139 of this year.

Photography by Jeroen de Smalen.

Closing Event Turning Towards Fluidity

Three games will be played during this event: Sonic Crosse, Multiform and Anonymous Allyship. In Anonymous Allyship, the notion of anonymity creates a situation where players don’t know who belongs to their team, and explores the feeling of belonging and the ways people perform in a group. Joana Cavaco will be our MC, there will be musical accompaniment by snufkin, a performance by Kexin Hao and Queer Choir Amsterdam will close the month of tournaments with a unique performance.

Closing W139 hosts… 2023

Don’t miss the spectacular closing event of W139 hosts… on Friday 27 October. During this evening, we will celebrate the 7 weeks of artistic experimentation, and the makers, participants and visitors that we welcomed in our space.

Starting at W139 from 19:00, the closing event will feature an exciting performance from the static yet dynamic duo echo+seashell, performing a live set of two new songs produced by musician Torus and their music videos, and the spectacular miniskirt reveal from cryodesiccated freelance fanfiction entrepreneur Ötza.

Photography by Elodie Vreeburg.