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A Soft Guide to Chill: ADE

A Soft Guide to Chill: ADE

During Amsterdam Dance Event A Soft Guide to Chill invites numerous artists to activate the Para-siting space.

The programme opens with LNR, the DJ alias of El Bickers, a UK-born, Amsterdam-based writer, researcher, and DJ whose practice bridges archival research with the energy of the dance floor. Through deep investigations into underground music histories and 90s rave countercultures, LNR explores the connections between past movements and contemporary electronic landscapes. Their sets draw from decades of musical experimentation, weaving together forgotten sounds, countercultural histories, and the evolving language of the club.

During Amsterdam Dance Event, A Soft Guide to Chill invites Archetype to perform his new album Nothing New Under The Sun, a critical reflection on how contemporary individual experiences—despite being more connected than ever—are increasingly shaped by feelings of isolation, anxiety, and fragmentation.

The evening also features a live performance by Gizem Öz, an Amsterdam-based composer, sound artist, and contemporary artist working at the intersections of club and gallery, ritual and technology, emotion and abstraction.

The evening closes with Sarah Saleh, an interdisciplinary artist, DJ, and co-founder of BBTCOR, whose sonic practice explores the emotional and spatial qualities of electronic music. Through her research into the 1990s chill-out room, she brings together ambient, dub, downtempo, and psychedelic influences to create spaces for collective listening, reflection, and connection.

Together, Claartje Barkof and Sarah Saleh in collaboration with El Bickers translate the research of A Soft Guide to Chill into an immersive sonic journey, revisiting the chill-out room as a space for memory, experimentation, and communal experience.

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General Admission: €15.00
Student/Solidarity: €10.00

BBTCOR (Bring Back The Chill Out Room) is an artistic and curatorial platform that revives and reimagines the culture of the 1990s chill-out room within contemporary spaces.

Rather than focusing on the dance floor, BBTCOR explores the spaces of rest, reflection, intimacy, and listening that historically existed alongside club culture. Through events, radio broadcasts, scenography, research, and public programs, the project investigates how chill-out rooms functioned as environments for recovery, connection, experimentation, and alternative ways of experiencing music.

At its core, BBTCOR asks how these spaces can be reinterpreted today through a critical and inclusive lens. The project combines musical programming (ambient, downtempo, dub, IDM, psychedelic and experimental sounds) with archival research, storytelling, and artistic interventions

A Soft Guide to Chill: Opening

For the opening of A Soft Guide to Chill, BBTCOR introduces two artists who will carve out their own sonic worlds within the Para-siting space.

Elina Tapio crafts cerebral sets steeped in dark atmospheres and psychedelic rhythms, weaving mysticism and obscurity through her club and listening practices. Approaching sound as a disembodied experience, her work explores the fluidity of performance, contemplation of the unknown, and the sensual possibilities of the chill-out space.

WyXXe works with a fixed set of hardware, moving between IDM, trance, breaks and dub in a sound that is always beat-driven but never strictly club-oriented. Combining algorithmic thinking, emotive machine-generated melodies and field recordings, his live performances create an evolving space between the synthetic and the organic.

19 – 19:30pm: WyXXe (live) 

19:30 – 22pm: Elina Tapio

BBTCOR (Bring Back The Chill Out Room) is an artistic and curatorial platform that revives and reimagines the culture of the 1990s chill-out room within contemporary spaces.

Rather than focusing on the dance floor, BBTCOR explores the spaces of rest, reflection, intimacy, and listening that historically existed alongside club culture. Through events, radio broadcasts, scenography, research, and public programs, the project investigates how chill-out rooms functioned as environments for recovery, connection, experimentation, and alternative ways of experiencing music.

At its core, BBTCOR asks how these spaces can be reinterpreted today through a critical and inclusive lens. The project combines musical programming (ambient, downtempo, dub, IDM, psychedelic and experimental sounds) with archival research, storytelling, and artistic interventions

Codicil Screenings: Christopher Tym

Codicil Screenings is a screening program that runs in the front space of the W139 until September 2018. Every Thursday evening an artist is invited to present their work amongst other moving images of their choice. A codicil is an addition or supplement that explains, modifies or revokes a will.

Codicil Screenings is een screeningprogramma dat t/m september 2018 in de voorruimte van de W139 werd gepresenteerd. Elke donderdagavond wordt een kunstenaar uitgenodigd om hun werk te presenteren in relatie tot andere bewegende beelden van hun eigen keuze. Een codicil is een toevoeging of aanvulling die een testament uitlegt, wijzigt of ongeldig verklaard.

Op donderdag 19 juli begint het programma met Christopher Tym, wiens werk vaak visuele vocabulaires verkent die gebruikt worden in massamedia. In de loop van het programma zal Axel Linderholm in de voorruimte van de W139 zijn werk ontwikkelen.

Try-Rotting: Final Presentation

We want to welcome you to the first public try-out of 0000-00-00, bringing together all the materials developed during Para-siting.

19:00: doors open
20:00: performance

Our 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. 

Admission to this event is by voluntary donation, which can be paid at the door. We recommend a donation of €3 to €5.

Nina Pushkareva—Softrot and co-founder of dance collective Trevoga—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.

Neda 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.

Manshee 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.

Rot-in-Progress: Open Rehearsal

Join us for an open rehearsal of 0000-00-00: unfinished scenes, technical try-outs, still-ambiguous atmospheres, and, hopefully, mastered tracks. 

You can sign up here to attend the rehearsal and participate in the feedback session that follows.

Our Para-siting space and our toilets are on the first floor, which is only accessible via a set of stairs.

Our normal ticket prices are applicable for this event. For more info on opening times, accessibility or ticket prices, see Contact & Visit. 

Nina Pushkareva—Softrot and co-founder of dance collective Trevoga—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.

Neda 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.

Manshee 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.

Rotmaxxing Home: Listening Session

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. 

Visitors can enter the space throughout the afternoon.

Our Para-siting space and our toilets are on the first floor, which is only accessible via a set of stairs.

Our normal ticket prices are applicable for this event. For more info on opening times, accessibility or ticket prices, see Contact & Visit. 

Nina Pushkareva—Softrot and co-founder of dance collective Trevoga—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.

Neda 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.

Manshee 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.

All That Remains (The Right of Return)

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.

The 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?

This event will be held in English.

Ticket: €7,50
Student and solidarity ticket: €5

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Inas 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. 

Image: The demolished village of Beyt ‘Itab, Palestine, 2024. From The Right of Return / All That Remains, an ongoing project by Inas Halabi.

ADE x DARKMATTER: Sapodilla

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. 

Sapodilla 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.

Named 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.

This event will be held in English.

Ticket: €10
Student and solidarity ticket: €7,50
Free for ADE Pro passholders.

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Plum Road Tea Dream_The Hangout

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.

This event will be held in English.

Ticket: €10
Student and solidarity ticket: €7,50

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Samuel 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.

Lawil 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.

Image: still from Plum Road Tea Dream (2026) by Samuel Baidoo.

20–23°C / 50% RH

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.

Moving 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.

This event will be held in English.

Ticket: €10
Student and solidarity ticket: €7,50

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Aram 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.

Merapi 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.

Image: 350,000 Leaks (Griefs) (2024) by Aram Lee, documentation of the live radio broadcast at Wereldmuseum Amsterdam.