Online – W139

DIWAN talks: Institutional Solidarity

DIWAN for Arts and Dialogue deals with urgencies and pressing questions which the art field, institutions, and practitioners are confronted with. For our second event we aim to respond and reflect on institutional solidarity, especially as it has come into focus during the last weeks due to the escalating violence against the Palestinian people.

DIWAN will be sharing a physical space with the students of Disarming Design and opening up the conversation across radio waves and digital channels with students, artists and cultural practitioners—independent as well as institutional workers.

Our aim is to engage in an open conversation about the role of art and educational institutions in regards to struggles for liberation. What are our expectations and underlying assumptions of the institutions that we are a part of? How, and to what extent, can the institution carry, support, and care for the multiplicity of voices within it? What are the ethical responsibilities of institutions? How can they be held accountable for their implementation of decolonial and political practices (or the lack of)?

The event will be moderated by members of DIWAN, PUB radio and Sandberg students.

For this event, we are being hosted by PUB radio, a trans-departmental initiative funded and run by students of the Sandberg Institute. You can listen to the conversations via pub.sandberg.nl.

DIWAN for Arts and Dialogue is a platform co-initiated by Fadwa Naamna, Hilda Moucharrafieh, Ehsan Fardjadniya, Margarita Osipian, and Emirhakin, and works in collaboration with the W139 artistic core group (2021-2023).

DIWAN for Arts and Dialogue aims at supporting young contemporary art and design practitioners, especially those in the diaspora, in the development of their projects and artistic practice. The platform’s foundational focus is to facilitate navigating the Dutch art scene for post-graduate artists and curators, and tackle the collective struggles of residency permits, housing, and project funding, amongst others. DIWAN departs from the common experiences of its founders and seeks to stimulate public discursive events and knowledge exchanges that relate to these issues.

DIWAN talks: Residence Permit for Self-employed Artists

DIWAN for Arts and Dialogue deals with urgencies and pressing questions which the art field, institutions, and practitioners are confronted with. For our third event, we aim to shed light and inform ourselves on the application procedure for acquiring a residence permit for self-employed artists. How do you get a residence permit to work as an artist in the Netherlands? What are the requirements and costs for applying? What are the important points you need to focus on for making a fool-proof application? When do you need to get started with preparing your application?

If you are a non-EU art student who just graduated or if you are almost reaching the end of your search-year (zoekjaar) visa, this session will help you to orientate your next steps towards staying in the Netherlands. DIWAN invites immigration lawyer Nikki Vreede who has experience in assisting non-EU creatives in applying for their artist residence permit. She will share information with us about the procedure towards applying for this specific residence permit: who can apply, what is the paperwork needed, what are the costs, how long does it take to get a response, and what happens after receiving the response, in case of rejection or approval. The session will be divided to include ample time for direct and case-specific questions from the participants.

The event will be moderated by members of DIWAN with the support of the W139 team. You can watch the recording on YouTube here

16:00 – 16:15 Introduction by DIWAN members, laying out the topic
16:15 – 16:45 Nikki Vreede’s presentation
16:45 – 17:00 Break-out rooms
17:00 – 17:30 Public questions from the participants

Nikki Vreede is a lawyer at Everaert Immigration Lawyers in Amsterdam. She mainly assists private individuals, especially in the field of family migration, permanent residence, withdrawal of residence rights, public order issues and residence permits based on humanitarian grounds. Nikki also advises on employment-based immigration. She assists highly skilled migrants and self-employed persons, especially in the creative sector: artists, musicians, dancers, as well as companies that want to become a recognized sponsor to hire highly skilled migrants. Nikki teaches for the Training and Study Centre for the Judiciary on various topics of Immigration Law.

Related Events

DIWAN talks: First Event

This first DIWAN event is aimed at mapping and understanding the particular urgencies and issues that postgraduate artists and cultural workers confront in the first years after their graduation. This meeting is an invitation for people who are now in this position, or have been through it before, so that we can share these experiences in a collective setting. DIWAN is based on the belief that openly sharing and discussing can be effective tools to confront, deal with, and navigate such challenges. We invite everyone to take part in this online round table and to share their thoughts in this regard.

Throughout these events, we will strive to build a public database of common questions and issues that migrant art practitioners are confronted with, along with references and leads towards resolving them.

Tonight’s event will be co-moderated by Fadwa Naamna and Margarita Osipian.

Joining the conversation will be Hilda Moucharrafieh and Emirhakin. Image and Streaming: Ehsan Fardjadniya and Bob Schoo.

Due to the Covid-19 regulations, the event will be held online.

Note: If you want to just watch and listen to the event, without taking part by sharing your experiences or questions, or if you cannot connect to the Zoom link because of maximum capacity, please follow the W139 YouTube channel and Facebook page for live streaming.

DIWAN is initiated by Fadwa Naamna, Hilda Moucharrafieh, and Ehsan Fardjadniya, in collaboration with Margarita Osipian and Sam Samiee from the W139 artistic core group (2021-2023).

Sisters of The Wind

A collective world-building journey to revive our earthly interconnections. A work by Juliette Lizotte aka jujulove.

Sisters.°·

Let me take you to my world.•º

Sisters of the Wind is the fruit of an artistic research on witches, ecofeminism, and science-fiction carried out between 2018 and 2021. It is a story woven through seven videos to be experienced in two distinct ways: as an online world-building workshop and role play session or as an interactive audiovisual performance.

Sisters… ˜o˚ ’’.)* ‘ ’’.’··º ° ’’ ’ ‘ ·‘ ‘0’ .º•.· ·.˜ *,’,˚˚ ˚oº°•˜ The wind is returning, as it always does. Sometimes it blows so hard that it carries artifacts away from the cities it tore apart, seeds from far away places, trees that didn’t have enough time to grow stronger… That’s why you always seek a protected area to settle in, relocating as the wind comes and goes in waves. You are witches. You pay attention to the world and try to make sense of this life together through the phases of the moon from maiden to mother to crone. In your community, the feminine spirit dominates, and all gender expressions are celebrated. When your precarious life is threatened by an unsettling prophecy announcing a deadly wind that will prepare the earth for a new cycle, will you go on a journey to find the source of this wind? What will you discover on the way? How will this transform you, your sisters, and the earth forever?

Let’s embark together on this wonderful adventure!

In the current context of the global pandemic, it is important to find new and safe ways of being together and reinforce our bonds. This experience was imagined as a physical one, nevertheless it feels as relevant to adapt it for an online format to reinvent ways to feel close to each other and to the world around us.

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jujulove

Read: In conversation with Juliette Lizotte about Sisters of the Wind by Emma van Meyeren.

Online world-building workshop and role play session

Thursday 25 February | 15-18h

Saturday 27 February | 15-18h

You are warmly invited into my world to make it yours, and expand it together! Dive into the wonderful world of Sisters of the Wind, get to embody one of the witches that inhabits it…

Three hours Session on jitsi and etherpad. No prior knowledge or experience of role play required.

Interactive audiovisual performance live on Twitch

Wednesday 24 February | 17.30h
Friday 26 February | 17.30h
Sunday 28 February | 14.30
with a special performance with Annabel Reid.

Join an interactive journey through the world of Sisters of the Wind as it is being reimagined day by day during the workshop sessions.

Bio

jujulove is a world builder, an ecofeminist, a witch, an oracle… Inspired by feminist science fiction, manga, pop culture & fantasy, jujulove opens a parallel world of her own at 170bpm.

jujulove aka Juliette Lizotte is a video maker, designer and DJ based in Amsterdam, as well as an active member of Hackers & Designers.

Credits

Videos imagined, directed and edited by Juliette Lizotte
Costumes by Karen Huang
Make up by Elisabeth Mesnier
3D animation in collaboration with Philip Ullman
Movement research and choreography for Nightflight in collaboration with Annabel Reid
Screenplay development for the Abyss in collaboration with Antonia Brell
Starring: Annabel Reid, Beatriz Conefrey, Clémence Hilaire, Gregoire Devidal, Ivan Cheng, Juliette Lizotte, Karen Huang, Luan Barros, Manfreddi Coppolecchia, Sanae Oujjit, Sumin Lee, and Susan Kooi.
Original Soundtrack by jujulove in collaboration with Fabian Reichle and with the support of Arif Kornweitz
Role play development with the generous support of Susan Ploetz
Performance development with the kind mentoring of Joy Mariama Smith, Costume by Karen Huang, shoes by limo hair, make up by Elisabeth Mesnier.
Set Design in collaboration with Fabulous Future
Typography: Impakt Nieuw 2019 and Spooky Hairy by Jung Lee Typefoundry

Thank you to: Margarita Osipian, Rosa Poelmans, Melanie Bonajo, Manon Bachelier, Georgie Sinclair, Jo Kali, Emma van Meyeren, Anja Groten, Daniel van der Velden

This project is made possible with the kind support of the Talent Development Grant of Stimuleringsfonds.

Love for Sale / Alles moet weg? & The Love Marathon

In the first week of February, 170 artists donated their work for the online auction, offering a chance to stand stronger together against the reality of defunding and the threat of shutting down W139, the iconic and historical art institution of Amsterdam!

This Valentines’ Day, reveal your love by placing your bids in the upcoming online auction, Dead Darlings #13 — Love for sale / Alles Moet Weg? Follow this link for your preview and account registration.

All works will begin at the starting price of 50 euro. Bidding starts at 12:00 on February 12th, and closes at 18:00 sharp on February 14th. The last hour of the auction can be followed live via the Stampa videocast marathon.

Dead Darlings: “The auction is anonymous, adding excitement to the event, democratising the works, and helping to demonstrate that their value here, –in this context– is determined not by the art market, but by their contribution to our community, and the love they reflect from their makers and convey into their future homes.”

Talkshow Stampa #15: The Love Marathon
Special edition

Stampa hosts Sacha Bronwasser and Gover Meit (a.ka. Stefano Keizers) will present a non-stop eight-hour talk show to support W139. Centred around the online auction, main themes of the talkshow will include a.o.: art in a city that is under pressure due to corona, high rents, and the importance of a free art space in the centre of Amsterdam – one that is not filled with doughnuts and waffles.

With numerous guests from the artistic, cultural and media field, including a.o.:

Janny Albers
director NV Zeedijk

Theodoor van Boven
founding director Condomerie

Ann Demeester
director Frans Hals Museum / former director W139

Jacqueline Grandjean
director Oude Kerk

Lidewij de Koekoek
director Rembrandthuis

Jean Bernard Koeman
artist and former director W139

Fadwa Naamna
curator researcher / core group W139

Margarita Osipian
curator, researcher en schrijver / core group W139

Bart Rutten
director Centraal Museum

Margriet Schavemaker
artistic director Amsterdam Museum

Rein Wolfs
director Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Ben Zegers
head of bachelor education Rietveld Academy

Many thanks to the participating artist, Dead Darlings, Stampa, and everyone who is going to join the auction. We are delighted by your support!

Ad de Jong, Afke Dam, Airco Caravan, Aldo Kroese, Alex Fischer, Alexandra Phillips, Alice Heron, André Avelãs, Andrea Simal, Anika Schwarzlose, Annaleen Louwes, Anne-Laure Ruffin, Aquil Copier, Arja Hop & Peter Svenson, Arthur Guilleminot, Arto van Hasselt, Asher Coady, Atelier Van Lieshout, Aukje Dekker & Geert Jan Jansen, Barbara Rink, Bas van den Hurk & Jochem van Laarhoven & Bo Stokkermans, Baukje Spaltro, Benjamin Francis, Brent Dahl, Brian D McKenna, Carmen Gray, Carmen Schabracq, Catharina Vergeer, Cécile Tafanelli, Charlott Markus, Chris Rijk, Claire Bamplekou, Claudette van de Rakt, Daan Couzijn, Daniel Walwin, Danielle Alhassid, Delta van Melle & Violaine Chapallaz, Diego Diez, Dora Lionstone, Eduardo Rojo, Elena Rosa, Elsa-Louise Manceaux, Emily Kocken, Erik Kessels, Fabian Landewee, Femke Moedt, Fiona Tan, Floor Meijers, Francisco Mojica, Geer van der Klugt, George Korsmit & Saskia Janssen, Giorgos Gripeos, Guda Koster & Frans van Tartwijk, Hangfeng Chen, Hanna Mattes, Hannah Jacques, Hans de Tweede, Hans Kuiper, Harald Schole, Hepacan, Ian de Ruiter, Ilona Plaum, Irina Birger, Iris Kensmil, James Beckett, Jean Bernard Koeman, Jean-Philippe Paumier, Jelte Reinders, Jeroen Jongeleen, Jeroen ter Welle, Jessie Yingying Gong, Jim Klok, Joep Neefjes / LPI, John Körmeling, Joran van Soest, Joris Landman, Jos Houweling, Judith Witteman, Julia Walter, julius frodermann, Just Quist, Kaspar Dejong, Katja de Vries, Konstantin Guz, Koos Buster, Laura Grimm, Lea Adriaans, Lena Shafir, Lieve Hakkers, Lily Lanfermeijer & Joseph Hughes, Lisa Sudhibhasilp, Lisette Ros, Lois Richard, Lonneke de Groot, Lorena van Bunningen, Lyubov Matyunina, Mandra Wabäck, Marcel van den Berg, Margot Domart, Margriet van Breevoort, María Naidich & Sylvia van den Ouwelant, Marie Civikov, Mariëlle Videler, Marijn van Kreij, Mathilde muPe, Matthias Tharang, Maurice van Daalen, Megan Auður, Meis Vranken, Melanie Bonajo & herman de vries, Melanie Ouwehand, Millie Rose Dobree, Misha de Ridder, Nicolas Roses Ponce & Naqia Esufa Lee & Richard John & Matthew G Day & Setareh Fatehi & Tomislav Feller & Elisa Zuppini & Antonia Steffens & Nadja Voorham & Ginta Tinte & Moa Holgersson, Nikos Doulos, Noa Giniger, Noé Cottencin, Nynke Deinema, Odette Muijsers, OORBEEK, Orna Wertman, Oscar Peters, Paraskevi Frasiola, Patricia Werneck Ribas, Patrick Niemann, Pendar Nabipour, Peter Spaans, Phoebe Pryor, Pieter W Postma, PJ Bruyniks, Polly’s Picture Show, Rika Maja Duevel, Riley Harmon, Robert Pennekamp, Roberto Perez Gayo & Gabriel .A. Maher, Roman Tkachenko, Ruchama Noorda, Ruth van Beek, Safira Taylor, Sam Hersbach, Sanne Kabalt, Schulz & Weise, Serena Rossi, Serge Onnen, Serge Verheugen, Simon Marsiglia, Sonia Mangiapane, Sophie Spekle, Stéphanie Baechler, Su Melo, Sylvie Zijlmans & Hewald Jongenelis, Tamara van der Leek, Tania Theodorou, Tatjana Macic, Thomas Manneke, Timo van Grinsven, Tina Sejbjerg, Tzvetana Tchakarova, Uta Eisenreich, Veerle van Rossom, Vincent Knopper, Wall-Russ, Wim van den Camp, Wineke Gartz, Xiyu Tomorrow, Yang-Ha, Yasser Ballemans, Yvonne Dröge Wendel, Zane Žeivate

Stampa #14

Presented by Sacha Bronwasser and Gover Meit. Live at W139 and as a live stream via Stampa’s YouTube channel.

4 x per year: The Amsterdam talk show about art and issues in art. Stampa is curated by Bob Witman and Sacha Bronwasser, in collaboration with W139, space for contemporary art, copyright organization Pictoright and with the support of the Stokroos Foundation. The talk show is produced by De Designpolitie.

This 14th edition of Stampa has the following guests, amongst others: Erik Kessels, Mette Sterre, Hanneke Wetzer, Edo Dijksterhuis and Simon Wald-Lasowski. Presentation by Sacha Bronwasser & Gover Meit (Stefano Keizers).

Solidarity Sessions #2

A vestzak-broekzak operation is an unnecessarily complex economic system where money is being pumped around, with most of it ending up back where it came from. How is the cultural sector part of these money flows—from the vest pocket to the pant’s pocket?

In Solidarity Sessions #1, we focused on the overall impact of the corona crisis on cultural workers, independent exhibition spaces, institutions, and the webs of networks around them. For our second session we’ll focus in on the housing and studio rental issues that are coming up for cultural workers, and what that reveals about the larger systemic power structures on which the cultural economy operates. It’s only by seeing the bigger picture that we can understand what we need to do to change.

Join us live via W139’s YouTube channel on Thursday June 11th, at 8 p.m, for an informational, interactive livestream about the current broedplaatsen and housing situation in the Netherlands and its precarity, fragility, and inequality (which the current crisis has made more visible).

We will be joined by cultural workers, lawyers, and representatives of advocacy organizations. During this session, we’ll be sharing:

Testimonies by artists and cultural workers who are facing urgent problems with studio/housing spaces.
How the crisis is being used as a way to increase rents or evict people from their homes or studios.
What rights tenants (either for studios and studio/living spaces) have, or rather do not have, during the covid-19 crisis.
How artist-run buildings are organised—in contrast to the broedplaatsen, which are management-led—and how they are supporting cultural workers during this time.
The larger picture of how money flows within the cultural sector and how much cultural funding actually goes to paying rent, rather than paying artists and cultural workers.
What direct actions we can take towards collective emancipation.

This session is organised by a collaborative effort from Platform Beeldende Kunst and W139, and has been initiated by Margarita Osipian. W139 is virtually hosting the event within the exhibition ‘market’. We hope that in this space we can openly share questions, concerns, and fears, and stand in stronger solidarity with one another. The audience can participate in the Q+A period through the YouTube chat.

Speakers will include Jeremy Bierbach from Franssen Advocaten who are experts in immigration law, Platform BK who are representing artists and cultural organisations and are lobbying on a local and national level, artist Tatjana Macić who has been doing research about studio policy for Platform BK, and Remco Osório Lobato from Stroom Den Haag.

Contributing cultural workers include tenants from WOW Amsterdam, Square 28, and Lood6, Ehsan Fardjadniya, and Julia Sokolnicka. Elke Uitentuis and Alhady will be joining to speak about the struggle for basic rights by refugee collective Wij Zijn Hier.

Solidarity Sessions #1

What issues are cultural workers, independent exhibition spaces, institutions, and the webs of networks around them, facing in light of the corona-crisis? Join us live via W139’s YouTube channel on Wednesday May 6th, at 8pm, for an info session and open conversation on the corona-crisis and the cultural sector for artists and cultural workers.

This is an informational, interactive livestream about the current situation in the Netherlands in regards to COVID-19 and its impact on the art and cultural sector. We will be joined by several cultural workers, a lawyer, and a union representative. During this session, we’ll be discussing:

Personal stories about the situations cultural workers are facing now. What work is being done in living rooms and on balconies around the country?
The current situation with governmental support systems, such as TOZO and TOGS, including possible (legal) pitfalls.
Obstacles and opportunities for funding for the cultural field, specifically for self-employed cultural workers.
What the different organisations and platforms are doing and working on to help you.
What the (near) future might look like and how we can plan for it.

This session is organised by a collaborative effort from Platform BK, Salwa Foundation, and W139, and has been initiated by Margarita Osipian. W139 is virtually hosting the event. In this art space a group of makers are working through this lock down and will set up a virtual environment where we can come together in their exhibition market. We hope that in this space we can openly share questions, concerns, and fears, and stand in stronger solidarity with one another. Speakers will include Jeremy Bierbach from Franssen Advocaten who are experts in immigration law, and Platform BK and Kunstenbond who are representing cultural workers and organisations and are lobbying on a local and national level. Contributing cultural workers include Eshan Fardjadniya, Alina Lupu, Julia Sokolnicka, and Yara Said. More speakers to be confirmed.

We want to share all the available information out there with you, we feel it is important to hear cultural workers’ voices in this session, and we want to ask you to send in your questions to us, so we can take them into account in preparing our answers for you. You can email us until 5pm on May 5th with your questions at info@w139.nl

Stampa #10

Important for our English speaking audience; Stampa will be moderated in Dutch. Text only available in Dutch.

Het is alweer de tiende editie van Stampa in W139, ditmaal in de tentoonstelling It Happens Anyway, met wederom vele gasten en onderwerpen die Sacha Bronwasser en Gover Meit aansnijden met het aanwezige publiek in de zaal en de gasten.

Met een performance van Willem de Haan, mode van AMFI Graduate Katja Ravina, nieuwe werken van Alexandra Phillips & Anouk Griffioen. Wil de echte Penozakunstenares Nathalie van Walraven opstaan?De campagne ‘Raak of Vermaak’ is gestart, initiatiefnemer Johan Idema is te gast. We spreken met cultuurcorrespondent Anne van Driel live vanuit Brooklyn. En natuurlijk de laatste transfers in de kunstwereld, De Actuele Kwestie en het kunstnieuws van de afgelopen tijd.

Stampa is een actuele kunsttalkshow in W139: voor, met en over kunstenaars. De talkshow wordt gemaakt in samenwerking met Pictoright, auteursrechtenorganisatie voor beeldmakers, en met W139, ruimte voor hedendaagse kunst. Stampa wordt gepresenteerd door Sacha Bronwasser en co-host Gover Meit. More informatie op de website van Stampa.

Foto’s door Leo Veger.

Stampa #12

Important for our English speaking audience; Stampa is moderated in Dutch. Text only available in Dutch.

De kop van het nieuwe jaar gaat eraf met een nieuwe Stampa, met: Paul Rutger Bastiaan (Stealthpiano), Koos Buster (Clay God), Vincent Ludwig&Krystian Sokolowski (mode), Vincent Rietveld (Warme Winkel), en Brooklyn Live. Alles temidden van de spectaculaire W139 jubileumshow ‘ampersands‘. Hosting Sacha Bronwasser & Gover Meit.