Tag: Para-siting

m(A)ke (M)e y(O)u(U)rs: Reading Club

When the old swords are being sharpened again, MANY finds themselves—as do many more—claiming LOVE as the antidote. But what if love and relationships as we learned them, are chained to the systems of violence we want to end? How can we exit the loop by loving, caring, and desiring differently?

These are the questions that bind us to the m(A)ke (M)e y(O)u(U)rs reading club, and the desire to share them with MANY. 

MANY is kicking off the reading club with four reading sessions on love, desire, and relationships at Para-siting. MANY will especially focus on DESIRE and how to de-link it from ownership and achievement.

This event is free of charge. 

Reserve your spot here!

For more information on accessibility see Contact & Visit.

MANY is an Amsterdam-based platform that emerges with a desire to de-link knowledge and artistic production from traditional notions of authorship. During Para-siting, MANY is configured by Aion Arribas, Ainhoa Hernández Escudero, Michael Scerbo, Jiji Jizu, the W139 team and the participants of the public activities, with the support of Artists Circle.

m(A)ke (M)e y(O)u(U)rs: Reading Club

When the old swords are being sharpened again, MANY finds themselves—as do many more—claiming LOVE as the antidote. But what if love and relationships as we learned them, are chained to the systems of violence we want to end? How can we exit the loop by loving, caring, and desiring differently?

These are the questions that bind us to the m(A)ke (M)e y(O)u(U)rs reading club, and the desire to share them with MANY. 

MANY is kicking off the reading club with four reading sessions on love, desire, and relationships at Para-siting. MANY will especially focus on DESIRE and how to de-link it from ownership and achievement.

This event is free of charge. 

Reserve your spot here!

For more information on accessibility see Contact & Visit.

MANY is an Amsterdam-based platform that emerges with a desire to de-link knowledge and artistic production from traditional notions of authorship. During Para-siting, MANY is configured by Aion Arribas, Ainhoa Hernández Escudero, Michael Scerbo, Jiji Jizu, the W139 team and the participants of the public activities, with the support of Artists Circle.

m(A)ke (M)e y(O)u(U)rs: Reading Club

When the old swords are being sharpened again, MANY finds themselves—as do many more—claiming LOVE as the antidote. But what if love and relationships as we learned them, are chained to the systems of violence we want to end? How can we exit the loop by loving, caring, and desiring differently?

These are the questions that bind us to the m(A)ke (M)e y(O)u(U)rs reading club, and the desire to share them with MANY. 

MANY is kicking off the reading club with four reading sessions on love, desire, and relationships at Para-siting. MANY will especially focus on DESIRE and how to de-link it from ownership and achievement.

This event is free of charge. 

Reserve your spot here!

For more information on accessibility see Contact & Visit.

MANY is an Amsterdam-based platform that emerges with a desire to de-link knowledge and artistic production from traditional notions of authorship. During Para-siting, MANY is configured by Aion Arribas, Ainhoa Hernández Escudero, Michael Scerbo, Jiji Jizu, the W139 team and the participants of the public activities, with the support of Artists Circle.

m(A)ke (M)e y(O)u(U)rs x PUB: Intro to Radio Tools

In this 1,5 hour workshop we will learn how to produce radio from scratch using minimal tools and resources. MANY will be teaming up with PUB, a trans-departmental initiative funded and run by students of the Sandberg Institute. 

For this event our normal ticket prices are applicable. 

Reserve your spot here!

For more information on ticket prices and accessibility, see Contact & Visit.

MANY is an Amsterdam-based platform that emerges with a desire to de-link knowledge and artistic production from traditional notions of authorship. During Para-siting, MANY is configured by Aion Arribas, Ainhoa Hernández Escudero, Michael Scerbo, Jiji Jizu, the W139 team and the participants of the public activities, with the support of Artists Circle.

m(A)ke (M)e y(O)u(U)rs x PUB: Live Radio Transmission

During this event the first pilot episode of m(A)ke (M)e y(O)u(R)s will air live. m(A)ke (M)e y(O)u(R)s will be a performative podcast series that explores love, desire, relationships, and the hidden infrastructures that choreograph our intimacies. For this event MANY will collaborate with PUB. 

For this event our normal ticket prices are applicable. 

Reserve your spot here!

For more information on ticket prices and accessibility, see Contact & Visit.

MANY is an Amsterdam-based platform that emerges with a desire to de-link knowledge and artistic production from traditional notions of authorship. During Para-siting, MANY is configured by Aion Arribas, Ainhoa Hernández Escudero, Michael Scerbo, Jiji Jizu, the W139 team and the participants of the public activities, with the support of Artists Circle.

Para-siting: m(A)ke (M)e y(O)u(R)s

m(A)ke (M)e y(O)u(R)s is a performative podcast series that explores love, desire, relationships, and the hidden infrastructures that choreograph our intimacies. Each chapter unfolds as a hybrid of podcast, performance, and research lab, recorded on video and staged live in theaters, galleries, festivals, and nightlife spaces. To sidestep familiar scripts, the interviewer and interviewee slip into characters, letting the conversation happen through role play and deliberate transformation.

This Para-siting project marks the very beginning of a shared process. MANY will activate the space as a site for gathering, researching, and experimenting. Operating as a semi-public programme, it will host open activities like a reading group and radio workshop, alongside private sessions for interviews and character-building.

MANY is an Amsterdam-based platform that emerges with a desire to de-link knowledge and artistic production from traditional notions of authorship. During Para-siting, MANY is configured by Aion Arribas, Ainhoa Hernández Escudero, Michael Scerbo, Jiji Jizu, and the participants of the public activities, with the support of Artists Circle.

Crippissage: A Healthy Gathering

During their time Para-siting, Pırıltı and Ilja tried to attend to herbs, bodies and urban ecologies, forming beautiful connections with the creatures whom they crossed paths with along the way. Pırıltı and Ilja continue to ask what it is that makes something crip, and how might we understand the inherent cripness of urban space with its feral and adaptive life forms? Gathering, processing and being with the resilient, vulnerable, humble and abundant plants of the city, they opened up a fantasy world within W139.

Starting from material health conditions, this final programme moves into an imaginative ecology shaped by contradictions and ambivalences around cultures of healing in the city. For whom and why do we need herbal medicinal knowledge? How can solidarities be shared, and which storytelling practices might lead to a crip imagination? 

We invite you to this closing minisymposium to be with Pırıltı and Ilja, and their guests. Pırıltı and Ilja will tend to the city’s microbiome, the sick garden, queer hormonal sewage ecosystems and sweet water mermaids. Urban folklore becomes a site to ask whether ecological wounding can be addressed through the bodies of rivers and humans, and whether storytelling can hold space for mourning. The gathering insists on staying with dirt, inequality and access to healthcare, holding together imagination and the conditions that shape it. Afterwards you are invited to taste and smell the many different things that Pırıltı and Ilja have been inviting into the space. 

The event is free.

Reserve your spot here!

Programme
17:00 – 17:20 Opening intro
17:20 – 17:40 Toni
17:40 – 18:00 Lynn
18:00 – 18:10 Pee break
18:10 – 18:30 Bogna
18:30 – 18:50 Maya
18:50 – 19:10 Q+A
19:10 – 20:00 Drinks, bites and fake healing corner

Toni Kritzer will talk about ‘The Sick Garden’ which entangles Toni’s story of illness with that of a garden in need of care, questioning narratives of illness and healing within ecosystems. Along with slugs, viruses, and other crip comrades, they speak of interdependency and more-than-human care webs. 

Lynn Shore will contribute by sharing insights into her urban dwelling, her foraging practice in the city, and the effects on her gut microbiome after one month of eating foraged food.

Bogna Bochińska will contribute a text and exercise on sweet water mermaids and urban folklore, exploring the urban mermaid and storytelling practices as ways of engaging with wounds and re-enacting magical creatures as tools for thinking.

Maya Erin Masuda‘s talk Pharmaco-pornographic: Toxic Queerness and Molecular Intimacy discusses how larger governing bodies permeate soft, individual boundaries from molecular scales, affecting our views on reproduction and bodily autonomy.

Pırıltı Onukar has been exploring the themes of belonging and community through experiential process-based and often situated multidisciplinary work, film, participatory performances, translation, farming and foraging. She is currently focusing most of her attention on the artist-run collective GROND Bajesdorp.

Ilja Schamlé is an artist and writer with an amateur herbal and social medicine practice, yet always stuck on when these things tip over from something liberatory into something lonely, esoteric and de-politicised. She is an all round janitor of a community and residency space called Massia. 

Accessibility info
Herbal safety: Consumption of herbs or salves during the event is entirely optional. We do not seek to offer medical advice as we are only learning and finding our ways in a vast field of knowledge. If you have any medical conditions or use medication please be well informed and approach the herbal preparations with caution. 

Wheelchair access: W139 is spread over two floors. The workshop, dinner, and evening events will all happen on the ground floor, which is wheelchair accessible. Our toilets are located on the first floor, which can only be reached via stairs. The Krasnapolsky Hotel, 150m away, at the start of the road (Dam Square), has agreed that our guests can use their wheelchair accessible restroom. For other questions regarding the accessibility of the building, please contact info@w139.nl.

Seating: There will be chairs, benches, or cushions available for everyone. 

Sound: The event will be held in English. There will be sound amplification for the talks.

Covid/infection safety: We ask everyone to do a covid self-test before entering the event space. There will be self-tests and face-masks available for free/on donation at the entrance of W139. Make sure not to consume food or drinks for 30min before testing, and to allow 15min for your test result to show. Mask wearing is encouraged.

If you are experiencing any covid/cold/flu symptoms on the day of the event, we will be sorry to miss you, but ask that you stay home and rest. 

Unfortunately, the budget for this event doesn’t allow for translation, sign language interpretation, or live image description.

Tasting Warmoesstraat

What does Warmoesstraat taste like? In one of the grittiest and most frequented streets of the touristic city of Amsterdam, many things are alive. What can thrive alongside the bodily fluids, trash, food waste and other substances can also thrive in our own bellies! Come taste what grows in, on and around Warmoesstraat.

Our Para-siting space is located on the first floor which can only be reached via a set of stairs. If you are visiting any of our public programme and you have any access needs, please let us know so we may try to accommodate best within our capacity. For this event our normal ticket prices are applicable. For more info see Contact & Visit.

Reserve your spot here!

Pırıltı Onukar has been exploring the themes of belonging and community through experiential process-based and often situated multidisciplinary work, film, participatory performances, translation, farming and foraging. She is currently focusing most of her attention on the artist-run collective GROND Bajesdorp.

Ilja Schamlé is an artist and writer with an amateur herbal and social medicine practice, yet always stuck on when these things tip over from something liberatory into something lonely, esoteric and de-politicised. She is an all round janitor of a community and residency space called Massia.

Urban Healing Fabulation: Participatory Performance

So, we have the herbs. We have the salves, the tinctures, the macerations and the fermentations. We have been asking questions about the witches put on trial just around the corner at the Dam square, finding out that we might not be too far away. But what does a modern day crip healer do? How and what do they heal? What is health anyway? Join us for a Healing Fabulation where we carefully listen to your problems and offer health to your late stage capitalism induced chronic conditions (!). 

Our Para-siting space is located on the first floor which can only be reached via a set of stairs. If you are visiting any of our public programme and you have any access needs, please let us know so we may try to accommodate best within our capacity. For this event our normal ticket prices are applicable. For more info see Contact & Visit.

Reserve your spot here!

Pırıltı Onukar has been exploring the themes of belonging and community through experiential process-based and often situated multidisciplinary work, film, participatory performances, translation, farming and foraging. She is currently focusing most of her attention on the artist-run collective GROND Bajesdorp.

Ilja Schamlé is an artist and writer with an amateur herbal and social medicine practice, yet always stuck on when these things tip over from something liberatory into something lonely, esoteric and de-politicised. She is an all round janitor of a community and residency space called Massia.

Cripothecary: Herb Processing and Solidarity Workshop

Join us for an open workshop where you get to become part of our lab, making your own concoctions. Inspired by the work of The Solidarity Apothecary (Herbalism and State Violence, Nicole Rose), we will humbly guide you through processing herbs that may be able to help with what makes us sick, anxious and inflamed. 

Our Para-siting space is located on the first floor which can only be reached via a set of stairs. If you are visiting any of our public programme and you have any access needs, please let us know so we may try to accommodate best within our capacity. For this event our normal ticket prices are applicable. For more info see Contact & Visit.

Reserve your spot here!

Pırıltı Onukar has been exploring the themes of belonging and community through experiential process-based and often situated multidisciplinary work, film, participatory performances, translation, farming and foraging. She is currently focusing most of her attention on the artist-run collective GROND Bajesdorp.

Ilja Schamlé is an artist and writer with an amateur herbal and social medicine practice, yet always stuck on when these things tip over from something liberatory into something lonely, esoteric and de-politicised. She is an all round janitor of a community and residency space called Massia.