Tag: Para-siting

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.

Starting at 20:00 – 00:00
Get your tickets here.
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

Para-siting: A Soft Guide to Chill

A Soft Guide To Chill is a series of events that incorporates archival research and knowledge exchange around the history of 90s chill out rooms. The programme will highlight the launch of BBTCOR’s website, artist scenography and installation, and conclude with an event during Amsterdam Dance Event with music, curated by Sarah Saleh and Claartje Barkhof, and editorial research by El Bickers.

On 9 October, there will be an inauguration event with the launch of BBTCOR’s website that disseminates knowledge around the history of 90s chill out rooms. 

On 24 October, 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 DJ, during the evening Archetype will perform his new album Nothing New Under The Sun, followed by a live performance by Amsterdam-based composer and sound artist Gizem Öz. The evening closes with Sarah Saleh, an interdisciplinary artist, DJ, and co-founder of BBTCOR.

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

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.

Para-siting: 0000-00-00

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.

Through 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.

Inflected 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? 

0000-00-00 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.

The 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.

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.

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.