Workshop – W139

Warmoes Biënnale: tattooshop x verlangen

During the Warmoes Biënnale, mul-thee-fuhngk-shuh-nl will talk to waiting customers and passers-by about well-being. Stories, perspectives, and ideas on this topic will be collected during three pop-up editorial offices at the Effeness parcel point, Happy Inn Laundromat, and ORDER tattoo shop. At each location, they will address a different subtopic of well-being: pakketpunt x hechten, tattooshop x verlangen & wasserette x zoektocht. The findings will be published in three publications, which will be available in the participating pavilions of the Warmoes Biennale.

tattooshop x verlangen

The second editorial office of mul-thee-fuhngk-shuh-nl is setting up shop for a day at ORDER tattoo shop: a place where people sit for long periods of time or wait for their turn. This is a good moment to discuss what gives life meaning in a post-capitalist system. We collect definitions of meaning, investigate whether people consider themselves meaningful, and where the desire for meaning comes from. We collect stories, thoughts, wishes, the feeling of meaning in Warmoesstraat, tips and tricks for meaning, classified ads, and historical context about the welfare economy.

Mul-thee-fuhngk-shuh-nl is a collective that creates dynamic installations with a crossover between workshops, public space installations, and happenings through interactions with others. Their projects share a common focus on engaging with the environment and fostering exchanges with a diverse audience, generating new imaginaries around the contexts the projects take place in.

Warmoes Biënnale: pakketpunt x hechten

During the Warmoes Biënnale, mul-thee-fuhngk-shuh-nl will talk to waiting customers and passers-by about well-being. Stories, perspectives, and ideas on this topic will be collected during three pop-up editorial offices at the Effeness parcel point, Happy Inn Laundromat, and ORDER tattoo shop. At each location, they will address a different subtopic of well-being: pakketpunt x hechten, tattooshop x verlangen & wasserette x zoektocht. The findings will be published in three publications, which will be available in the participating pavilions of the Warmoes Biennale.

pakketpunt x hechten

The first editorial office for the three publications of Wie we welzijn is located at parcel point Giftshop Effeness. Here, mul-thee-fuhngk-shuh-nl will discuss materialistic satisfaction in relation to Warmoesstraat as a centuries-old center for trade. While you wait for your parcel, there is just enough time for self-reflection, an existential crisis, or a mental breakdown. What did I order again?

In addition to collecting the contents of packages, we ask questions such as: do you have what you want? Where does this desire for more come from? How do we position ourselves in a world that revolves around accumulating wealth and possessions? How do your possessions possess you? We collect reviews, stories, (un)realistic classified ads for (more) stuff, the best object you can own.

Warmoes Biënnale: wasserette x zoektocht

During the Warmoes Biënnale, mul-thee-fuhngk-shuh-nl will talk to waiting customers and passers-by about well-being. Stories, perspectives, and ideas on this topic will be collected during three pop-up editorial offices at the Effeness parcel point, Happy Inn Laundromat, and ORDER tattoo shop. At each location, they will address a different subtopic of well-being: pakketpunt x hechten, tattooshop x verlangen & wasserette x zoektocht. The findings will be published in three publications, which will be available in the participating pavilions of the Warmoes Biennale.

wasserette x zoektocht

On April 4, mul-thee-fuhngk-shuh-nl will arrive at Laundromat Happy Inn, where the third editorial office will be located. Here, they will be discussing community. How do people relate to each other? What does it mean to belong to a community? And how do you find one? What is a community, anyway? Do you ever run errands for your neighbor, or do you secretly not know who she is? Can we read the future of community in the Warmoesstraat in the clean laundry? What has your dirty laundry been through? We collect utopias, reviews about neighbors, advertisements from entrepreneurs promoting their contribution to the community, and classified ads for social contacts.

Warmoes Biënnale: Wie we welzijn

During the Warmoes Biënnale, mul-thee-fuhngk-shuh-nl will talk to waiting customers and passers-by about well-being. Where does this issue stand in Amsterdam’s city center? What factors influence it? Stories, perspectives, and ideas on this topic will be collected during three pop-up editorial offices at the Effeness parcel point, Happy Inn Laundromat, and ORDER tattoo shop. At each location, they will address a different subtopic of well-being: parcel point x attachment, tattoo shop x desire, and laundromat x search. The findings will be published in three publications, which will be available in the participating pavilions of the Warmoes Biennale.

In the editorial office and in the publications, we will explore how we can look at our surroundings differently while waiting. The Warmoesstraat and its surroundings are a playground for imagining new ways of being and other uses for space beyond the functional. The editorial offices and publications are places where we look at things differently, question our surroundings, search for something that is not there, and create our own imaginings.

About the Warmoes Biënnale

For two months, artists, entrepreneurs, cultural institutions, and residents join forces to reveal the pulse of this neighbourhood. With art ranging from intimate to monumental—often in surprising locations—alongside events and genuine local hospitality, the festival offers a new perspective on this contested, yet deeply loved part of the city.

For more information, visit the website of the Warmoes Biënnale.

Gossib Gathering

Gossib Gathering is a research-oriented workshop that explores what shared care and community around parenting could look like today. This edition invites fathers, brothers; sons, uncles, friends, and allies—all people who were raised or are perceived as men—to reflect on their role in pregnancy, birth, care, and shared responsibility.

By using manual crafts—quilting and embroidery—as a meditative method, we create space for attentive conversations about parenting, emotional labor, and the social and cultural systems that shape our ideas about care and family. The workshop explores which support practices have been lost, which we can revive, and how we can develop new forms of solidarity and responsibility today.

The name “Gossib” refers to the Old English Godsibb, or “relative/spiritual neighbor.” In this workshop, we reclaim the word as a role of listening, caring, and supportive alliance. This edition, in collaboration with Hannah Kindler, focuses specifically on people who do not give birth themselves and invites reflection and practice around shared care and community.

The gathering is free or you can “pay what you can” we suggest an amount between €5 – €20.

Sanne Freijdag is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher working with textile, installation, film, and photography. Her practice opens a space where the “natural” is questioned as a human construct, examining traditions and rituals as recent formations shaped by productivity. Through embodied and material research, she explores care, interdependence, and collective memory.

Hannah Kindler is an artist whose practice explores feminist knowledge, care and embodied memory through textiles, sculpture, performance and media. Drawing on archival research and historical imagery, her work examines how power, gender and material histories are inscribed, transmitted and disrupted through bodies and objects. She lives and works in Freiburg, Germany.

FLUSH #8: Frontera Amarilla

Faced with the tedium of patients who, time and again, return to receive a treatment that remains perpetual; with the side effects endured by some people living with HIV in Latin America due to low-cost medication, the privileges and restrictions in access, the logic of the pharmaceutical market, or the difficulties of migrating with HIV—Los Amarillos (a self-organized artistic collective from Colombia) propose and construct images that embody the demand, the desire, and the sacredness of bodies living with the virus.

The relationship with it becomes language and affective resistance—intimate yet collective, poetic proclamations that invite us to think of HIV not as an illness, but as a political symptom.

It’s about diagnosing utopias, to keep dreaming of a moving revolution. This room does not heal: it burns.

Colectivo Los Amarillos has carried out exhibitions, research, performances, and creative writing laboratories during the autumn of this year in several European cities as part of Frontera Amarilla, and now arrives in Amsterdam to open a space for denunciation, memory, and the celebration of dissident bodies.

Programme
Opening FLUSH #8: FRONTERA AMARILLA (at W139)
— Saturday 8 November, 19:00-22:00

Workshop with Colective Los Amarillos
— Monday 10 November, 18:30-20:30

Artist talk with Colective Los Amarillos (at Rietveld Academie)
— Thursday 13 November, 17:00-19:00

Production: Espacio Estamos Bien
Graphic design: Dun Lee
Text: Lou Vives

With the support of Monstrous Futurities, Romany Dear, and Kyle Tryhorn.

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.

Para-siting: Tempodesert

Desert Without Sand: Sequential Practices is a space for contemplation and investigation into the desert as both a physical landscape, an abstract concept, and a site for speculation. Through a cluster of activities, including performative reading, public events, and mapping and diagramming workshops, Sequential Practices aims to navigate and discuss multiple performative practices approaching to the desert’s complexity.

Desert Without Sand came out of urgency to negotiate the multiplicity of the desert as a space of fugitivity, a land of resistance, as space of hermeticism, as nature, as un-nature, as site of erasure, as site of emergence, as stage for speculative futures, as memory keeper, as a map of silence and echoes, as witness, as site of grief, as myth, as home, as desert.

Friday 10 October — First Sequence
Friday 17 October — Second Sequence
Saturday 25 October — Third Sequence
Friday 31 October — Fourth Sequence

Tempodesert is a performance-based collaboration between Fay Aldhukair and Mohamed Abdelkarim, with occasional contributions from others. It emerged after experiencing the world “after 8/8,” a term coined when Fay and Abdelkarim watched The Draw of the Desert 8/8 Seminar by Iranian philosopher Reza Negarestani on March 15, 2024.

They operate as a performative lab, poetically exploring the holistic and layered temporalities of the desert, geological, ephemeral, eternal, and mythological. Through various mediums such as performances, plays, texts, songs, films, publications, workshops, and walks, Tempodesert seeks to investigate, reclaim, and liberate the desert from colonial narratives and imposed perceptions.

Desert Without Sand: Sequential Practices was made possible by Ettijahat and CBK Rotterdam.

Amsterdam Conference of Autonomous Book-Makers

“To create is to resist”, the more so when we do it together. On the last day of Spooktember, come in to make your own buttons or screenprint your clothes, while we’re joined by other autonomous and anarchist book and zine crafters to provide a mini book and zine fair!

Spookstad is a publishing collective that emerged from the squatting movement in Amsterdam. They make books in close collaboration with various activist collectives.

Between Palestine and Us: publishing in the service of solidarity

The student encampments of 2024 marked a first global wave of mass mobilizations in support of Palestine and against Western complicity. On the basis of the Spookstad-published book about the student uprising in Amsterdam, we explore how art, writing and documentaries contribute to the Palestine solidarity movement, and how we can take it further.

Programme Saturday 20 September

14:30 — Mapping solidarity: interactive session hosted by Saja Amro. What is the role of art, cultural work, academia, and activism in the West, particularly in the Netherlands, in times of genocide? And how to strengthen our networks to avoid fragmentation and consolidate our strategies towards effective aims?

We will create a map together to serve as an active tool for documentation and strategy building. This session is a continuation of the Mapping Solidarity Project, in collaboration with platform BK. Please register by sending an email to hello@spookstad.boo.

16:00 — Film screening “Class outside”: a collective video diary capturing everyday moments of resistance, solidarity, and conflict, following the student encampments in Amsterdam during May 2024 and the various subsequent actions. By Aylin Kuryel, Fırat Yücel & Deniz Buga.

17:00 — Performance of “Dear, Comrade”, by Lila Swindles and Olga Tsyganova. A play about the student occupations, resistance, collectivity, and the attempt to not lose hope.

Program will also be part of Amsterdam Bangs Festival.

Spookstad is a publishing collective that emerged from the squatting movement in Amsterdam. They make books in close collaboration with various activist collectives.

Take Back Mokum: squatting, printing, and the right to the city

Against the forces of capital and the housing crisis, squatting is one of our best remaining tactics of resistance. It is also an inherently creative act, transforming buildings, public space, and potentially the whole city. Spooktember opens with the launch of our new zine about the Klokkenhof squat and invites you to explore together how to reclaim the right to the city.

Programme Saturday 13 September

18:00 — Expo opening! Launch of zine Permanence Through Print (made by Layla Gijsen & Boris, published by Spookstad), music by Big Toilet Radio, drinks, art, zines, books.

Programme Sunday 14 September

13:00 — Linocut workshop by Layla Gijsen. Free, but register by sending an email to: laylagijsen@gmail.com

16:00 — Film screening new video work by Yannesh Meijman, with a Q&A after.

Spookstad is a publishing collective that emerged from the squatting movement in Amsterdam. They make books in close collaboration with various activist collectives.