Saturday 19 September:
Art & the Political Body

How does contemporary art respond to systems of power, surveillance and social control, and how do artists use their own bodies as political statements? We turn the lens on the art world itself: who determines what gets shown, who receives funding, and whose perspective shapes the narrative?

  • 13:00 Introduction and music by Lou Touyarou, cultural worker, DJ and possibilities open studio (pos) momber, researching structures of care, how care is held, distributed, or lost within the system we organise ourselves trough.

  • 13:45 Marianne van Tilborg, founder @ Lumen Travo Amsterdam, Atousa Bandeh & Thierry Oussou, both artists @ Lumen Travo Amsterdam

  • 14:00 Benjamin Carels curator of collective By and By and founder @ mad meg

  • 14:30 Music by Karmel Sabhri multidisciplinary artist, DJ, radio host, curator and creative force behind Baba Boys

  • 15:30 Panel Who Gets to Decide? Censorship & Modification in Art Messaging: Adil @ Not Shit Print, social justice print shop, Rex Collins, trans non binary performance artist, using their body as art medium & Lucas Lugarinho, artist @ Upstream Gallery

  • 16:15 Todor Rabadzhiyski & Robin Whitehouse (artists @ Dürst Britt & Mayhew)

  • 17:00. Cathelijne Blok (art historian, journalist and founder of art platform The TittyMag)

Friday 18 September:
Somewhere To Call Home

We ask how artists and curators imagine and examine questions of belonging, migration, community and diaspora: who gets to belong somewhere, and how does art express the search for a place to call home.

  • 13:00 Introduction and music by Kween, Ghaith Kween Qoutainy is a Syrian–Dutch composer, sound artist, performer, cultural curator/programmer, and producer. Concerned with meaning-making space through academic, artistic and empirical research.

  • 13:45 Aditi Singh artist @ South Asian Contemporary Art Amsterdam

  • 14:00 Pauline Burmann, founder & director of AAAT: African Arts And Theory

  • 14:30 Music by Slimfit

  • 15:30 Panel discussion The Places We Carry: Slimfit, DJ, curator, sound artist, Samanta Batra Mehta artist @ South Asian Contemporary Art Amsterdam and Manique Hendricks curator of contemporary art @ Frans Hals Museum

  • 16:30 Museum het Schip

  • 17:15 Narges Mohammadi, artist @ Copperfield

Sunday 20 September:
Roots to Rites:
Ecology, Folklore & the Imagination

We uncover how contemporary art returns to folkloric traditions, rituals and the liminality of imagination, and how artists, curators and researchers question the relationship between humanity, nature and pre-colonial lessons of guardianship.

  • 13:00 Introduction and music by DEBORAH X, sustainability researcher at UvA, DJ, 1/3 of Ampfeminine and radio host.

  • 13:45 Laurie Cluitmans, director @ Nestcentre for contemporary art in The Hague

  • 14:00 Ruta Butkute, artist @ Bradwolff & Partners

  • 14:15 Ranye, DJ storyteller and creative

  • 14:30 Music by Ranye

  • 15:30 Panel What the Land Remembers: Dr. Jop Koopman, anthropologist, sound enthusiast and lecturer & researcher at VU, Emma Hansson, Sustainability and Impact Manager at SEA Water & Margherita Pedrotta artist @ NP ArtLab

  • 16:15 Aniketh Khutia artist and researcher of philosophy & epistemology, focus on folk narratives & sound cultures

  • 16:45 Éric Giraudet de Boudemange artist @ Martin van Zomeren