WORLD

is a curated online space bringing WORLD to HOME/DAI and DAI/HOME to WORLD. Students, alumni, tutors, partners, friends and comrades are most welcome to send their announcements (visual+text separate from each other) to: WORLD@dutchartinstitute.eu

Defiant Muses ~ Delphine Seyrig and the Feminist Video Collectives of 1970s and 1980s France. Focusing on the emergence of video collectives in the 1970s, this exhibition (curated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez and Giovanna Zapperi and running till May 7, 2023) proposes to reconsider the history of the feminist movement in France through a set of media practices and looks at a network of creative alliances that emerged in a time of political turmoil and that were relevant far beyond France. Seyrig as well as actress and friend Jane Fonda, cinematographer and filmmaker Babette Mangolte, poet and painter Etel Adnan, artist, author and activist Kate Millett, or writer and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir appear as knitting nodes of a wider, plural, transnational fabric. Videos, films, artworks, costumes, photographs and archival documents are associated within sections that convey the multiple political concerns that the feminist movement was raising at this precise historical moment. The total of seven exhibition areas were conceived under the following titles: Undoing the Diva; Feminist Media Appropriation; Countering Normativity; Disobedient Practices; Transnational Struggles; Research Into The Anti-Psychiatry Movement; An Unfinished History. The topics negotiated therein resonate with a set of problems concerning art and politics today, as feminists keep on building alliances, rise against the film industry’s structural sexism, and challenge normative gender roles. Seyrig’s troubled positions in-between aesthetics (cinema, video) and work (profession, industry) are marked by a continuum between the actress and the activist thus reminding of the ongoing significance of the 1970s feminist slogan: “the personal is political.”

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Indonesia 1989 ~ "The Reform era might arguably be conceived as a point that was hoped to pave the way for a brand-new system of governance, where tyranny was doomed to end and a new chapter was fought for. The era kicked off with the culmination of political hostilities and dynamics taking place for years prior, giving birth to social movements on the basis of morale and a struggle for freedom. Many died in vain, went missing, or were deprived of a voice". ~ "REMEMBERING 25 YEARS OF REFORMATION is not (just) about the Reformation. Nor is it about glorification, especially at this point in our lives when we are still struggling for democracy” ~ this sentence opens the statement of an exhibition, spread over several art spaces in Yogyakarta and involving 33 cross-generational artists coming from a variety of cultural-politics backgrounds in Indonesia. Organised by Cemeti - Institute for Art and Society and curated by Alia Swastika, Dwiki Nugroho Mukti and Savitri Sastrawan.

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In their review of Yael Bartana’s film Two Minutes to Midnight (what if women ruled the world), Eli Witteman (DAI, 2022) who is currently doing an internship at MetropolisM asks: "does female leadership offer us a crucially different future ?". You can find their 2cents in the online text at MetropolisM (in Dutch only) ~ we publish the link here.

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BULLETIN ~ DAI Confluence nr. 4 ~ Essaouira, Morocco. April 17 till 27, 2024

Bulletins contain the complete, day-to-day program of a specific DAI Confluence.

ACADEMIC CALENDAR

our roaming trajectory 2023/2024 (page update: February 20, 2024)

Factory 2.0

Platform for elective courses, initiated and led by students for students ~ as part of the accredited curriculum

Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro's 2023-2024 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory:

Penumbra

2023-2024 COOP study group in partnership with ARCHIVE (Berlin, Dakar, Milan) ~ led by Chiara Figone & Samira Ghoualmia:

Choreopoethics: undisciplined corporeal publishing and choreographic planning

Hypatia Vourloumis' 2023-2024 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory:

Anticolonial Acts

Ana Teixeira Pinto's 2023-2024 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory:

Mean Girl Theory

23 & 24 May, 2024 ~ if you live in Zeeland or just happen to be around, we warmly welcome you to join us in Middelburg where our dear friend, writer, curator, educator Tirdad Zolghadr will team up with the Nomadic Curators Vleeshal 2024 -2025: League of Tenders ( Elena Ishchenko and Maria Saycheva) to respond to a wealth of questions and invocations by our students

Clara von Schantz, Yi-Hong Wang (Hong), Celeste Perret, Ania Yilmaz, Ian Nolan, Evija Kristopane, Rex Collins, Thamyres VM, Savva Dudin, Daniël van der Giessen, Federica Nicastro, Lena Pfäffli, Tomer Fruchter, Chloë Janssens, Francesca Pionati, Ivčo Ružić, Alva Roselius, Ariell Zéphyr, Tereza Darmovzalová, Vlio Velema, Christelle Makris, Qiaoling Cai, Antonia Truninger, Lisa Vlamings ~ Conversations-in-a-form: THE KITCHEN.

AEROPONIC ACTS 2024 ~ curated & anchored by Giulia Crispiani & Elisa Giuliano. August 1,2,3,4 ~ Dro, Italy

We are excitedly looking forward to return to Centrale Fies, independent centre for the production of contemporary performing arts.

2023-2024 COOP study group in partnership with Neringa Forest Architecture (Nida)~ led by Egija Inzule, Jurga Daubaraitė, Jonas Žukauskas:

FOREST IS LONG-TERM

2023-2024 COOP study group in partnership with If I Can't Dance I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution (Amsterdam) ~ led by Frédérique Bergholtz & Snejanka Mihaylova:

The Word and the Wound

Ghalya Saadawi's 2023-2024 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory:

Counter, Revolution, Film

23 April, 2024 ~ please join us at Dar Souiri in Essouira for ROAMING ASSEMBLY#31~ The Seven Colours of the Universe ~ curated by Laila Hida. A collab between DAI, IICD and LE18.

Roaming Assembly is our guest curated public program; exploring themes and topics of relevance to the thinking of art in the world today. 

Amit S.Rai's 2023-2024 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory:

For a Revolutionary Becoming of Attention: Perception, Movement, Technicity Within and Against Racial Capital

Grant Watson's 2023-2024 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory:

Textile Politics: Flags, Nets, Maquettes

2023-2024 COOP study group in partnership with De Appel Amsterdam ~ led by Noor Abuarafeh & Marina Christodoulidou:

Assembling Land: Rehearsals towards Place-making

2023-2024 COOP study group in partnership with Bulegoa z/b (Bilbao) ~ led by Marwa Arsanios, Leon Filter, Leire Vergara:

Curating Positions: Stream of consciousness: between collective filmmaking and anarchist thought