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Dear, spellbinding alum Meii Soh (DAI 2022-2024) has been working on an OPEN CALL, and invites you to APPLY now! ~ hopscotch & ponto are inviting local and international artists of all backgrounds to submit a text of your own for their reading and fundraising session 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝒹𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝒻𝓉. From the open call, 30 texts will be selected and printed as part of a fundraising edition — all funds donated to Gaza. Deadline: 23rd November 2025
Our mellifluous alum Rosa Ronsdorf (DAI 2019-2021) is one half of the Amsterdam band Spill Gold, together with Nina de Jonge. Past releases include an EP on Beacon Sound Records (US, 2017), and the albums Highway Hypnosis on Knekelhuis Records (NL, 2020) and ZaZa on Teenage Menopause Records (FR, 2024). The band has toured Canada, the US, Europe, and the UK, performing at Grauzone, Roadburn, Blue Dot Festival, Le Guess Who, and Eurosonic, among others. swellS is the name of a new collaboration between Spill Gold and Studio Noralie (Noortje van den Eijnde). At Nest in The Hague, they will present a new, large scale textile-installation that moves through machine-driven knockers. The installation reminds of a rippling effect in water, which the artists see as a symbol for ecological entanglement and the interconnectedness of all living beings. The installation will exclusively be on view during AM.PM.AM. (a series of interdisciplinary weekend programmes in which art, performance and music merge) and will be activated in various ways: through a continuous soundscape and a special live performance by Spill Gold on Friday night 28 November.
Kudos to the one and only marce norbert hörler (DAI, 2018-2020 ), the winner of the Manor Art Prize St.Gallen 2025. The Kunstmuseum St.Gallen presents hörler's multi-layered exhibition that combines performance, poetry, scent and architecture and challenges our perception of space and identity. What criteria influence our perception in a space? What traces do bodies leave behind in the spaces they traverse? How does our orientation change when a space is not linear? For marce norbert hörler these are central questions that are addressed in the exhibition slant. DAI is pleased to find the names of several other dear DAI alumni in the credits ! Performances and an artist talk are scheduled between now and the end of May 2026. Click for more details.
BULLETIN ~ DAI Confluence#1 at PAF (St.Erme) September 25 till October 3, 2025.
Bulletins contain the complete, day-to-day program of a specific DAI Confluence.
ACADEMIC CALENDAR
our roaming trajectory 2025 -2026 (updated October 26, 2025)
Canon & Cannon
Hypatia Vourloumis' 2025-2026 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory
What is Mapping Totality?
Ghalya Saadawi's 2025-2026 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory
WHY GERMANY 9 July
Watch the video registration of an online conversation between theorist and writer Ana Teixeira Pinto & renowned genocide scholar Dirk Moses. Convened and hosted on the 9 of July, 2024 by the DAI as part of the international WHY GERMANY lectures series, addressing the crackdown on free speech in Germany and beyond.
Body as Memory
2025-2026 COOP study group in partnership with If I Can't Dance I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution ~ Tutor team: Frédérique Bergholtz & Angelo Custodio
Cemeterial Ecologies, Grieving and Zombie Time
2025-2026 COOP study group in partnership with Hosting Lands ~ Tutor team: Aziza Harmel & Harun Morrison
FACTORY
encompasses student led activities, unique as well as recurring, including assemblies, choirs, practical workshops, open mics, jam sessions, cat-walks and more, organized, curated and guided by and for members of the DAI's student body.
Publishing Practices - In the Wake of Erasure
2025-2026 COOP study group in partnership with ARCHIVE ENSEMBLE ~ Tutor team: Chiara Figone & Iman Salem
Attending to Erasure
Amit S.Rai's 2025-2026 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory
Shapeshifting
Sladja Blazan's 2025-2026 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory
2025, November 20 & 21 ~ The Kitchen: sixteen conversations-in-a-form ~
Tobi Haslett and Laila Hida will join us at PAF (St. Erme, France) to improvise and respond to so-called Kitchens by students in their first or second year of their journey with DAI.
Native, Primitive, Insurgent – Arrows of God
2025-2026 COOP study group in partnership with SAVVY Contemporary ~ Tutor team: Mokia Dinnyuy Manjoh & Daniellis Hernandez Calderon
Unsettling Representation: On the Limits of Critique, Towards a Deciphering Practice
Sarah Lewis-Cappillari's 2025-2026 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory
TENDING FORESTS IN OUR MINDS
2025-2026 COOP study group in partnership with Neringa Forest Architecture ~ Tutor team: Egija Inzule & Jurga Daubaraitė & Jonas Žukauskas
The Salt of the Earth
2025-2026 COOP study group in partnership with De Appel Amsterdam ~ Tutor team: Noor Abuarafeh & Marina Christodoulidou
SCRITTI POLITTI
Grant Watson's 2025-2026 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory
