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

Alaa Abu Asad, our friend, alumn and returning portrait photographer for the Alumni Embassy, recommends us to read "How Gaza Broke the Art World" by David Velasco, writer and editor in chief of Art Forum from 2017 till 2023. David Velasco was fired by Penske Media Corporation after the publication reprinted an open letter, which received 8,000 signatories, calling for a 2023 ceasefire in Gaza. In the underlying article Velasco reckons with two years of division, fear and silence.

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ALL WELCOME TO THE OPENING ON JANUARY 17 from from 15:00 - 18:00 ~ The exhibition YOu are varIAtionS brings two wonderful curators and cherished DAI alumni Martha Jager (DAI, 2014-2016) and Sara Giannini (COOP tutor 2017 - 2020) together with the two artists Anchan/Anna Daučíková (whose stunning 2016 appearance in our Roaming Assembly#4 ~ FAILURE TO TRANSMIT will not lightly be forgotten) and Christina Della Giustina. YOu are varIAtionS is the result of a transregional collaboration between Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middelburg, and DAI's longstanding COOP partner If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Amsterdam — both organizations engaged with feminist histories, experimental curatorial processes, and performance-based methodologies. Reflecting this constellation, the project unfolds in two moments: an exhibition at Vleeshal (January–March 2026) and a performance-based presentation at If I Can’t Dance and PuntWG (October 2026).

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Our stupendous alumni Ines Marita Schärer (DAI 2016 - 2018) has been very busy this past year! In recent months, they dived deeply into sound studies, for example with the Sound Craft Workshop, or SOUND ARGUMENTS, an innovative laboratory-atelier, organised from the Orpheus Institute in Ghent and the University of Leiden (NL), or FORME, electroacoustic/acousmatic music training at MUSIQUES & RECHERCHES, with composer Annette Vande Gorne. Ines is soon to be publishing a poetry collection, working on it together with Vera Ida Müller and Sophie Thomas from VEXER VERLAG, Berlin. They are also contributing to the upcoming Issue No. 6, DEARS MAGAZINE, SENSING BODIES which will be published in the beginning of 2026. Save the date! Ines will launch Readings at Vario Basel, 22nd Feb 2026 at 4.00pm. They are participating right now at the exhibition A TABLE, Jahresausstellung der Bündner Künstler*innen, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, CH, between 14th Dec - 25th Jan 2026. And there is much more ~ just click.

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BULLETIN ~ DAI Confluence#3 at Nida Art Colony in Lithuania. January 14 till 24, 2026.

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

ACADEMIC CALENDAR

our roaming trajectory 2025 -2026 (updated January 14, 2026)

The Salt of the Earth

2025-2026 COOP study group in partnership with De Appel Amsterdam ~ Tutor team: Noor Abuarafeh & Marina Christodoulidou

Shapeshifting

Sladja Blazan's 2025-2026 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory

FACTORY

encompasses student led activities, unique as well as recurring, including assemblies, choirs, teach-outs, crash courses, practical workshops, open mics, jam sessions, cat-walks and more, organized, curated and guided by and for members of the DAI's student body.

TENDING FORESTS IN OUR MINDS

2025-2026 COOP study group in partnership with Neringa Forest Architecture ~ Tutor team: Egija Inzule & Jurga Daubaraitė & Jonas Žukauskas

Palestine Teach-Out#12: The Unavowable Resistance: temporalities of revolt, histories of genocidal erasure

17 January 2026 ~ DAI in Nida, Lithuania ~ with Kamal Ahamada and Noah Brehmer, both based in Vilne.

Native, Primitive, Insurgent – Arrows of God

2025-2026 COOP study group in partnership with SAVVY Contemporary ~ Tutor team: Mokia Dinnyuy Manjoh & Daniellis Hernandez Calderon

Attending to Erasure

Amit S.Rai's 2025-2026 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory

Publishing Practices - In the Wake of Erasure

2025-2026 COOP study group in partnership with ARCHIVE ENSEMBLE ~ Tutor team: Chiara Figone & Iman Salem

SCRITTI POLITTI

Grant Watson's 2025-2026 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory

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

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

Canon & Cannon

Hypatia Vourloumis' 2025-2026 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory

2026, January 15 & 16 ~ The Kitchen: sixteen conversations-in-a-form ~

Noah Brehmer and Jeanne van Heeswijk will join us at Nida Art Colony (on the Curonian Spit in Lithuania) to improvise and respond to Kitchen-acts by Agnese Spolverini, Henriks Eliass Zegners, Stellar Meris, Rana Kelleci, Richard Liu, Giuliana Beya Dridi, Patrick Freriksen, Oliver Turvey, Jamie Donald, Dana Andrei, Ayris Taban, Emma Caspers, Veronika Marxer, Agnese Krivade, Rikke Lundgaard Ebling, Dimitris Chimonas

What is Mapping Totality?

Ghalya Saadawi's 2025-2026 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory

Cemeterial Ecologies, Grieving and Zombie Time

2025-2026 COOP study group in partnership with Hosting Lands ~ Tutor team: Aziza Harmel & Harun Morrison