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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.

Astonishing alumni Cristina Ramos González (DAI 2022 - 2024) has been cooking up a storm since they were a student with us! Several projects they have developed recently are inspired by the teachings they received during their studies at DAI. They were resident editor at Barcelona-based magazine A-Desk, about the use of the voice in artistic practices. Snejanka Mihaylova (COOP tutor with If I Can't Dance from 2020 till 2025 ) also contributed!

"Sunsets are nature's great representations, repeated daily, each time different. We all carry at least one memory of a sunset. Its shifting light and dissolving colors evoke both wonder and unease, echoing finality even as they reassure us with their return. Yet the beauty of these colors is tinged with a sense of alarm. If we imagine the end of the world, would that final sunset be our last glimpse of the sun’s brilliance? Perhaps every sunset, in all its grace and romance, is already a quiet rehearsal for endings, an image of The End." ~ Starting from there, curator Rawad Baaklini brought together a remarkable group of artists, among them DAI's Noor Abuarafeh and Alaa Abu Asad (the latter with a painfully beautiful new work). The exhibition: Sun, Don't Rush to be Red. Son, Don't Rush to be Read November 15, 2025 - February 15, 2026 at TENT. We warmly recommend you to read DAI alum Pelumi Adejumo's interview with the curator (link to be found here).

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BULLETIN#7 - the last Confluence of this academic year in Matera, Italy ~ July 10 till 19, 2026

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

ACADEMIC CALENDAR

our roaming trajectories 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 (updated 4 July, 2026)

Canon & Cannon

Hypatia Vourloumis' 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

Shapeshifting

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

15, 16, 17 July ~ Join us in Matera for COOP SUMMIT 2026: an assemblage of happenings.

Together with our COOP partners; De Appel Amsterdam, Archive Ensemble, Hosting Lands, If I Can't Dance I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Neringa Forest Architecture, SAVVY Contemporary + TAM, the Tower Art Museum in Matera, we will share experimental outcomes of our collaborative research.

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

Native, Primitive, Insurgent – Arrows of God

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

TENDING FORESTS IN OUR MINDS

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

What is Mapping Totality?

Ghalya Saadawi'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

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

Attending to Erasure

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

The Salt of the Earth

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