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

Nova Melancholia presents "OOPS!" an avant-garde cabaret of political satire based on texts by the Soviet author Daniil Kharms featuring concept, coordination, set design and costume by our stupendous alumni Kostas Tzimoulis (DAI 2009-2011) as always in collaboration with his partner Vassilis Noulas ~ " We are cartoons in an animated series: we have no feelings, no bodies, no thoughts. We trip each other up, we fight, we laugh mechanically. We kill one another and come back to life, again and again."

| tag: Athens

Cheers to the fabulous Tomek Pawłowski-Jarmołajew (who was our chef in Nida at several occasions and our Insta-reporter at Centrale Fies in 2024) on their new position as Curator of the Artist-in-Residency Programme at the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art (BGSW) in Słupsk and Ustka, Poland. BGSW is spread between two cities – Słupsk and Ustka – and works across 3 venues. Alongside exhibitions and public programmes, BGSW runs one of the most vibrant artist-in-residency programmes in Poland. Its location on the Baltic coast gives it a unique potential to be an institution in movement – open, self-reflective, and deeply connected to its surroundings. In this new role, Tomek will be drawing on their curatorial background and hospitality skills to welcome artists and researchers to the Polish shore of the Baltic Sea. They are very much looking forward to offering kind space where artistic work, research, connections, and moments of retreat can unfold. Find contact details here.

| tags: Słupsk, Ustka

For her exhibition at Kunsthalle Bern, Daniela Ortiz ( beloved guest of DAI in 2025 and 2019) is addressing director iLiana Fokianaki’s overall enquiry into the Plantacionocene as a locus from which we can further understand the intersections of social and environmental justice. With A Drop of Milk, Ortiz presents a new body of work that discusses the violence inflicted on the global majority's territories, people, fauna, and flora, through the rationing, control or over-production of certain foods, by the agricultural industries. What is the value of a drop of milk? What does hunger mean? A Drop of Milk examines how access to nourishment is shaped by imperial legacies, corporate monopolies, and economic warfare. It situates hunger within a planetary system in which food is no longer primarily cultivated and shared, but instead monitored, withheld, rationed, commodified, artificially enhanced but also used as a means of control, and at times, as a form of punishment. A Drop of Milk proposes a critical cartography of the politics of hunger under the current neo-liberal and neo-colonial order. The exhibition focuses on economic sanctions, trade blockades, food monopolies and deliberate strategies of deprivation imposed by powers of the so-called Global North, foregrounding, in particular, the role of Switzerland and its corporations in undermining access to food in the global majority. Hunger here is not addressed as the result of accidental or “natural” scarcity, but as a calculated device of domination, exercised either through sanctions or monopolized control.

| tag: Bern

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BULLETIN ~ DAI Confluence#5 in Oosterhout (The Netherlands). April1 3 till 23, 2026.

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

ACADEMIC CALENDAR

our roaming trajectory 2025 -2026 (updated 11 April, 2026)

Palestine Teach-Out#13.2: Palestine, Lebanon, Iran and the Question of Imperalism.

14 March 2026 ~ DAI in Matera, Italy ~ with Adam HajYahia, Samaneh Moafi and Ghalya Saadawi.

The Salt of the Earth

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

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

Shapeshifting

Sladja Blazan's 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

TENDING FORESTS IN OUR MINDS

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

Attending to Erasure

Amit S.Rai'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

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

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.

Publishing Practices - In the Wake of Erasure

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

2026, April 22 & 23 ~ The Kitchen: sixteen conversations-in-a-form. Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes & Ada Maricia Patterson will join us in Oosterhout, the Netherlands to improvise and respond to Kitchen Acts by

Ilja Schamle, Lío Spinnewijn, Zhuang Leng, Fagner Lima, Sophie Dandanell, Shiva Yourdkhani, Jip van der Hek, Gianfranco Colla, Despina Sanida Crezia, Amalie Sveske Ourø, Muyang Teng, Moss Lutz, Yindi Chen, Keit Bonnici, Dory Samuel, Erik Peters.

SCRITTI POLITTI

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

Canon & Cannon

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

Native, Primitive, Insurgent – Arrows of God

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