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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.

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PRECIOUS!!: Derek Jarman ~ Baha Görkem Yalım ~ Leon Filter: ' Meeting in the blue fold' unfolds as a space of resonance and continuation, where gestures of care interweave across multiple practices and timelines. It is a shared duration, a horizon where tenderness and persistence coexist, where care becomes a form of futurity, and queerness, not as identity but as potential, gestures toward what is not yet here. (This conceptual framing is indebted to the foundational work of José Esteban Muñoz, particularly Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, New York University Press, 2009) Within this field, works, voices, and readings emerge in dialogue — sometimes simultaneously, sometimes in response to one another — each attentive to the others, each a continuation of the attentions opened by Jarman’s Blue. This collaboration takes shape through listening, reading, and the slow folding of questions that continue to open rather than close.

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While preparing for DAI Confluence#3 in Nida (January 2026) you might be interested in reading a text by Edvardas Šumila. "It May Be the Last Time ~ Lithuanian art and culture resisting a takeover at the height of hybrid warfare" was recently published by E-flux and Public Seminar.

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HOME COOP HowToDoThingsWithTheory The Kitchen / AEROPONIC ACTS WEAVER

BULLETIN ~ DAI Confluence#6 in Dro (Italy). June 13 till 22, 2026.

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

ACADEMIC CALENDAR

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

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

Canon & Cannon

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

Shapeshifting

Sladja Blazan'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

Cemeterial Ecologies, Grieving and Zombie Time

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

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

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

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

Attending to Erasure

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

2026, June 14, 15, 16 ~ Final First Year Kitchen ACTS: 23 conversations-in-a-form. Phanuel Antwi & Rana Hamadeh will join us at Centrale Fies, Dro, Italy to improvise and respond on the spot to so-called Kitchen ACTS by

all students who are concluding their first year of study with DAI. Quinsy Gario is present as auditor and will later engage in one on one feed back sessions with each presenter.

Join us on 17, 18,19, 20 and 21 June 2026 at Centrale Fies, independent centre for the production of contemporary performing arts, located in the beautiful Valle dei Laghi in Trentino, Italy for the AEROPONIC ACTS 2026: DAWN SEEDS

41 conversations-in-a-form. Each act of 20 minutes offers a question as a practice of engagement. AEROPONIC ACTS 2026 were convened by Gabriëlle Schleijpen and will be anchored by curator Elisa Giuliano. Esteemed respondents Adam HajYahia, Antonia Majaca and Zairong Xiang are invited to vibe with the questions and offer their improvised, spoken reflections to help us think through what is embodied and proposed by our 41 graduating students.