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24 September 2026 ~. The book "a minor spread" follows DAI alum (2020) marce norbert hörler’s solo exhibition "slant" and the performance "reading a room as a body" at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen. "slant" transformed the museum’s lower floor into a shifting field of body, language, architecture, and scent. On the pages of the book , the exhibition and performance find another space to move through. a minor spread retraces a possible path, a meeting of the performers, a memory of a song, a residue of a scent. The publication launch kicks off with a screening of the film fitness! commodity! delight! (2026) by Kari Leigh Rosenfeld and marce norbert hörler. The screening is followed by a conversation together with Samuel Bänziger (Jungle Books) and Nadia Veronese (Senior Curator Kunstmuseum St. Gallen).

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We are so absolutely thrilled to share with you that Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca are having their first important solo exhibition in the Netherlands. Bárbara (b.1980, Brasília) who lives and works in Recife, Brazil graduated from the Dutch Art Institute in 2012 and together with Benjamin, she developed an impressive body of work that earned widespread critical acclaim. To DAI's pedagogical vision it is particularly relevant that a core characteristic of Wagner & de Burca’s practice is their explicitly collaborative approach to making art. The communities depicted are not mere subjects but rather co-authors, with an active hand in developing the script, the set backdrop, the music, the choreography and the staging, collectively helping to shape the work. Displayed at the centre of the exhibition at De Pont Museum in Tilburg is the recent video work Future of Yesterday. This new piece focuses on the German hardcore scene, with specific attention for the Straight Edge movement (sXe for short), a group that emerged on the east coast of the United States in the 1980s as a ‘clean’ counter-culture within the post-hardcore punk scene. Wagner & de Burca place this work in a broader dialogue with other underground music scenes. One way they do so is by intentionally juxtaposing Future of Yesterday with an early key work from De Pont Museum’s collection, Estás vendo coisas / You are seeing things (2016), in which the duo explore the brega scene from Recife – a musical culture with local roots that emerged in the Northeast region of Brazil in the 1970s. The must-see exhibition runs till 28 February 2027.

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DABARTIS: Letter #7 ~ Exits. In the ricochet between the desire to leave this world and the structural stasis and immobility that this very same world imposes, the essays in Letter no.7 Exits—by Frédéric Neyrat (translated by Francesco Scollo), Almaz and Despina Sanida Crezia (DAI, 2026), Dionys Mascolo (translated and introduced by Howard Slater), Micah Newberger and Korah Kremer—can be situated. They all address the necessity and desire of leaving this world from within the (im)possibilities of what might be termed the ‘Camatte dilemma’. They share the requisite tension that accompanies it in thought and practice, or rather thought as a practice of imaginative desertion. They do so in very different registers both from Camatte—nowhere is he explicitly cited—and from one another. Yet, all are located in the vanishing point that appears between exit and no exit, the never quite foreclosed overcoming of the limits of the existent. Such a vanishing point of exit/no exit might be characterised as the realisation that this world is predicated upon an inexorable rise in the rate of the unliveable, an unliveable that, somehow, still has to be lived. (click to continue reading)

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BULLETIN#1 - the first Confluence of this academic year @ BAK Basecamp, Utrecht ~ September 29 till October 7, 2026

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

ACADEMIC CALENDAR

our roaming trajectory 2026-2027 (updated 6 October, 2026)

3+4 October: Join us at BAK basecamp in Utrecht for 'If Not Here, Then Where? Making Our Home In Shared Struggle'. Conveners: Ana Teixeira Pinto and Gabriëlle Schleijpen. On the occasion of Gabriëlle’s completion of her tenure as artistic director of the DAI (2002-2026) we come together to insist that belonging is forged through shared production, struggle, and infrastructure.

APRiCot Garden brings together research trajectories by alumni and practitioners from the wider DAI community. This second, special edition, 'If Not Here, Then Where?, presents talks, conversations, lecture-performances, exhibition (till 18 Oct), agitational workshop, book launch 'A Cut Through the Screen: Struggles' Reverberations in Cinema' and an experiment with the dance floor as curatorial space and place of study.

Scritti Politti II

Grant Watson's 2026-2027 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory

Mapping Totality Part ll

Ghalya Saadawi's 2026-2027 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory

Publishing Practices: What Carries Us

2026-2027 COOP study group in partnership with ARCHIVE ENSEMBLE ~ Tutor team: Chiara Figone & Jihan El Tahri

Strange Affinities: Difference Without Separability

Sarah Lewis-Cappillari's 2026-2027 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory

For those who can read the landscape

2026-2027 COOP study group in partnership with De Appel Amsterdam ~ Tutor team: Noor Abuarafeh & Marina Christodoulidou

Learning by Heart

2026-2027 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 & Snejanka Mihaylova

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.

Practices of Darkness: Blackouts, night and the Politics of Sleep

2026-2027 COOP study group in partnership with Hosting Lands ~ Tutor team: Aziza Harmel & Harun Morrison

The ‘Long Revolution’: Science Fiction and the Arts of Dystopia

Amit S.Rai's 2026-2027 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory

Clave, repetición y variación: polyrhythmic exercises through Caribbean Currents

2026-2027 COOP study group in partnership with SAVVY Contemporary ~ Tutor team: Daniellis Hernandez Calderon & Raisa Galofre

Grounds under pressure

2026-2027 COOP study group in partnership with Neringa Forest Architecture ~ Tutor team: Egija Inzule & Jurga Daubaraitė & Jonas Žukauskas

how on earth

Hypatia Vourloumis' 2026-2027 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory

If Not Here, Then Where? In the Friction of Shared Struggle

ONLINE EXHIBITION CATALOGUE introduces more then 20 alumni artists - 3 till 17 October 2026 BAK Basecamp in Utrecht

Epistemic Disobedience

Sladja Blazan's 2026-2027 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory