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BULLETIN 9 ~ DAI Week 9 at the Posttheater in Arnhem. August 22-September 2, 2021.

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ACADEMIC CALENDAR August 2021 - August 2022. Last update: August 28.

Introduction days for incoming students 2021- 2023: October 2 till 9.

2020-2021 study group: Reframing Climate Colonialism: Pleasuring the Radical Imagination.

Tutor team: Ama Josephine Budge, Clementine Edwards, CJC Working Group. COOP partner: Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, Utrecht.

The Life and Afterlife of Fascism

Ana Teixeira Pinto's 2020-2021 seminar for HTDTWT

2020-2021 study group ~ Curating Positions: Bodies and Antibodies in Cinema

Tutors: Marwa Arsanios, Leon Filter, Leire Vergara. COOP partner: Bulegoa z/b, Bilbao

At the Limits of the Writerly: Planetarity and the Persistent Reproduction of an Otherwise

Rachel O’Reilly's 2020-2021 seminar for HTDTWT

The Subaltern and the “Free Negro”: Postcolonial Criticism, Afro Pessimism and the Intersectionality of Solidarity

Amit S.Rai's 2020-2021 seminar for HTDTWT

2020-2021 study group: CHUSMA 2.0: A Coalition of Gossips

Tutor Team: Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga, Francesc Ruiz. COOP partner: State Of Concept, Athens

ROAMING ASSEMBLY is an ongoing series of guest-curated public events ~ mobilizing our bodies, our intelligences ~ by means of a a state-of-the-art speculative and hybrid program.

In 2021 we continue teaming up with the curatorial team of sonsbeek20-24 on the next combined edition of our Roaming Assembly and their Council.

2020-2021 study group: On Tradition – Future Ancestors: let rhythm be your guiding light.

Tutor Team: Snejanka Mihaylova, Rory Pilgrim. COOP partner: If I Can't Dance I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Amsterdam

Witness

Ghalya Saadawi's 20-21 seminar for HTDTWT

Writing Sound/Sound Writing: Resonating Materialities II

Hypatia Vourloumis' 2020-2021 seminar for HTDTWT

Factory 2.0

Platform where students can initiate, publish and lead accredited activities.

Queering Communism

Grant Watson's 2020-2021 seminar for HTDTWT

2020-2021 Study group: ReSituating and ReCalibrating Hostipitality.

Tutor Team: Akinbode Akinbiyi and Kamila Metwaly. COOP partner: SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin

Kitchen

Non-aligned curriculum component that offers a platform to the myriad of distinctive voices within our student body.

WORLD

“Zora and Riva seem at peace with each other’s bodily being, and seem to have given each other what they came for: companionship, reciprocity, care, protection. Bodies make each other a little more possible: but they can’t do everything. My sight can’t give you your sight, my performative blindness may not even be empathy, and my mix of ability and impairment doesn’t impinge much on yours. What we do have together, in the middle of this thing, is a brush with solidarity, and that’s real. Zora and Riva are a team, a brace of utopian realists; they see things jointly, partially. A fantasy from the middle of disrepair doesn’t add up to repair. It adds up to a confidence that proceeds without denying fragility.” Lauren Berlant considers what our bodies, attachments, and solidarities make possible in the midst of structural cruelty. Asia Art Archive's IDEAS JOURNAL invites us to revisit Berlant’s revelatory "Note on the Cover Image: If Body: Riva and Zora in Middle Age" from Cruel Optimism.

August 15, 2021 at 13:30: SONSBEEK SUNDAY SERVICE in the Eusebius Church: join sonsbeek20-24 for an intimate gathering and screening of The Undercurrent, a film by artist and DAI COOP tutor Rory Pilgrim. Together we will watch the movie and engage in a conversation with Rory and sonsbeek’s co-curator Zippora Elders about climate labour, the scores of our communities, and finding shelter on this planet.

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We embrace and feel embraced by, sonsbeek20-24 FORCE, TIMES, DISTANCE – on labour and its sonic ecologies. After our energetic joint assemblies in Tunis (March 2020) and Radio Kootwijk (September 2020) we are now looking forward to the next iteration of our collaboration within the set ups of Weaver, AEROPONIC ACTS 2021 and our Roaming Assembly – public program to be announced. Meanwhile we are moved by the courage, the refinement and the stature of the art works currently on display in parks and venues in and around Arnhem, DAI’s home base. We commend our current student, sound artist João Polido (DAI, 2022) on Composition (a co-creation with Louis Henderson), and incoming students, poet and performer Pelumi Adejumo (DAI, 2023) and textile artist Gleb Maiboroda (DAI, 2023) on their crucial contributions to the film by Wendelien van Oldenborgh and the installations by Werker Collective respectively.

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The first delegation of Zapatistas, Squad 421, disembarked on June 22 in Vigo, Spain in a symbolic “invasion” and “rediscovery” of Europe. In the next few days 177 more Zapatistas will arrive in Paris, France by plane this time and they will spread in smaller groups all around Europe during the next months. An extensive European solidarity network continues to raise funds to make their landmark visit a huge succes. For example, during the Open Days of the Rijksacademy in Amsterdam, Aldo E.Ramos (DAI, 2018) and other residents organised a tombola in support of the Zapatistas. If you missed out on this and other campaigns you can still make a donation. DIEM25 asks you to spare a few euros in solidarity to make our Zapatista brothers and sisters feel at home and accomplish their goals. Find more information here.