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The Supervisory Board of ArtEZ (DAI's "parent" University of the Arts), after quite some years of repeating crises at the overriding level of governance, has appointed Frank Kresin and Jeroen Visser as new Executive Board. Both will take office on 16 March, 2026. DAI welcomes their positioning with cautious optimism: Frank Kresin: “Especially when everything is shifting, we need the arts to question, disrupt and imagine, so that new perspectives can emerge.” ~~~~ Jeroen Visser: “ I want to contribute... by ensuring that everyone here can work and study well-supported and with autonomy.” We at DAI look forward to spirited debates about the politics of ArtEZ and will definitely remind Frank and Jeroen of their initial statements, whenever relevant !

What if there was a Jewish political movement that fought for liberation without seeking a state? What if diaspora wasn’t exile, but home? Artist, writer and activist Molly Crabapple offers a course which explores the Bund (short for the General Jewish Labour Bund). Founded in 1897 in Vilna (in what was then the Russian Empire, and which is now Vilnius in Lithuania), the Bund reached its height in Poland between the two world wars. It was a sometimes-clandestine political party built on humane, socialist and secular principles, and it was defiantly, proudly Jewish. Bundists fought against the Tsarist regime, organised resistance to violent pogroms, championed the Yiddish language as a vehicle of Jewish culture and dignity, and built vast networks of schools, theatres, newspapers, sports clubs and mutual aid societies. They believed that Jews could and should fight for liberation exactly where they were, not by establishing a distant homeland, but by struggling for justice alongside their neighbours. The Bund raised generations of young people on radical ideals of working-class solidarity and what they called do’ikayt – “hereness”. This principle held that Jews had the right to live in freedom and dignity wherever they stood, and that they should never seek to solve their problems through the dispossession of others. Many of these Bundist youth would go on to help lead the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the Nazis in 1943. Though the Bund was largely destroyed by Nazi Germany and suppressed by the Soviet Union, its absence from contemporary consciousness has another cause: the movement’s principled opposition to Zionism. Because Bundists rejected the idea of a Jewish state in Palestine, their story has been largely written out of mainstream Jewish history. This very interesting course presented by Equator, magazine of politics, culture and art, begins on the 7th of March 2026.

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VASKOS = Vassilis Noulas & Kostas Tzimoulis (DAI, 2011) are very pleased to invite you to Sept fois deux, a group exhibition that brings together a compelling constellation of artistic DUOS. Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain, JN MELLOR CLUB = Karine Arabian and Franck Blais, Mazaccio & Drowilal, Notsani & Laurent Mareschal, Edouard Taufenbach et Bastien Pourtout. The exhibition is curated by Dani Issler, in collaboration with Boris Atrux-Tallau & Kerenidis Pepe. Until 7th March. If you are in Paris, please pass by!

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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)

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

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.

What is Mapping Totality?

Ghalya Saadawi's 2025-2026 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory

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

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

The Salt of the Earth

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

TENDING FORESTS IN OUR MINDS

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

Shapeshifting

Sladja Blazan'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

Attending to Erasure

Amit S.Rai's 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

Canon & Cannon

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