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

HOME COOP HowToDoThingsWithTheory The Kitchen / AEROPONIC ACTS WEAVER

BULLETIN ~ DAI Confluence#3 at Nida Art Colony in Lithuania. January 14 till 24, 2026.

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

ACADEMIC CALENDAR

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

The Salt of the Earth

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

Publishing Practices - In the Wake of Erasure

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

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

2026, January 15 & 16 ~ The Kitchen: sixteen conversations-in-a-form ~

Noah Brehmer and Jeanne van Heeswijk will join us at Nida Art Colony (on the Curonian Spit in Lithuania) to improvise and respond to Kitchen-acts by Agnese Spolverini, Henriks Eliass Zegners, Stellar Meris, Rana Kelleci, Richard Liu, Giuliana Beya Dridi, Patrick Freriksen, Oliver Turvey, Jamie Donald, Dana Andrei, Ayris Taban, Emma Caspers, Veronika Marxer, Agnese Krivade, Rikke Lundgaard Ebling, Dimitris Chimonas

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

Shapeshifting

Sladja Blazan's 2025-2026 seminar for How To Do Things With Theory

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

Cemeterial Ecologies, Grieving and Zombie Time

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

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

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

Palestine Teach-Out#12: The Unavowable Resistance: temporalities of revolt, histories of genocidal erasure

17 January 2026 ~ DAI in Nida, Lithuania ~ with Kamal Ahamada and Noah Brehmer, both based in Vilne.

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.