2019-2020 Planetary Campus: KITCHEN
As an infrastructure Planetary Campus is the container for several activities initiated by the DAI, one of them is the
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Introduction
“Orality…is inseparable from the body in movement.” ~ Édouard Glissant
Each DAI-week, one, sometimes two full day(s) (out of seven) is /are dedicated to acts, lectures or lecture-performances (recognized here as a longstanding unique discipline, a hybrid of research, lecture, visual art and performative narrative techniques) performances, screenings or presentations, directed and steered by 11 to 12 individual students (each month a different constellation of names). Each Kitchen Act of 20 minutes is authored by one student but may involve invited "others" as collaborators, assistants or audience-participants (please scroll for Basic Curatorial Guidelines).
The ‘Kitchen’ as an educational tool was coined in 2003 by DAI and molded and sculpted ever since (meanwhile the format has proliferated to many other educational institutions and programs).
The Kitchen-format offers students the possibility to present/ activate their work and research updates, proposals, experiments and other relevant or urgent musings, in a context that is independent from the other constituents of the curriculum. For DAI, as a roaming academy without studio spaces, this is the platform where "practice" in its broadest sense can be shared among the entire student body as well as with ‘outside’.
Embedded in a rigorous curriculum consisting of curated, collective study groups and seminars, the Kitchen offers each and every student a sheltered ‘free space’: for the duration of twenty uninterrupted minutes where they are invited to ‘speak’ to an audience consisting of all their fellow students, DAI’s director and famously, two or more, monthly changing guest respondents (invited makers and thinkers) as well as the occasional interested auditor (you are most welcome to join a session; please contact Rik Fernhout).
The Question
“.................... “responsibility” is not about right response, but rather a matter of inviting, welcoming, and enabling the response of the Other. That is, what is at issue is response-ability: the ability to respond. The range of possible responses that are invited, the kinds of responses that are disinvited or ruled out as fitting re-sponses, are constrained and conditioned by the questions asked, where questions are not simply innocent queries, but particular practices of engagement.” (Free after Karen Barad, 2012).
To guarantee that each student can have the full 20 minutes for their act + 20 minutes for the responses to their act, the Kitchen comes with a quite strict protocol. Beginning their presentation with a carefully crafted key question, each student presents work/research by means of performance, talk, performance-lecture, screening, reading, recital, choreography, play, concert, demonstration, action, presentation of relevant aspects of praxis or work in progress or process, reference sets or, a combination of (some of) these formats. Other than the limits of the given time and space frame and some basic curatorial rules there are actually no restrictions to the content and the format of the presentation.
Following each presentation, in a conversational mode, the two invited respondents will try to engage with the presentation by means of an improvised, non-judgemental, raw, sketchy, tentative, spoken reflection, (roughly) guided by ‘the question’ as well as by the respondents' own concerns, interests and knowledges.
The Basic Curatorial Guidelines
- Each presenter is, in principle, the curator-in-chief of their own Kitchen Act. This includes taking care of the well-being of the respondents and the audience during and also right after the presentation so that the feed back session can take place in a relatively comfortable setting. Chairs should always be made available to the respondents. The presenter has to take this in account while preparing the space.
- If a Kitchen Act requests the active involvement and/or assistance of one or more fellow students or others present in the space, this should in all cases happen with explicit permission, requested at least one day prior to the event. The presenter should offer the collaborator(s) or assistant(s) a detailed plan for the 20 minutes and be very clear about the role that will be assigned to them.
- The safety of everybody in the room including the presenter, comes before anything else. It is in no way allowed to undertake any actions that can lead to causing (bodily nor mental) harm.
- Care should therefore also be invested in regard to violent or offensive content in speech, sound and/or visuals. If in doubt: seek advice from your fellow students while preparing your Kitchen.
- It is ok to request the physical engagement of the audience as a group, in a perfomance or other form of presentation, but only under the condition that those who prefer to not participate in a collective exercise or choreography or otherwise, should feel comfortable to step aside, without having to leave the space.
The Feed Back & the Finale
Apart from the, on the spot, improvised responses to The Kitchen presentations & The Question by the invited, monthly changing guests, each student is furthermore offered one intensive and entirely personal advisory session (face to face) with either Hypatia Vourloumis or Quinsy Gario ( the sessions will start in Epen in January).
Find Hypatia's and Quinsy's schedule for individual meetings here.
In addition to that Clara Saito (DAI, 2019) will offer few group coaching sessions to the Planetary Campus, welcoming anybody who would like to explore how to be (more) comfortable with their body while presenting/performing.
The advises by Hypatia, Quinsy and Clara will be projected towards the final presentations in Arnhem in June (for second students this concerns their so-called AEROPONIC Acts in the presence of all the DAI’s theory-tutors as well as one or two guests present in Arnhem in the context of sonsbeek20-24. First year students will be working towards their end of year Kitchen presentations, also in the presence of (other) guests related to the sonsbeek20-24 context).
Each DAI-week, during the days after their Kitchen presentation, each of the students who have been performing/presenting in that week will have an individual meeting of an hour with Gabriëlle Schleijpen, DAI’s director, initiator of the format, and witness to hundreds of presentations since the Kitchen's inception.
She is also the one who, upon graduation gives out the credits for the relevance, care, inventivity and acumen with which a student has managed to make use of this two year long trajectory that offers a platform to the multitude of distinctive voices within our student body. Departing from what has been expressed by means of someone's Kitchen Act, this specific conversation with the program's director can serve as a focussed moment for sharing any relevant personal questions, concerns, ideas and proposals in regard to art, research, life & DAI (in any desired order).
Important note for students: f2f meetings with Gabriëlle will overlap with the COOP studygroups.
Find Gabriëlle's schedule for individual meetings here.
Last but not least: ‘Feed-Back’ is a student led format to prepare or to de-brief the Kitchen Acts. The sessions are held in small groups moderated by a student. Read more here.
The Camera
During the year the regular Kitchens can be documented by the students themselves (DAI provides a camera) as a tool for reflection and learning whereby it is important to note that it is not allowed to make the responses by our guests public without their permission.
That said, the final first yer Kitchen presentations as well as the public event at the end of the two year study trajectory at the DAI, coined AEROPONIC ACTS are filmed and the resulting video registration plus a written report by a guest writer form an integral part of the Kitchen-format. See also our Alumni Embassy. The AEROPONIC ACTS will take place in front of an audience ( Covid-19 permitting) and in case be live streamed.
2019-2020 Schedule
(scroll for the first session of this academic year)
2020 Final Kitchen for First Year Students
September 28 till October 1st, Radio Kootwijk
Monday September 28
14:00 – 14:20 Introduction &
Welcome by Gabriëlle Schleijpen
14:20 – 15:00 Raffia Li
with graduate respondent Hannah O’Flynn and COOP tutors Marwa Arsanios and Rory Pilgrim
15:00 – 15:40 Clara Winter
with graduate respondent Nine Postma and COOP tutors Clementine Edwards and Leire Vergara
15:40 – 16:20 Mia van den Bos
with graduate respondent Vita Buivid, and COOP tutors Marwa Arsanios and Francesc Ruiz
16:20 – 16:30 short break
16:30 – 17:10 Miguel Ferraez
with graduate respondent Anakin Xersonsky, and COOP tutors Clementine Edwards and Rory Pilgrim
17:10 – 17:50 Csilla Klenyanszki
with graduate respondent Risa Horn, and COOP tutors Leire Vergara and Snejanka Mihaylova
17:50 – 18:30 Mayar Alexan
with graduate respondent Flávia Palladino, and COOP tutors Snejanka Mihaylova and Francesc Ruiz
Wednesday 30 September
14:00 – 14:10 Welcome
14:10 – 14:50 Georgia Stellin & Erato Tzavara
with graduate respondent Raphael Daibert and COOP tutors Rory Pilgrim and Snejanka Mihaylova
14:50 – 15:30 Azul De Monte
with graduate respondent Saskia Burggraaf and COOP tutors Akinbode Akinbiyi and Francesc Ruiz
15:30 – 16:10 Flip Driest
with graduate respondent Francisco Mojica and COOP tutors Leire Vergara and Francesc Ruiz
16:10 – 16:30 short break
16:30 – 17:10 Raul Silva
with graduate respondent Giorgos Gripeos and COOP tutors Marwa Arsanios and Snejanka Mihaylova
17:10 – 17:50 Zane Zajančkauska
with graduate respondent Anastasia McCammon and COOP tutors Snejanka Mihaylova and Clementine Edwards
17:50 – 18:30 Litchi Friedrich
with graduate respondent Wilf Speller and COOP tutors Marwa Arsanios and Clementine Edwards
18:30 - 19:10 Ilgin Akseloglu
with graduate respondent Raphael Daibert (TBC) and Snejanka Mihaylova and Marwa Arsanios
19:10 - 20:10 Communal Dinner
20:10 – 20:50 Kari Rosenfeld
with graduate respondent Anastasia McCammon and Clementine Edwards and Rory Pilgrim
Thursday 1 October
09:50 – 10:30 Erato Tzavara & Georgia Stellin
with graduate respondent Dayna Casey and Leon Filter and Francesc Ruiz
10:30 - 11:10 Rosa Ronsdorf & Alexandra Duvekot
with graduate respondent Lea Rüegg and Rory Pilgrim and Francesc Ruiz
11:10 – 11:50 Anna Piroska Tóth
with graduate respondent Franceska Hawker and Leire Vergara and Snejanka Mihaylova
( COOP presentation SAVVY)
12:50 – 13:30 Hubert Gromny
with graduate respondent Emma De Filippo and Leon Filter and Clementine Edwards
13:30 - 14:10 lunch
14:10 – 14:50
Gabriela dos Santos
with graduate respondent Julian Fricker and Rory Pilgrim and Leire Vergara
14:50 – 15:30 Niccolò Masini
with graduate respondent Vita Buivid and Rory Pilgrim and Clementine Edwards
15:30 – 16:10
Lou Lou Sainsbury & Marie Tučková́ (remote)
with graduate respondent Simon(e) van Saarloos and Snejanka Mihaylova and Leire Vergara
16:10 – 16:50
Alexandra Duvekot & Rosa Ronsdorf
with graduate respondent Zachary Schoenhut and Snejanka Mihaylova and Clementine Edwards
2020 May 25 till July 1st, online
Wednesday July 1
11:00 Presenter: Gabriela dos Santos
Respondents: Kostas Tzimoulis (DAI, 2011) and Quim Pujol
Tuesday June 30
15:00 Presenter: line kramer
Respondents: Joy Mariama Smith (DAI, ) and Stefanie Seibold
Sunday June 28
11:00 Presenter: Francisco Mojica
Respondents: Alejandro Cerón (DAI, 2018) and Sandra Schaefer
15:00 Presenter: Hubert Gromny
Respondents: Maria Iñigo Clavo and Luca Carboni (DAI, 2018)
Saturday June 27
11:00 Presenter: Erato Tzavara
Respondents: Vinita Gatne (DAI, 2019) and Nick Aikens
Friday June 26
11:00 CET Presenter: Hasan Özgür Top
Respondents: Anna Dasović (DAI, 2014) and Didem Pekun
15:00 CET Presenter: Marie Tučková
Respondents: Clementine Edwards (DAI, 2018) and Veronica Valentini
11:00 Presenter: Dorothy Hunter
Respondents: Despina Sevasti (DAI, 2017) and Manuela Moscoso
15:00 Presenter: Georgia Stellin
Respondents: Valentina Miorandi (DAI, 2016) and Stine Hebert
11:00 Presenter: Sepideh Behruzian (DAI, 2020)
Respondents: Hu Wei (DAI, 2016) and Natasha Ginwala
15:00 Presenter: Assem Hendawi (DAI, 2020)
Respondents: Aarti Sunder (DAI, 2015) and You Mi
Sunday June 7
17:00 CET ~ presenter: Zachary Schoenhut
Respondents: Martha Jager (DAI, 2016), Gigi Argyropoulou
20:00 CET ~ presenter: Lea Rüegg
Respondents: Tirza Kater (DAI, 2018), Christian Nyampeta.
Sunday May 31
11:00 CET ~ presenter: Mandus Ridefelt
Respondents: Sonia Kazovsky(DAI, 2017), Patricia Reed
15:00 CET ~ presenter: Iva Kovač
Respondents: Dina Mohamed (DAI, 2019), Jakob Jakobsen.
Monday May 25
17:00 CET ~ presenter: Sara Benaglia.
Respondents:
Lauren Alexander(DAI,2011), Beya Othmani, Jonas Staal.
2020 DAI week 5, Tunis
Monday March 8
Location: Lezart - Rue Hbib Bourguiba (train station Dermech) next to Mad’Art Cinema
Respondents: Amal Khalaf, Thokozani Mhlambi, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
Host: Gabriëlle Schleijpen
Presenters:
10:15 Welcome
10:25 Harun Morrison
10:30 Raphael Daibert
11.10 Mathew Wang
11.50 Francisco Mojica
12:30 Simon(e) van Saarloos
13:10 LUNCH BREAK at Mad'Art Cafe
14:10 Alexandra Duvekot
14:50 Rosa Ronsdorf
15:30 Raul Sebastian Silva
16:10 Giorgos Gripeos
16:50 Anna Piroska Tóth
17:30 TEA BREAK
17:45 Zane Zajančkauska
18:25 Jiatu Gu
19:05 Anastasia McCammon
19:45 Wrap Up
20:00 Dinner at Mad'Art Cafe
2020 Dai week 4, Tunis
Saturday March 7
Location: Mad’Art- Rue Hbib Bourguiba (train station Dermech)
Mad’Art is a cinema, theatre and dance space founded by theatre-maker, choreographer and dancer, the late Raja Ben Ammar. They have been hosting
11:00 -12:00
Introductory presentationby Aziza Harmel:
Back and forth. Forth and never back. Never forth and never back
12:00 - 19:30
Respondents: Aziza Harmel, Beya Othmani
Host: Gabriëlle Schleijpen
Presenters:
12:00 Julian Fricker
12:40 Mia van den Bos
13:20 Nine Postma
14:00 LUNCH BREAK
15:00 Konstantin Mitrokhov
15:40 Wilf Speller
16:20 Flip Driest
17:00 Ian Nolan
17:40 TEA BREAK
18:00 Azul De Monte
18:40 Lou Lou Sainsbury
19: 20 Wrap Up
19:30 Dinner
2020 DAI week 3, Epen
Location: Het Patronaat in Epen
Host: Gabriëlle Schleijpen
9.00 Welcome & coffee
9:15 Introduction guest respondents:
Alaa Abu Asad, Giulia Damiani, Werker Collective
9:30 Risa Horn
10:10 Emma de Filippo
10:50 Miguel Ferraez
11:30 Zoi Moutsokou
12:10 Csilla Klenyanszki
13.00 - 14:00
Communal lunch cooked by Mari Pitkänen
Location: Patronaat, Epen
14:00 Jose Iglesias Ga-Arenal
14:40 Sophie de Serière
15:20 Anakin Xersonsky
16:00 Kari Rosenfelt
16:40 short break
16:50 Niccolò Masini
17.30 Hanna O’Flynn
18.20 Rong Raffia Li
19.00 End
19.30 Communal dinner cooked by Mari Pitkänen
Location: Bovenste Bos in Epen
2019 DAI week 2, Nieuwvliet
Host: Gabriëlle Schleijpen
Location: Grote Kerk, Groede
Respondents: Barbara Browning, Matteo Lucchetti and Eric Peter
09:45 introduction
10:00 Gayatri Kodikal (BB,EP)
10:40 Clara Winter (BB,EP)
11:20 coffee break
11:40 Marc Norbert Hörler (BB,ML)
12:20 Saskia Burggraaf (BB,ML)
13:00 - 14:00
Communal lunch cooked by Pick Up with the assistance of Pitchaya Ngamcharoen
Location: Grote Kerk, Groede
14:00 Francesca Hawker (BB,ML)
14:40 Dayna Casey (BB,ML)
15:20 Litchi Friedrich (ML,EP)
16:00 Tea break
16:30 Ilgin Deniz Akesloglu (ML,EP)
17:10 Mayar Alexan (BB,ML)
18:00 – 19:00
Communal Dinner Cooked by Pick Up with the assistance of Pitchaya Ngamcharoen
Location: TBC
19:00 Maxime Gourdon (BB, ML)
19:40 Flavia Palladino (BB, ML)
2019 DAI week 1, Arnhem
Host: Gabriëlle schleijpen
Respondents: Aude Christel Mgba and Vincent van Velsen
- Vita Buivit
- Harun Morrison
- GUEST APPEARANCE by Clara Saito