SHOUT-OUT for Amal Alhaag, curator (and COOP tutor at DAI). A few days ago it was published that the prestigious Dutch Akademie van Kunsten Penning 2022 will be awarded to Amal. The awardee writes: " As much as I am honored, I remain a killjoy and want to use this opportunity as a moment to centralize collaborations and the collaborative spirits that has shaped not only my own practice but the practices and realities of many of us in this messy cultural landscape. In times of cultural diversity hype and immense precarity, some of us rather not reinvent the wheel. It is this process of shifting gears, remembering each other-other and building alongside those who came before you (and many who are still here), that makes it urgent to rethink the little representation offers minoritized people. In other words. It takes multiple villages to raise killjoys, which is why we’re hosting Black Like Us, Mourn Like Us, Imagine Us with our new traveling project space SNAP on the evening of the awarding".