If you find yourself at UNFAIR23 this weekend, please be welcome at the booth of Buro Stedelijk to see Manifestation #20: Taking Root Among the Stars ~ the installation and first chapter of a longer project initiated by brilliant DAI former tutor Müge Yilmaz and alum Anna Hoetjes (DAI, 2012). The aim of this project is to grow a community and offer a platform to exchange different speculative and feminist futures, celebrating Octavia Butler’s legacy and imagining counter movements for the times to come.
In collaboration with Buro Stedelijk, Hoetjes and Yilmaz will create an intimate space at UNFAIR23 surrounded by a textile ceiling that re-imagines the firmament of the night sky, bringing together scientific, mythical and feminist stories of cyclic movement and space travel. The installation will join parts of Müge Yilmaz’s feminist science fiction library The Adventures of Umay Ixa Kayakizi and Anna Hoetjes’ textile work Seven Sisters Fighting Back.
During UNFAIR23, from 16-19 November 2023, the booth will be open to the public to offer a moment of rest, pause, go through the books and reflect on the patchwork sky. On 18 November there will be the possibility to join the reading group “Goddess Change” and on 19 November senakirfa A. will join to offer a reading.
PROGRAM
Saturday 18th of November
Reading group ‘Goddess Change’
15.00 – 17.00 (let me know if you want to join)
Sunday 19th of November
Reading by senakirfa A
Starting at 14.00
Tickets UNFAIR23 here.
Read more about Buro Stedelijk.
November 16 – 19
Location:
Gashouder
Klönneplein 1
1014 DD Amsterdam
This project will continue to take the form of a symposium and exhibition in 2024 in collaboration with W139 and Buro Stedelijk.
About Müge Yilmaz
About Anna Hoetjes