May 10, 2025 ~ Welcome to today's ongoing screening of three movies from DAI's archive: “A Piece of Dada” (2018, Duration 30’), “Study, Bodies and the Spaceship: Movements in a Minor Key” (2019, Duration 36’), and “Evergreening the Cut” (2023, Duration 39’).

COOP SUMMIT 2023 ~ Bulegoa Z/B and COOP study group Curating Positions: A cut through the screen present Evergreening the Cut [towards and beyond film's photosynthesis] in Nida, Lithuania. Photo Baha Görkem Yalim for DAI.

Ever-greening the Cut

“Let’s sit with
Or dance our way to
The very end of end titles
The raw version
The unclean cut”

Ever-greening the Cut [towards and beyond film's photosynthesis] is a short film produced by the COOP study group Curating Positions: A cut through the screen (Marwa Arsanios, Leon Filter, Leire Vergara with Anastasia Nefedova, Claudia Medeiros, Daniël van der Giessen, Gabriel Acevedo, Ian Nolan, Saverio Cantoni, Savva Dudin, Till Langschied, Tomer Fruchter, Weronika Zalewska), for COOP SUMMIT 2023 in NIDA.

In Evergreening the Cut the camera and viewer become active participants, blurring the line between observer and dweller, fiction and nonfiction, to enact social complexities on the verge of humor and meta-reflection, in a celebration of imperfections and in recognition of the stories embedded in objects, more-than-human agents, and their relations.

We Eat Circles And Drink Squares. Rehearsal of The Art's room Factory in Epen during DAI week 5, February 2019. Video-documented by Silvia Ulloa + Krista Jantowski for " Study, Bodies and the Spaceship: Movements in a Minor Key".

Study, Bodies and the Spaceship: Movements in a Minor Key

Study, Bodies and the Spaceship: Movements in a Minor Key was commissioned by DAI for "soft propaganda" purposes and features DAI alumni Aziza Harmel, Vinita Gatne, Dina A. Mohamed, Eric Peter, Simon(e) van Saarloos, Vittoria Soddu and many others around and together with them. It was directed by Krista Jantowsi, filmed by Silvia Ulloa and co-edited between Krista Jantowsi, Silvia Ulloa and Gabriëlle Schleijpen. Study, Bodies and the Spaceship premiered on July 3rd, 2019 during a screening at WALTER books in Arnhem.

Study, Bodies and the Spaceship: Movements in a Minor Key speaks about what the DAI is and does through bodies that are living the experience of learning, living, and growing together during their studies, as a space where trajectories meet, entangle before they part again into the world, and a way to rethink education as a shapeshifting practice and a network of people.

"A Piece of Dada" ~ video still.

A Piece of Dada

“…Dada has a dirty secret. She doesn’t just eat the dollar bills—she shits them too. Via the underground sewer system, her faeces are funding the avant-garde revolution, which will topple the Opera regime once and for all. Or so she thinks…” 

A Piece of Dada has been written, filmed, and acted by COOP study group OPERA CORRUPTION. On Tricks, Tricksters and Charms (Clementine Edwards, Lukas Hoffmann, Tirza Kater, Rabea Ridlhammer, Clara Saito, Giorgos Tsiongas, and Wilfred Tomescu with the support of Pauline Curnier Jardin and Sara Giannini), for COOP Summit 2018 in Athens.

A Piece of Dada is a collective film project that engages with opera and its many contradictions, where corruption is considered as an interstitial zone of friction between the sexual, the economical, the political, and the aesthetic sphere. If traditional opera brings on stage the drama of desire and power, in a total work of exaggeration, A Piece of Dada questions the formation of social and individual identity, the political role of the mask, the intricacy of realness and fiction.