COOP SUMMIT 2025: seven study groups forge their research into an assemblage of public happenings in Nicosia on the island of Cyprus.
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Dear friends and comrades, dear all,
As "Roaming Academy" we are temporarily rooting there, where we are welcomed as friends by friends. The Dutch Art Institute is back in Nicosia and invites those who happen to be around on the island of Cyprus on the 24th, 25th and 26th of June, to join us for 3 days of thoughtful intra-action.
Against the maddening backdrop of a world wilfully put on fire, with too many bystanders in denial, 97 DAI-students & tutors from 39 different countries are set to enact COOP SUMMIT 2025, the wrap up of our 2024-2025 collective study and research trajectory, the so-called COOP study groups. The COOP constitutes one out of DAI's four distinctive curriculum components.
COOPs are one year-long collaborative, un-disciplined study trajectories where research is empowered by partnerships between the DAI and: De Appel Amsterdam, Archive Ensemble (Berlin, Dakar, Milan), Bulegoa z/b (Bilbao), Hosting Lands (Copenhagen), If I Can't Dance I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution (Amsterdam), Neringa Forest Architecture (Vilnius) and SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin).
As COOP convenor we acknowledge that a lot of truly transformative work in education is done outside the confinement of the university. By commissioning non-academic art collectives to curate and guide transdisciplinary, collaborative research trajectories, our seven COOP study groups bring the academic and the vernacular together around pertinent questions.
How to live and study together without reproducing violences of past and present ? By holding space for alternative, less extractivist forms of research we rethink our relation with art, academia and the world.
After a year of intensive gatherings across Europe, we now excitedly share the experimental, collaborative research outcomes, curated by our seven COOP study groups.
We look forward to welcome you!
Gabriëlle Schleijpen
artistic director | head of program
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Tuesday, June 24
13:30 - 15:30 ~ Invitation to Actions: Ensembling, Sincering, Transmitting
18:00 - 20:00 ~ to live by ear, and the eye will follow
Wednesday, June 25
16:00 - 18:00 ~ Good Deal
20:30 – 22:30 ~ [WE SEARCHED SO MUCH IN ERRATIC WAYS]
Thursday, June 26
12:00 - 14:00 ~ To see the Forest for the Pines
17:00 - 19:00 ~ The Mountain Hangs Overhead
20:30 – 22:30 ~ Hearing interval; there is a place for you
PROGRAM PER COOP
TUESDAY 24 JUNE 13:30 - 15:30
In partnership with SAVVY Contemporary,
study group An Invitation to Action - A Basis for Hope presents
Invitation to Actions: Ensembling, Sincering, Transmitting
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TUESDAY 24 JUNE 18:00 - 20:00
In partnership with De Appel Amsterdam,
study group Living Room: Rehearsals towards Place-making presents
to live by ear, and the eye will follow
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WEDNESDAY 25 JUNE 16:00 - 18:00
In partnership with Hosting Lands,
study group Tresspass, Loopholes, Action Design presents
Good Deal
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WEDNESDAY 25 JUNE 20:30 - 22:30
In partnership with Archive Ensemble
study group Half Land, Half Sea: Transcartography of Resistance presents
[WE SEARCHED SO MUCH IN ERRATIC WAYS]
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THURSDAY 26 JUNE 12:00 - 14:00
In partnership with Neringa Forest Architecture,
study group FOREST INSCRIPTIONS presents
To see the Forest for the Pines
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THURSDAY 26 JUNE 17:00 - 19:00
In partnership with Bulegoa z/b
study group Curating Positions: Voz de Tierra presents
The Mountain Hangs Overhead
THURSDAY 26 JUNE 20:30 - 22:30
In partnership with If I Can't Dance I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution,
study group The Word and the Wound 2 / And Now You are Ready to Sing presents
Hearing interval; there is a place for you
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Who else:
Student reporters: Ivor Glavaš, Masha Domracheva.
Invited reporters from the local eco-system.
Photo documentation: Alaa Abu Asad.
Press contact: COOP's education leader Philippa Driest Phedflip@gmail.com
Production: DAI's roaming crew + back office
Archipelago Weaver 2025: Marina Christodoulidou
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When:
24, 25 and 26 June, 2025
Venues:
State Gallery of Contemporary Art- SPEL
73 Ammochostou
1016 Nicosia
Thkio Ppalies
2b Kissamou
1040 Nicosia
Our huge gratitude goes out to SPEL, to Thkio Ppalies, as well as to the Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, NIMAC.
Click for more information about DAI's modus operandi in Nicosia between 18 and 28 June 2025.
Journeying with DAI leads to the accomplishment of an accredited MA in Art Praxis | under the auspices of ArtEZ University of the Arts | Arnhem