Beloved COOP partners If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution are thrilled to invite you to Tidal Gatherings: Leakage – Passage – Spillage, a summer solstice programme of walks, talks and rituals with Adjoa Armah, Chandra Frank, Sara Giannini, Fazal Rizvi, Mikki Stelder, Arnisa Zeqo taking place at Kunsthuis SYB on 21- 22 June 2025.
Leakage – Passage – Spillage is the second iteration of an ongoing curatorial experimental project on the intersections of water, ecology, and Dutch colonialism, curated and initiated by Chandra Frank. Through a moving trajectory of events, Tidal Gatherings examines how the workings of race, control, mastery and order are deeply embedded in the Dutch landscape and its practices of water management.
Responding to Kunsthuis SYB’s current trajectory, “Unpacking the House,” Tidal Gatherings lands in Friesland and considers how thinking with water can reshape our sense of space, time, and relation – dissolving dualities between inner and outer worlds. How do colonial ideas of water management relate to bodily tides, emotional floodings, and leakages? How does water inhabit our bodies, and how do we inhabit water? Where does water gather us? How do tides orient us?
Tidal Gatherings: Leakage – Passage – Spillage, fosters interregional collaboration and aims to highlight the work of independent curators and thinkers. It is curated in close collaboration with Arnisa Zeqo (Kunsthuis SYB) and Sara Giannini (If I Can’t Dance), with production support from Alice Conforti (Kunsthuis SYB).
21 June, 2025
11:00 - 19:00
About Sara Giannini
About If I Can't Dance 2045-25 study group The Word and the Wound 2