2015- 2016: SPEAKING WITHOUT THUMBS ~ we proudly present video excerpts, combined with written reports on 16 Acts with guest respondents: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Ekaterina Degot as well as DAI's theory tutors Bassam el Baroni, Rachel O'Reilly and Marina Vishmidt

tag: Arnhem

Two long days in July 2016 were dedicated to 16 lecture-performances by our graduating students. The format was embraced here as a longstanding unique discipline, a hybrid of research, lecture, visual art and performative narrative techniques.

For the duration of twenty uninterrupted minutes each student was called to 'speak' to an audience consisting of their peers, two cameras (live-stream & documentary) and the esteemed guest respondents 

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung & 

Ekaterina Degot 

for this occasion teaming up with DAI-theory tutors

Bassam El Baroni

Rachel O'Reilly & 

Marina Vishmidt .

Beginning their presentation with a carefully crafted key question, the graduates all presented a 20 minute lecture. Other than the limits of the given time and space frame there were no restrictions to the content and the format of the performance. Following each presentation the two invited respondents and the tutors (alternating) performed an improvised, spoken reflection while simultaneuously engaging with "the question". 

Referee: Gabriëlle Schleijpen

Reports: Marianna Maruyama 

Video documentation: Silvia Ulloa 

Live streaming & technical assistance:

Ricardo Liong-A-Kong in collaboration with Showroom Arnhem were the sessions took place.

TYI: this was ONE out of FOUR modules the 2016 graduates had to complete successfully in order to obtain their MA. 

PROGRAM 

Monday July 11

14:00

"Maintaining and optimising healthcare in the face of growing demand"

Joost Mellink (Netherlands)in collaboration with Jos Vliegenthart.

video excerpt and summary

14:45 

"((A)roma))nce / A roadtrip on an organic, dark brown stream of consciousness"

Peter Kristinn: Peter Sattler and Kristinn Guðmundsson (Austria and Iceland)

video excerpt and summary

15:30

"Is it too late to speculate?"

Panagiotis Panagiotakopoulos (Greece)

video excerpt and summary

16:30 

"A Spiral Dance, A Circuit"

Wei Hu (China PR)

video excerpt and summary

17:15

"HEURISTIC RECORDS (2015 - ongoing)"

Valentina Miorandi (Italy)

video excerpt and summary

20:00

"A Negative Genealogy (a work in progress)"

Pilar Mata Dupont (Australia)

video excerpt and summary

Tuesday July 12

09:30

Xiyun Dai (China PR)

"Pause"

video excerpt and summary

10:15

"Post-Contingent Coherence"

Melissa Tun Tun (Switzerland)

video excerpt and summary

11:15

"Beyond complexity fatigue"

Mathilde Sauzet Mattei (France)

video excerpt and summary

12:00

"..almost impossible to describe; and it was by analogy that they called it colour at all."

Jammie Nicholas (UK)

video excerpt and summary

14:00

"The Machine & I Split The Work Fifty-Fifty"

Katja den Dulk (Netherlands)

video excerpt and summary

14:45

"It's about getting lost."

Maja Renn (Poland)

video excerpt and summary

15:30

"a jar and a half of knowledge"

Nil Ilkbasaran (Turkey/Netherlands)

video excerpt and summary

16:30

"Dear Louise, there's a heat wave in Athens and the streets are bare."

Sebastian De Line (Canada)

video excerpt and summary

19:40

"Post-Contingent Coherence"

Miguel Ángel Reglo Robles (Spain)

video excerpt and summary

20:25

"Half-Figure"

Martha Jager (Netherlands)

video excerpt and summary

DAI would like to thank Yael Davids, Natasha Ginwala, Rebecca Sakoun, Arnisa Zeqo and Vivian Ziherl for advising the graduating students during the preparations for this event.