DAI-BULLETIN 6: Planetary Records: Performing Justice Between Art and Law
Dear friends and relations,
This month DAI-week sessions will be accompanied by clanging bells as they are all taking place in the historical town of Mechelen (one of the centers of the Northern Renaissance) between March 9 and 15, where we are linking up with Contour Biennale 8 ~ Polyphonic Worlds: Justice as Medium, brilliantly curated by Natasha Ginwala (opening today, Friday March 10).
We would be delighted to see some of you join us on the 11th and 12th March in Mechelen, for the combined Contour 8 Public Programme /and our Roaming Assembly#12:
Planetary Records: Performing Justice Between Art and Law
Co-curated between Natasha Ginwala for Contour 8 and Rachel O'Reilly for DAI the program examines artists’ role in challenging normative legal foundations while transforming our understanding of response-ability to double-meanings of law/lore, and tracing the inevitably formal dimensions of present day struggles.
Live Coverage
If you are not able to come to Belgium we like to draw your attention to the live coverage of this exceptionally rich symposium at e-flux Conversations. DAI invited Federica Bueti to act as editor-in chief and to form a temporary editorial office. DAI-students Florencia Almirón, Alaa Abu Asad, Sara Benaglia, Luca Carboni, Clementine Edwards, Sonia Kazovsky, Wayne Lim, Ines Marita Schärer, Isabelle Sully and Wilfred Tomescu will take up the roles of editors and writers, alternatively teaming up to cover the events.
Roaming Academy
During their Planetary Campus days in Mechelen the DAI's student body (55 artists, activists, curators and hybrids) will engage with a wide array of practitioners, involved, in one way or another, in Contour Biennale 8, as well as with DAI's 'core' and 'visiting' tutors, associate researchers, staff and chefs alike for dense seminars, communal meals and numerous face to face meetings:
Nick Aikens, Bassam El Baroni, Eric Baudelaire, Federica Bueti, Gregory Castera, Nikos Doulos, Pedro Gómez-Egaña, Jon Mikel Euba, Michel Feher, Rik Fernhout, Susan Gibb, Natasha Ginwala, Florian Göttke, Amelia Groom, Louis Henderson, Asia Komarova, Arvo Leo, Sebastian De Line, Ricardo Liong-A-Kong, Sven Lütticken, Basir Mahmood, David Maroto, Pedro Neves Marques, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Pallavi Paul, Emily Pethick, Mari Pitkänen, Elizabeth A.Povinelli, Judy Radul, Rachel O'Reilly, Peter Sattler, Gabriëlle Schleijpen, Mariana Silva, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam, Jacq van der Spek, Anne Szefer-Karlsen, Leire Vergara, Marina Vishmidt, Susanne M. Winterling, Vivian Ziherl and Tirdad Zolghadr.
The detailed program of this DAI-week is to be found underneath this mail.
DAI-week 6 will be immediately followed by DAI-week 7 as on Monday March 13 Roaming Academy group Southern Wave, led by Casco's Yolande van der Heide i.c.w. Cráter Invertido is heading for Mexico-City. Tuesday March 14 our Roaming Academy group In Dialogue with Robotics, led by Bassam El Baroni, travels from Brussels to Boston, while On praxis an unstated theory. (Writing out loud), led by Jon Mikel Euba and Susan Gibb is set for Casablanca. Teaching as a Form of Art, led by Ruth Noack can be found working in Salvador da Bahia till March 27.
Our next bulletin will bring you updates from these project destinations. For now I wish you all the best and fingers crossed for dangerously crucial Dutch elections on March 15 (if you are registered as a Dutch national: DO THE RIGHT THING and please let's forget about our usual leftist nitpicking - there is too much at stake, really)!
Warmly,
Gabriëlle Schleijpen
on behalf of the DAI-community.
DAI wishes to thank
Day To Day Program DAI-WEEK 6
A couple of behind the scenes shots from the tarot reading Denise Ferreira da Silva did for the Dutch Art Institute class during her guest tutorial on Friday, 10 March 2017. Images courtesy Clementine Edwards.
Thursday March 9
Arrival all students in Mechelen.
Check-in at Youth Hostel De Zandpoort (Zandpoortvest 70).
13:00 Communal lunch at De Zandpoort, cooked by DAI alumn Peter Sattler.
14:00-21:00 Sessions of Coop Academy 1 & 2. Location: Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten (Minderbroedersgang 5).
Seminar I Left my pdf in Arnhem today in Mechelen, with Tirdad Zolghadr.
Seminar Curating Positions led by The Showroom; Emily Pethick and Leire Vergara. Today with Denise Ferreira da Silva.
Seminar Publishing class: (Against) Neuralgia: Care of the Brain in Times of Cognitive Capitalism, framework by Open!, today with Florian Göttke and Amelia Groom.
Seminar Curating class: Practicing Deviance: Methods for Art and Curating framework by the Van Abbemuseum, today with Nick Aikens and Annie Fletcher.
18:30 Communal dinner at De Zandpoort, cooked by our vegan chef Mari Pitkänen.
Friday March 10
9:30 - 13:00: Continuation Coop Academy 1 & 2 at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten.
Seminar I Left my pdf in Arnhem with Tirdad Zolghadr and David Maroto.
Seminar Curating Positions led by The Showroom; Emily Pethick and Leire Vergara.
Seminar Curating class: Practicing Deviance: Methods for Art and Curating framework by the Van Abbemuseum, today Nick Aikens and Annie Fletcher.
Seminar Publishing class: (Against) Neuralgia: Care of the Brain in Times of Cognitive Capitalism, framework by Open!, today with Florian Göttke and Amelia Groom.
13:00 Communal lunch at De Zandpoort, cooked by our vegan chef Mari Pitkänen.
13:00 Brief meet and greet ~ Federica Bueti with the DAI's editorial team. Location: De Zandpoort
18:30 Communal dinner at De Zandpoort, cooked by DAI alumn Peter Sattler.
AFTERNOON AND EVENING, Professional and VIP Preview, FESTIVE OPENING CONTOUR BIENNALE. (Begijnenstraat 19)
Saturday March 11
9.00 Breakfast at Youth Hostel De Zandpoort & meeting Council with Malcolm Kratz, Clementine Edwards, Baha Görkem Yalim, larose, Leon Filter, Mónica Lacerda, Flora Woudstra,Olga Micińska, SungHoon Kim, Elvis Krstulović, Zhenia Vasiliev, Joy Mariama Smith, Sonia Kazovsky, Savannah Theis, Ala Abu Asad, Nika Timashkova, Hannah Kindler and Sanne Kabalt.
11:00-20:30 Contour Biennale 8 Public Program/ DAI Roaming Assembly #12: 'Planetary Records: Performing Justice Between Art and Law’. Curators: Natasha Ginwala & Rachel O'Reilly.
Location: Holy Ghost Chapel and House (Mindebroedersgang 3)
Concurrently: face to face meetings between students and guests Pedro Gómez-Egaña, Eric Baudelaire, Michel Feher, Louis Henderson, Arvo Leo, Sebastian de Line, Sven Lütticken (HTDTWT), Basir Mahmood, Pedro Neves Marques, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Paul Pallavi, Elizabeth Povinelli, Judy Radul, Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Mariana Silva, Anne Szefer-Karlsen, Susanne M. Winterling and Vivian Ziherl
Locations to be communicated on paper.
13:00 Communal lunch at Didactisch restaurant Het Groen Waterke (Wollemarkt 16), cooked by Asia Komarova.
21:00 Communal dinner at Didactisch restaurant Het Groen Waterke, cooked by Asia Komarova.
Sunday March 12
Locations: Cultural Centre (Minderbroedersgang 5) and De Maan Theatre (Minderbroedersgang 3)
Concurrently: Saturday's face to face meetings continued /one on one tutorials How To Do Things With Theory, with Bassam El Baroni, Sven Lütticken and Rachel O'Reilly.
Locations to be confirmed.
13:30 Communal lunch at Didactisch restaurant Het Groen Waterke, cooked by Asia Komarova.
20:30 Communal dinner at Didactisch restaurant Het Groen Waterke, cooked by Asia Komarova.
21:30 - 22:30 ROUND TABLE ~ Gabriëlle Schleijpen, ALL students & anybody who wants to join in.
Topic: Roaming Academy next week & Roaming Academy in the future plus anything brought onto the table. Location: De Zandpoort
Monday March 13
9:30-13:00 How To Do Things With Theory
Location: Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten.
13:00 -14:00 Communal lunch at De Zandpoort, cooked by DAI alumn Peter Sattler.
14:00 - 18:30 one on one tutorials How To Do Things With Theory (except for Marina Vishmidt' s - Marina will set aside time later on for skype-meetings).
14:00 - 18:30 Concurrently: individual meetings with Gabriëlle Schleijpen at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten (by appointment only !).
18:30 Communal dinner at De Zantpoort cooked by Asia Komarova.
20:00 - Seminar by Marina Vishmidt ( location to be confirmed).
Concurrenty: one on one tutorials How To Do Things With Theory (location to be confirmed).
Departure to Brussels of Roaming Academy Southern Wave, led by Casco, traveling to Mexico-City till March 27.
Tuesday March 14
Departure to Brussels of the Roaming Academy groups In Dialogue with Robotics, led by Bassam El Baroni, traveling to Boston till March 27; On praxis an unstated theory. (Writing out loud), led by Jon Mikel Euba and Susan Gibb, travelling to Casablanca till March 24; and Teaching as a Form of Art, led by Ruth Noack, travelling to Salvador-Bahia till March 27.