At the last open gathering, we had an inspiring conversation with the Home of Participation artists-in-residence Andrei Bessa, Nuka Horvat and Somer Şpat.
For the opening gathering #7, we invite you to join us at the HoP Artist-in-Residence Showcase: Workshopping, Performing, Listening: Reassign Disobedience, at 4bid Gallery | OT301, on the 26th September from 16:30 to 22:00.
For three months, the artists have developed their practices in Amsterdam through artistic research, experimentation, and exchange. The showcase brings together three distinct artistic propositions across the afternoon and evening. They belong to the same residency and curatorial context, but each event can be experienced independentl
The program
At 16:30 Disobedience = Creativity Zine Workshop by Nuka Horv
What can disobedience teach us about creativity?
Together, we’ll reflect on our positions in society and explore creativity as a tool for imagining and building different ways of living. We’ll play with forms and ideas of civil and social disobedience as creative practice, experimenting with zines, poetry, diary entries, drawings, questions and other forms of expression.
No previous experience is needed.
At 19:00 (to be confirmed) – bear.ing by Andrei Bessa
Once, in the future, a body became a bear. Or perhaps it was already carrying one.
bear.ing is a speculative installation where a mythology takes shape from a large, fat body: part bear, part unicorn, part archive, part becoming.
The work begins with bear: to carry, to endure, to give birth, to be a bear. What if not fitting is not a failure, but a form of world-making? What if there is already more than one body inside a body?
Somewhere between archive and prophecy, bear.ing becomes a site of birth: where a creature, a body, a language and a mythology are carried into being.
bear me, bear with me.
At 21:00 (to be confirmed) Somer Şpat
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IN BETWEEN
There is no need to rush from one work to another. Move in and out. Between the acts, take some time to meet, talk, digest what you have experienced — or simply have something to eat and drink at the delicious and affordable Café Gilde @cafegilde.mokum, next to the 4bid Gallery, also in the OT301 building.
ONE LAST CONVERSATION
Following the final performance, Home of Participation will bring the three residents together for a brief round of questions, opening a final conversation around their works, their processes, and what emerged during their months in Amsterdam.
We’ll then close the showcase and celebrate the residency with drinks together!
This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.