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oct. 15

These Birds of Temptation – intercalations 6

dec. 22

Our text Speechless: Some Notes About Birds, in this beautiful 436 pages thick book. Order here. Edited by Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin, published by K.Verlag and HKW

At The Edges Of Sleep - Moving Images And Somnolent Spectators by Jean Ma

may. 23

Many recent works of contemporary art, performance, and film turn a spotlight on sleep, wresting it from the hidden, private spaces to which it is commonly relegated. At the Edges of Sleep considers sleep in film and moving image art as both a subject matter to explore onscreen and a state to induce in the audience.

Mosaic: Special Issue: The Archive Issue

jul. 23

This is what we did during the covid years: a lot of in-depth reading as site-specific research, into the pile of circa 50 Mosaic Magazines, from the first Issue (October 1967) to now. Mosaic issue 54.2 is the first result: a special archival issue developed as the first part of a collaborative project between us, the magazine and Shep Steiner. Shifting through fifty years of old issues and forty times as many published essays, we collectively selected twelve texts to republish.
The second part of the project is developed as a series of lectures, published in subsequent issues: ( Mosaic 55.1 (with texts by Erin Manning, Paul Huebener, Jonas Staal, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin, and Steven Duval and Marina McDougall), and Mosaic 55.2: Relative Time/Little Time Proceedings, Part 2.

introduction about our work and collaboration with Mosaic, by Shepherd Steiner and Karalyn Dokurno.

The Casablanca Art School: Platforms and Patterns for a Postcolonial Avant-Garde (1962–1987)

feb. 24

The Casablanca Art School, Platforms and Patterns for a Postcolonial Avant-Garde, at Sharjah Art Foundation and Schirn Kunsthalle, includes the School of Walking by Bik Van der Pol, featuring artists Fatima Mazmouz, Hassan Darsi, Mohamed Fariji, and journalist and cultural operator Maria Daïf, Manal Aziz & Hamza Boussedra, filmmaker Nabil Qerjij and architect Imad Dhamani, and the video At the end of this long journey, Bik Van der Pol in dialogue with Bert Flint (November 2021, Marrakesh)

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The poem that jumps the fence

nov. 24

The poem that jumps the fence features weekly performances on the public part of Abu Dhabi Beach and a workshop series connecting words and sand as real and symbolic material that binds our world together.
Every Sunday, 2.30 pm at Abu Dhabi public beach, a performer writes a short poem on the sand, only for it to inevitably fade away. The ritual, repeated weekly, turns the beach into a blank page where poetry continuously unfolds. During collective workshops in collaboration with local poets and writers, participants generate text for the performances. The cyclical process depends on sand, the third most-used natural resource after water and air, critical to modern civilization yet rapidly depleting.

performance location
playlist of weekly performances