From October 7-9, Framer Framed will host the Amsterdam Assembly: Letting go of Having to Speak All the Time, a gathering and thinking space for activists, artists, scholars, and other cultural practitioners to discuss various topics around decolonisation, pedagogy, racism, and the politics of archiving.  

How can we talk to each other to pass down intergenerational memories? How can we not repeat violent patterns in our ecosystems? Let us practice intellectual humility. Let us step aside, let us stop taking centre stage. Let us talk to each other and practice listening. We will sit and think together. We will write in commons, and pass on certain knowledge and wisdom. How do we start listening?

The Assembly employ an 'ethics of listening' as a useful mode to create a space for thinking together and establish conditions for interconnectedness between different locales. While this Assembly takes place in the Netherlands, we want it to be a site of reflection where activists, artists, and cultural practitioners in the Netherlands think about their struggles and positionalities in relation to the pressing matters in different contexts.

HOW TO JOIN

October 7 and 9: register via ZOOM to access the three day event online.

October 8: Register via Eventbrite to participate in person, or follow us on YOUTUBE channel! Please read our corona regulations.

This event is free and in English; you can Please visit our website for the full program.

PROGRAM FOR OCTOBER 8 AT FRAMER FRAMED

OCTOBER 8, 11:00-21:00 CET |

11:00-12:00 | Performative lecture: A decade of Zwarte Piet is racisme and Carniva

Quinsy Gario

12:00-13:00 | Mixtape on Radical Institutionalism

IMAGINART (Yazan Khalili, Eszter Szakacs, Aria Spinelli, Chiara de Cesari, Abdulkerim Pusat, Nuraini Juliastuti, Carine Zaayman)

13:00-14:00 | LUNCH: Launch of Reasoning podcast series, Connecting Oceans, playing pilot

14:00-15:30 | Storytelling

Homing (Frigiti Tori), Home is a Story You Carry on Your Back (ASKV PAO), Stories from Kap Na’m To Fena (Lakoat Kujawas, Mollo)

15:30-17:00 | Reflection session with Hodan Warsame

17:00-19:00 | JOIN US FOR DINNER BREAK +

THE EXHIBITION OPENING Powerplay – Deals All Over by We Sell Reality

19:00-21:00 | Decolonial Joy Party

Julian Togar Abraham, Diana Cantarey, Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba, Sungeun Lee

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