Amid intersecting crises: climate catastrophe, rising fascist movements, cultural/ethnic erasure, and political unrest; how do we continue to imagine futures worth living in? What forms of knowledge, resistance, and remembrance might guide us in (re)building?
As part of the Reply:Forward exhibition, this conversation brings together two artists whose work explores memory, migration, resistance, and ritual. Through poetic language, layered storytelling, and visual investigation, they invite us to consider hope not as an endpoint, but as a persistent, rhythmic practice of holding on, letting go, and reshaping what’s next.
Meet artists Adejumo and Lavickaite
Featuring Pelumi Adejumo, whose writing and performance plays about/with the complications of migration and mourning, gospel music and alienation, and Augustina Lavickaite, whose installation Information Smuggling unearths a hidden history of resistance through underground publishing in a previously occupied Lithuania, the talk traces how both artists engage with modes of remembering, of speaking otherwise, and of reimagining the conditions in which we live.
Moderated by Thierno Deme, co-curator of Reply:Forward, this event opens with a short reading by Pelumi, followed by a conversation that reflects on the exhibition’s broader theme: how do young makers make sense of and give shape to hope today?
Moderator: Thierno Deme
Guests: Pelumi Adejumo and Augustina Lavickaite
Date: August 9, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (with optional outfl ow)
Where: NDSM Fuse, AmsterdamEntry: FREE
A donation for NDSM FUSE is appreciated, via QR or cash.The working language is Dutch and/or English.
