A summer solstice programme of walks, talks and rituals with Adjoa Armah, Chandra Frank, Sara Giannini, Fazal Rivzi, Mikki Stelder, Arnisa Zeqo.
Kunsthuis SYB and If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution are thrilled to invite you to Tidal Gatherings: Leakage – Passage – Spillage, a performative symposium taking place at Kunsthuis SYB on June 21 - 22.
Leakage – Passage – Spillage is the second iteration of an ongoing experimental project on the intersections of water, ecology, and Dutch colonialism, curated and initiated by Chandra Frank. Through a moving trajectory of events, Tidal Gatherings examines how the workings of race, control, mastery and order are deeply embedded in the Dutch landscape and its practices of water management.
Responding to Kunsthuis SYB’s current trajectory, “Unpacking the House,” Tidal Gatherings lands in Friesland and considers how thinking with water can reshape our sense of space, time, and relation – dissolving dualities between inner and outer worlds. How do colonial ideas of water management relate to bodily tides, emotional floodings, and leakages? How does water inhabit our bodies, and how do we inhabit water? Where does water gather us? How do tides orient us?
Tidal Gatherings: Leakage – Passage – Spillage fosters interregional collaboration and aims to highlight the work of independent curators and thinkers. It is curated in close collaboration with Arnisa Zeqo (Kunsthuis SYB) and Sara Giannini (If I Can’t Dance), with production support from Alice Conforti and Gisanne Hendriks (Kunsthuis SYB).
More details coming soon when you sign up!
On June 22, we also organise an additional event, a mudhike from Paesens-Moddergat. If you'd like to join, please indicate when siging-up. For this event a fee of €15 is required. Participants need to arrange their own transport to the start of the walk. The hike starts at 12:00.
NOTE:
*The programme is in English and moves between Kunsthuis SYB and surrounding rural areas.
*Kunsthuis SYB is a historical building and does not have an elevator, unfortunately parts of the programme are not accessible with a wheelchair.
Image: Chandra Frank, Intertidal zone notations (Wadden Sea), 2024
