'Tongues'

About

Areas where many cultures and languages come together create spaces of in-betweenness that raise questions about what constitutes a home, and about how people formulate and reformulate their identity based on the culture or language they find themselves in.

Searching for home and a sense of self, in Tongues eleven artists explore how they view these issues by responding to a written text that is important to their sense of belonging or un-belonging. Together, these texts and artworks will form a new narrative, a new tongue that speaks to a broader sense of home, community, and identity in an increasingly multicultural society.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

Can Bora, Susanna Brenner, Anthea Bush, Finn Caird, Rika Maja Duevel, Randy Fokke, Alexandra Freye, Britt Geerdink, Lorena Rode, Polina Shuvalova, Dejana Vuckovic Simovic.

SIDE-ACTIVITIES / WORKSHOPS

• March 14th | Opening at 18h with the music performance “The Silent Boy and the Aurora of New York” inspired by two poems by Federico Garcia Lorca, performed by Ainhoa Pérez Echepare and Álvaro Rey de Viñas
• March 17th | Somatic Workshop by Can Bora
• March 21st | Open Mic by HetMoet publisher – with multilingual performances
• March 28th NDSM Get Lost: Exhibition open until 21h + performance from the choir Komentenkoor
• March 30th | Poetry Writing Workshop by Michiel Ris (date to be confirmed)
• April 6th | Bookmaking Workshop by Rika Maja Duel
• A series of workshops by Susanna Brenner and Marta Pisco

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/ This exhibition is made possible by the contribution of Amsterdamse Fonds voor de Kunst. /