Elke drie maanden ben je op de vrijdagavond welkom bij Werkplaats Molenwijk voor een gratis maaltijd en optredens in het gezelschap van andere buurtbewoners. Op vrijdag 27 december 2024 organiseren de buurtkoks Karam Keuken in de Werkplaats.

Karam Keuken is een cultureel buurtdiner dat is ontstaan vanuit Molenwijk Bloeit!, een maandelijks lente-poëzie-diner op initiatief van mensen uit de Molenwijk in Amsterdam-Noord. Buurtgenoten presenteerden verhalen en poëzie aan de andere gasten, terwijl de drie buurtkoks Sonya, Ghada en Enaam de werkplaats omtoverden tot een restaurant.

Diezelfde buurtkoks kwamen op de naam voor het nieuwe Karam Keuken. Het woord ‘Karam’ betekent in het Arabisch en Turks ‘gul’, ‘gastvrij’ en ‘iets geven zonder terug te verwachten’. Op de avond zelf is er ook een open mic waar buurtbewoners vrijblijvend verhalen, poëzie of muziek kunnen voordragen.

Op vrijdag 27 december 17:00 – 20:00 is de eerstvolgende editie.

Je kunt gewoon aanschuiven, maar aanmelden is gewenst. Stuur hiervoor een mailtje naar sterre@framerframed.nl

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Organised by the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (Amsterdam University of the Arts) on 26 May and 2 & 3 June.

Symposium: Teacher as conceptual artist

On 15 December at 14:00, Framer Framed invites you to join a tour of The Anarchist Citizenship: People Made of Stories. The exhibition examines how storytelling, visual culture, architecture and social life (re)shape citizenship in Somaliland, the Somali region and its diaspora. It’s the result of a collaborative research project initiated by Amal Alhaag and Nadine Stijns, along with Mustafa Saeed and various other artists, thinkers, architects, and activists based in Somaliland/Somalia and its diasporas. This walk through the exhibition gives insight into the thematics of the research project, and zooms into the works and stories that shaped it. It will be led by Amal Alhaag and Nadine Stijns and there will be space for conversation afterwards.

How can we avoid, refuse, or obscure the colonial gaze and create images challenging the status quo? What power dynamics are at play when capturing an image, and what does it take to create images that celebrate the multiplicity of identities and experiences that sustain cultures in times of ongoing crises? These sets of questions animate The Anarchist Citizenship: People Made of Stories exhibition by exploring the possibilities of visual narratives, imagination and self-determination. The Anarchist Citizenship: People Made of Stories is informed by both local and diasporic visual culture and offers an alternative approach to understanding, broadcasting to/with/from as well as engaging with the world. By placing the agency of the people of Somali(land) at the centre of the narrative, it attempts to challenge the Eurocentric, (neo)colonial and imperialist hierarchies of who gets to document, write, and think about whom.

For this iteration of The Anarchist Citizenship, we invite Somali (diasporic) artists navigating the waters of cultural production, histories, war traumas, (diasporic) lifeworlds and possible futures. This exhibition is a holding space for visual, sonic, and poetic stories taking the form of installations, film screenings, poetry programmes, photography, archives, workshops, textiles and dialogic spaces.

Within this context, the spatial design takes on a crucial role – the exhibition design serves as an intermediary between the different artistic positions. It mirrors the provocative visual language, vibrant cosmos, aesthetic sensibilities and storytelling that define contemporary Somaliland – zooming into specifically its capital city, Hargeisa. The presented works reflect the collective efforts of those who participate in its creation, weaving together stories, histories, and language to create visual narratives that celebrate the complexities of citizenship in this region.

Together with collaborators and contributors Kinsi Abdulleh, Rashid Ali, Abdullah Barre, Salman Dirir, Sumia Juxun, Elmi Original, Mustafa Saeed and The Somali Museum UK, Amal Alhaag and Nadine Stijns will present a special The Anarchist Citizenship programme. Consisting of a visual installation, a screening and public gatherings that explore the complexities and joys of Somali social life, memory work and the ways communities create alternative ways of being together as survival strategies.

Register here: https://framerframed.stager.co/web/tickets/111470288

This tour will be available in English and Dutch. Admission is free.

Do you also think art should be free and accessible? Please consider supporting us with a donation when registering or by becoming a Framer Framed Friend: https://framerframed.nl/over-ons/friends/

This event may be photographed and filmed. Kindly let us know in advance if you prefer not to have your picture taken.
Framer Framed is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Amsterdam Fund for the Arts; Municipality of Amsterdam; and VriendenLoterij Fonds.

Guided Tour – The Anarchist Citizenship: People Made of Stories

Come to Werkplaats Molenwijk on 14 December 2024 18:00 for a screening of Retazo Móviles, a documentary which delves deeper into the legacy of the Chilean textile tradition Arpilleras. The screening will be accompanied by an exhibition of Arpilleras artworks, including one made by Molenwijk local residents in the Arpilleras Workshop Cycle: Molenwijk Textile Memories by Chilean artists Monet Barraza Madariaga and La Javi Textil.

Retazos Móviles is a documentary in which Latin American women stitch together their experiences of how public transport and mobility in remote areas of the Netherlands have shaped their lives. The film combines stop-motion with the Chilean textile tradition of Arpilleras, a technique developed during the dictatorship in Chile, where the textile works portrayed silenced stories. Its more profound question addresses issues of how lives are reconstructed in long trajectories of migration while, in telling our stories, a community of women is created.

This film is not just a documentary, but a methodological experiment that stems from scholar Sandra La Rota’s doctoral research. It poses the fundamental question: Who has the right to generate knowledge? The film breaks away from the urban-centric discourse and amplifies the voices of migrant women in rural areas of the Netherlands. Retazos Móviles pushes the boundaries of ancestral stitching techniques, which have long been used to give voice to silenced stories, and breathes new life into them through the use of stop-motion.

Retazos Móviles is a testament to the power of collaboration. Co-created among eleven women or people identifying as non-binary, it includes shots from eight different cameras. The music composition is not hidden in a postproduction process but is an integral part of the film’s creation. At the heart of this experiment is the question why we make films and how to include care and community building in the film-creation process. The project is a collaboration between Fundación Diáspora Solidaria (Mónica Barraza and Siria Wildbergh-Olivares), Club Entrelazadas (Javiera González Velásquez), Nene Moné in the music composition, and Elliot and Sandra La Rota in the audiovisual field.

In addition to the screening, previously made Arpilleras – including a collective Arpilleras artwork by the Molenwijk community – will be on display at Werkplaats Molenwijk. Three female neighborhood chefs from Karam Keuken will provide free snacks.

Join us on 14 December 2024 at 18:00 for a documentary and an exhibition on female textile heritage and sign up here to let us know you are coming!

The documentary is in Spanish with English subtitles. There will be given a Dutch summary and there are Dutch translations possible. Admission is free.

Do you also think art should be free and accessible? Please consider supporting us with a donation when registering or by becoming a Framer Framed Friend: https://framerframed.nl/over-ons/friends/

This event may be photographed and filmed. Kindly let us know in advance if you prefer not to have your picture taken.
Werkplaats Molenwijk is made possible in part by de Alliantie, Gemeente Amsterdam/Stadsdeel Noord, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.
Retazos Móviles received funding through the TOD-IS-RUR Project from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 956030.

Documentary Screening: Retazos Móviles at Werkplaats Molenwijk

On 12 December 2024 at Framer Framed, System of Systems launches the first two books in their Managing Displacement series: Outsourcing and Extraction. System of Systems is a research project that analyses the bureaucratic, spatial, and technological conditions shaping Europe’s migration landscape. The themes of each edition will be discussed by three contributors: critical media scholar Ariana Dongus, spatial and visual researcher Stefanos Levidis, and lecturer Hassan Ould Moctar, and is followed by a Q&A.

Managing Displacement explores the intricate web of migration management within and beyond Europe’s borders. Each publication begins with a theme or term to examine processes that restrict, surveil, or obscure displaced people. The first publication, Outsourcing, examines how the EU extends its borders beyond the continent by outsourcing border control. Recognising this practice within a historical trajectory of colonial ordering, it shows how responsibility is systematically deferred and how racist structures are propagated through border management.

The second publication, Extraction, offers a transhistorical perspective on contemporary border systems. The contributions explore extraction as a process that drives displacement, with enduring effects due to environmental devastation. They also examine extraction as a direct mechanism of border management that financially profits from those who are displaced.

Outsourcing contributors: Border Violence Monitoring Network, FRAUD, Nadine El-Enany, Hassan Ould Moctar
Extraction contributors: Ariana Dongus, Radha D’Souza, Stefanos Levidis, Angela Melitopoulos.

This event will be conducted in English. Admission is free.

Do you also think art should be free and accessible? Please consider supporting us with a donation when registering, or by becoming a Framer Framed Friend: https://framerframed.nl/over-ons/friends/

This event may be photographed and filmed. Kindly let us know in advance if you prefer not to have your picture taken.

Framer Framed is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Amsterdam Fund for the Arts; Municipality of Amsterdam; and VriendenLoterij Fonds.

Book Launch: System of Systems, Managing Displacement Series

On 10 December, in response to the current humanitarian crisis in Lebanon, Framer Framed hosts the fundraising event Friends for Lebanon, a night initiated by STUDIO BEIRUT in solidarity with the people of Lebanon. The night aims to raise funds for projects that support the people who were forced to leave their homes and villages and are now in refugee shelters in Beirut. With the ceasefire appearing to hold, thousands of Lebanese civilians are returning to their homes, finding them destroyed beyond repair.

Studio Beirut functions as an urban laboratory where several initiatives are gathered. During Friends for Lebanon, they specifically ask support for the Studio Beirut Soup Kitchen and Artists In Shelter by Beirut Art Centre.

The soup kitchen cooks meals for those staying in refugee centres in Beirut. For at least four upcoming months, Studio Beirut will cook for everyone without a home and in need of a meal. Using the kitchen of Brazzaville, they cook 3500 meals a month that are evenly distributed at several refugee centres by Nation Station. 

Artist in Shelter is an initiative that aims to bring the healing power of art to displaced children, bringing together a team of artists with diverse skills and backgrounds to provide young children displaced from their homes with an outlet for creative expression.

Please register here: https://framerframed.stager.co/web/tickets/111474942

Fundraising event: Friends for Lebanon

Framer Framed, in collaboration with the Prince Claus Fund and the University of Amsterdam’s newest research priority area Decolonial Futures, invites you to a panel discussion that brings together artists and researchers to consider the historical and postcolonial context of European support for arts and culture in the Global South. Join us for the discussion on 2 December 2024 at 14:00.

Twentieth-century decolonisation created new entanglements between artistic and political freedom — intertwining cultural patronage and policy with transnational visions of sovereignty, humanism, and universalism. The panel examines how European philanthropic support for arts and culture in the Global South participated in such complex entanglements.

The event will feature multidisciplinary artist and 2023 Seed Awardee, Chathuri Nissansala; cultural producer and Cycle 1 Building Beyond Fellow, Russel Hlongwane; Professor of Politics and Middle East Studies, Hanan Toukan; and art historian Simone Wille.

Taking the Prince Claus Fund as a case in point, the discussion examines the institutional structures of support and the visions that shape philanthropic desires to support the arts in times of political ruptures and transitions. The panellists will explore how the different actors involved in these networks perceive and experience these collaborations, considering the historical lineages and reckonings that must inform North-South exchanges today.

This event is in English. Admission is free.

Do you also think art should be free and accessible? Please consider supporting us with a donation when registering or by becoming a Framer Framed Friend: https://framerframed.nl/over-ons/friends/

This event may be photographed and filmed. Kindly let us know in advance if you prefer not to have your picture taken.

Panel Discussion: Desire and Vision – Art, Philanthropy, and Decolonial Futures

On 1 December 2024, Framer Framed hosts Bricks and Mortar as part of the Contemporary Conflict project. This event seeks to explore how political movements navigate conflict, as well as considering how they can instrumentalise art institutions to advance the struggles and conflicts they are active within.

The first session (15:00-16:30), centring internal conflict in political movements, is led by historian Hannah Proctor. She will be talking on global and historical methods for conflict transformation on the left. Proctor will be accompanied by Stroomversnellers, a Dutch organisation specialised in internal training programmes for grassroots groups.

The second session (17:00-18:30) will gather groups from the Palestine solidarity movement with a connection to the arts. The Not Surprised Collective, Book Bloc Brigade and Reading Vigil for Palestine will discuss their actions and think generatively about ways in which art infrastructure and creative methods can be a stepping stone in advancing political struggles.

Bricks and Mortar takes place in Amsterdam at a time of increasing repression and police violence, as well as divisive manipulation by political and media establishments. In this context the event hopes to contribute to facilitating new connections and structures based on mutual solidarity, while strengthening the resistance to the ongoing genocide.

This event is part of the ongoing Contemporary Conflict project by Framer Framed/UvA research fellows artist Winnie Herbstein and critic René Boer.

This event is in English. Admission is free.

Do you also think art should be free and accessible? Please consider supporting us with a donation when registering or by becoming a Framer Framed Friend: https://framerframed.nl/over-ons/friends/

This event may be photographed and filmed. Kindly let us know in advance if you prefer not to have your picture taken.

Framer Framed is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Amsterdam Fund for the Arts; Municipality of Amsterdam; and VriendenLoterij Fonds

Bricks and Mortar

On 26 November 2024 at Framer Framed, artist and lecturer Susanne Kriemann presents the latest work from her photographic project Lupin, fougère, genêt, centred on the effects of uranium mining. Building upon her previous project Pechblende, which comprises works on uranium mining in East Germany, Kriemann’s new work shifts focus to the Limousin region in France.

The title Lupin, fougère, genêt (French for ‘lupine, fern, gorse’) refers to three plants that thrive in Limousin, an area that was the centre of uranium extraction in France during the mid to late twentieth century. When mining activities ceased in the 1980s and 1990s, former mines were flooded, creating artificial lakes that dot the landscape. These waters and surrounding soils still carry traces of radioactive contamination.

The plants in and around these lakes have absorbed radioactive elements from the environment. They metabolise these contaminants and sometimes even flourish, but they also stand as living witnesses to the lingering toxic legacy of uranium extraction. In her talk, Susanne Kriemann will share her journey of artistic research in this overlooked nuclear landscape, focusing on how these plants act as bearers of radioactive memory and serve as subjects in her photographic work.

The talk is organised by curator and researcher Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou. It is part of, and supported by, the Environmental Humanities Centre at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The event is presented in partnership with Sonic Acts.

This event will be conducted in English. Admission is free.

Do you also think art should be free and accessible? Please consider supporting us with a donation when registering or by becoming a Framer Framed Friend: https://framerframed.nl/over-ons/friends/

This event may be photographed and filmed. Kindly let us know in advance if you prefer not to have your picture taken.

Framer Framed is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Amsterdam Fund for the Arts; Municipality of Amsterdam; and VriendenLoterij Fonds.

Artist Talk by Susanne Kriemann: Lupin, fougère, genêt

On 24 November at 14:00, Framer Framed invites you to join a tour of The Anarchist Citizenship: People Made of Stories. The exhibition examines how storytelling, visual culture, architecture and social life (re)shape citizenship in Somaliland, the Somali region and its diaspora. It’s the result of a collaborative research project initiated by Amal Alhaag and Nadine Stijns, along with Mustafa Saeed and various other artists, thinkers, architects, and activists based in Somaliland/Somalia and its diasporas. This walk through the exhibition gives insight into the thematics of the research project, and zooms into the works and stories that shaped it. It will be led by Amal Alhaag and Nadine Stijns and there will be space for conversation afterwards.

How can we avoid, refuse, or obscure the colonial gaze and create images challenging the status quo? What power dynamics are at play when capturing an image, and what does it take to create images that celebrate the multiplicity of identities and experiences that sustain cultures in times of ongoing crises? These sets of questions animate The Anarchist Citizenship: People Made of Stories exhibition by exploring the possibilities of visual narratives, imagination and self-determination. The Anarchist Citizenship: People Made of Stories is informed by both local and diasporic visual culture and offers an alternative approach to understanding, broadcasting to/with/from as well as engaging with the world. By placing the agency of the people of Somali(land) at the centre of the narrative, it attempts to challenge the Eurocentric, (neo)colonial and imperialist hierarchies of who gets to document, write, and think about whom.

For this iteration of The Anarchist Citizenship, we invite Somali (diasporic) artists navigating the waters of cultural production, histories, war traumas, (diasporic) lifeworlds and possible futures. This exhibition is a holding space for visual, sonic, and poetic stories taking the form of installations, film screenings, poetry programmes, photography, archives, workshops, textiles and dialogic spaces.

Within this context, the spatial design takes on a crucial role – the exhibition design serves as an intermediary between the different artistic positions. It mirrors the provocative visual language, vibrant cosmos, aesthetic sensibilities and storytelling that define contemporary Somaliland – zooming into specifically its capital city, Hargeisa. The presented works reflect the collective efforts of those who participate in its creation, weaving together stories, histories, and language to create visual narratives that celebrate the complexities of citizenship in this region.

Together with collaborators and contributors Kinsi Abdulleh, Rashid Ali, Abdullah Barre, Salman Dirir, Sumia Juxun, Elmi Original, Mustafa Saeed and The Somali Museum UK, Amal Alhaag and Nadine Stijns will present a special The Anarchist Citizenship programme. Consisting of a visual installation, a screening and public gatherings that explore the complexities and joys of Somali social life, memory work and the ways communities create alternative ways of being together as survival strategies.

Register here: https://framerframed.stager.co/web/tickets/111470288

This tour will be available in English and Dutch. Admission is free.

Do you also think art should be free and accessible? Please consider supporting us with a donation when registering or by becoming a Framer Framed Friend: https://framerframed.nl/over-ons/friends/

This event may be photographed and filmed. Kindly let us know in advance if you prefer not to have your picture taken.
Framer Framed is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Amsterdam Fund for the Arts; Municipality of Amsterdam; and VriendenLoterij Fonds.

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Karam Keuken

Symposium: Teacher as conceptual artist

Guided Tour – The Anarchist Citizenship: People Made of Stories

Documentary Screening: Retazos Móviles at Werkplaats Molenwijk

Book Launch: System of Systems, Managing Displacement Series

Fundraising event: Friends for Lebanon

Panel Discussion: Desire and Vision – Art, Philanthropy, and Decolonial Futures

Bricks and Mortar

Artist Talk by Susanne Kriemann: Lupin, fougère, genêt

Guided Tour – The Anarchist Citizenship: People Made of Stories

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