Oriana Ikomo

From 20 June to 17 August, MAISON the FAUX presents THE TAIL, a performance installation that draws on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid to explore themes of transformation, and the sacrifices that are made in pursuit of one’s true identity. The work is developed in close collaboration with artists Diamanda Dramm, Dae Uk Kim, Anto López Espinosa, Oriana Ikomo, Bien De Moor and Luthfi Darwis.

THE TAIL challenges and expands the archetype of the mermaid to confront the complexities of selfhood and the desire for autonomy. It engages with and recontextualises the queer subtext woven through decades of reinterpretations of the mermaid figure over time, highlighting its potential as a symbol of personal transformation and self-empowerment.

Blending music, fashion, performance, scenography, video and visual art, THE TAIL creates an immersive, multi-disciplinary experience. Audiences are invited to become part of the narrative through live activations of its scenography. In collaboration with Framer Framed, a public programme will further create opportunities for communities to engage with, and reinterpret, its ideas.

THE TAIL begins with two live viewings at the Machinefabriek, home of NITE and Club Guy & Roni in Groningen, on 10 & 12 June, before traveling to Framer Framed in Amsterdam from 20 June to 17 August, including thirteen live performances.

MAISON the FAUX is ‘a creative studio posing as a grand couture fashion house’, investigating new forms of fashion through experience, interaction and performativity.

Opening
Register here for the opening on 20 June from 18:00 to 21:00.

Additional performances will take place on 25, 26, 27 and 28 June, and 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11 and 12 July. Sign up here: https://framerframed.stager.co/web/tickets

Address: Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71, 1093 KS, Amsterdam

The project is co-commissioned by Framer Framed and NITE, and co-produced by Framer Framed, NITE, and This is Not an Office.

Supported by: Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Amsterdam Fund for the Arts; Municipality of Amsterdam; VriendenLoterij Fonds; het Cultuurfonds and Performing Arts Fund NL.

Photographer: Dion Bal
Light assistant: Eugene Berkovski
Talent: Adama
Make-up artist: Marly van den Bosch
Hair stylist: Eldrigde Mullenhof

Shane Koppers

Framer Framed

THE TAIL by MAISON the FAUX

From 20 June to 17 August, MAISON the FAUX presents THE TAIL, a performance installation that draws on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid to explore themes of transformation, and the sacrifices that are made in pursuit of one’s true identity. The work is developed in close collaboration with artists Diamanda Dramm, Dae Uk Kim, Anto López Espinosa, Oriana Ikomo, Bien De Moor and Luthfi Darwis.


Live Performance 9 July: THE TAIL by MAISON the FAUX

Bombari op safari! Woensdag 13 juli vieren we het einde van het schooljaar met een mooi paradefeest op het grote schoolplein tussen de Bonkelaar en de Krijtmolen. Vanaf 14:00 maken we een feestje op het schoolplein en om 14:30 lopen door de wijk. We sluiten de Parade af bij Werkplaats Molenwijk, waar we doorfeesten met limonade en iets lekkers en je met het penalty schieten knallend de vakantie in kan. Haal je beste voetbalkwaliteiten uit de kast, want er vallen mooie prijzen te winnen. We gaan dansend en zingend de vakantie tegemoet! Feest je mee?

Parade Molenwijk

Dancehall Divas Then and Now: Framing the Caribbean Feminist Narrative, hosted on 17 July at Framer Framed, explores the gendered dynamics of Dancehall culture through performance, discussion, and visual material. It's initiated by Timothy Paul. With his group Caribbean Queer Salon, he aims to provide a warm and welcoming environment for queer migrants of color.

Dancehall Divas Then and Now: Framing the Caribbean Feminist Narrative

Op 26 september ben je van harte welkom bij Kijkje in de Keuken bij Werkplaats Molenwijk. Elke drie maanden verzorgt buurtcatering Karam Keuken een gratis driegangendiner voor de wijk. Terwijl de buurtkoks hun culinaire kunsten oefenen, delen buurtbewoners van het wekelijkse Vrij Atelier hun schilder- en woordkunst tijdens een tentoonstelling.

Al acht keer eerder kookte Karam Keuken een heerlijk driegangendiner voor de buurt. Vrijdag 26 september wordt de negende keer dat Ghada, Enaam, Latifa en chef Sonya hun restaurant in actie zetten. Verschillende Marokkaanse en Syrische gerechten worden geserveerd, denk aan harira soep, pastilla’s, couscous en chebakia.

Vanaf 17.00 uur is iedereen welkom om aan te schuiven. Op de avond zelf wordt ook de tentoonstelling van Vrij Atelier geopend. Op initiatief van buurtbewoner Janneke werden de afgelopen drie maanden elke maandagmiddag de schildersezels opgetuigd en konden buurtbewoners samen schilderen. De tentoonstelling biedt een inkijk in de creativiteit van de wijk en toont de verschillende schilderijen die zijn gemaakt.

Kijkje in de Keuken in Werkplaats Molenwijk

The HüzünProject is a collaboration between Nihat Karataşlı and Inez Piso. They take Hüzün, a Turkish word for an emotion known for its untranslatability, as the starting point for this project supported by Koc University and Mondriaan Fund. Instead of assuming what a dictionary states, their project questions the limits of language, translation and understanding in an ongoing expedition trying to find the meaning of a single word.

Taking Turkish literature as its starting point, they create an archive that aims to collect video interviews from translators, authors, linguists, psychologists among many other individuals that reflect upon Hüzün. These interviews form the base for an Artificial Intelligence machine that tries to learn the meaning of this ungraspable word. This expedition aims to exceed the limits of the humane and asks if a machine can share the same emotions with humans.

You are invited to think with them about the meaning of hüzün as an emotion with plural meanings, not a singular one, that goes beyond language, beyond that what a five letter word could ever cover.

Partner event: Read My World - HüzünProject

Join us for the final presentation of the Youth Leadership & Resilience youth project. A special evening where the project’s participants will take us on a critical journey to collectively reflect on their lives and the systems around us. On Friday 7 July from 18:00 – 21:00, the participants will host a programme with games, music, theatre, drinks and food.

Framer Framed and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Institute for Societal Resilience) organised the youth project Youth Leadership & Resilience in collaboration with ASKV, Giving Back Projects, Dreamers NL and Kenniscentrum Ongelijkheid Amsterdam. Within the project, we organised workshops with and for young people (without proper residence permits) as well as a final product focusing on the stories of the participants.

During the Youth Leadership & Resilience project, the participants had the opportunity to participate in workshops and to give workshops themselves. Within all workshops the focus was on creative storytelling, in which spoken word, videography, writing, dance and music played a role. Together, they reflected on the resilience, dreams, ambitions, talents, knowledge, leadership, identities, experiences and stories of these young people.

An integral part of Youth Leadership & Resilience is the concluding final presentation, in which, once again, storytelling is the guiding thread. With their own perspective and with the knowledge gained in the workshops, the young people will take visitors into their stories during an evening at Framer Framed.

Youth Leadership & Resilience is part of the Amsterdam – All Inclusive research programme of the Kenniscentrum Ongelijkheid. In collaboration with research and social partners, the multi-year programme focuses on research into how institutions contribute to inequality in the city. In the Youth Leadership & Resilience project, Framer Framed joined forces as a social partner with research partner the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Institute for Societal Resilience).

A collaboration between Framer Framed, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Institute for Societal Resilience), ASKV, Giving Back Projects, Kenniscentrum Ongelijkheid Amsterdam, Dreamers NL.

Youth Leadership & Resilience

Live Performance 5 July: THE TAIL by MAISON the FAUX

LGBTQ Humans of the Netherlands and Humans of Film Festival organise the one-day conference Queer & Price: Queering the Fair Practice Code. It examines the significance of equitable compensation within queer and transgender communities, with a particular focus on marginalised voices.

Queer & Price: Queering the Fair Practice Code

Live Performance 4 July: THE TAIL by MAISON the FAUX

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Maggie

Christie

Eric

Anna

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Framer Framed is pleased to announce a new chapter of the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC), presented by Serpentine Galleries in London entitled The British East India Company on Trial. In addition to public hearings prosecuting the colonial and climate crimes of the British Crown and the East India Company, an installation with selected materials from the tribunals in combination will be on show at Ambika P3 from 5 to 24 April 2025.

Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes: The British East India Company on Trial

The CICC is a project by Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal that stages public hearings in immersive installations functioning as a court, to prosecute intergenerational climate crimes committed by states and corporations acting together. These hearings address crimes of the past, present and future, reflecting the intergenerational impacts of climate crimes on ecologies and communities.

This newly commissioned chapter of the CICC consists of a specially appointed court constructed within the former concrete hall of Ambika P3 in London. It was in London that the East India Company was founded in 1600, and where the corporate entity would subsequently shape the city in its own interests and image. The court will interrogate witnesses regarding the crimes committed by the British East India Company, highlighting the interconnectedness of colonial and climate crimes that continue to shape our devastating present and future.

Non-human agents will act as evidence and witnesses in the court, in this case in the form of plants that played a pivotal role in the colonial and industrial projects of the British Crown and the East India Company. The audience present will have the task to act as public jury members.

Putting the British East India Company on trial, 425 years after its founding and 168 years after its dissolution in 1857, expands notions of intergenerational justice. It raises questions about reparations for crimes that transcend generations and examines how dissolved entities, like the EIC, endure as legal, institutional, and ideological frameworks for extractive capitalism and imperialism, perpetuating ecological collapse.

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Exhibition: CICC London – The British East India Company on Trial

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