22 mei 20:00 | doors open 19:30 | tickets from € 10,00 | language: English |
Forsaken in the wilderness, talking to God when God feels absent, floating directionless in open seas, 'to she who treads water' offers a score that wails, grieves, rages, yearns and loves.
A Perdu Avond with Ada Maricia Patterson, Yael Davids, and M. Maria Walhout , who call and respond through poetry, voice, sound, music and movement.
Hosts: Marija Cetinić & Jimena Casas.
More info: link in bio.
Poster design: @alix.chauvet & @ada_patterson_@ada_patterson_@mmariawalhout@jimena999999999999@em_sea__
💫✨ working on an upcoming performance around my poetry
thankfully returning to @rijksakademie for rehearsals
video mostly unrelated, just me playing around a bit
🔗 LINK IN BIO 💖
Hi Sweeties 💖
Me and my body need your help 🙏
I’m here to ask you for your support in funding my next body feminisation surgery, happening in Paris, France, in early October 2026.
Link and more info in bio
Please donate and share with friends, family, networks
Love,
Ada xx
@fertile_ruins_amsterdam_ is proud to present @ada_patterson_ for our 9th Edition at @lolalieven
Ada Maricia Patterson is an artist, writer and educator based between Barbados, London and Amsterdam. She works with drawing, masquerade, music, performance, poetry, textiles and video, considering the connections between storytelling, transformation, crisis, grief, rage, disappearance, discretion, self-defence and survival. She is an alumna resident artist of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam
Thrilled to be back at @lolalieven for @fertile_ruins_amsterdam_ 9th Edition raising money for an amazing community project @elsufra
Fertile ruins + @mimefabriek invite you to performances by @tonikritzer & @rawany_3ishq Raoni Muzho Saleh & @ada_patterson_
March 13
@ Lola Lieven
Rodenrijsstraat 43, 1062 JD Amsterdam
Doors @ 8pm
Show @ 8:30pm
Produced & curated by @eellzzss@rrrrrrri7a@bkcubcake Jacob @mimefabriek
Masks are mandatory for this event for community accessibility.
Please Covid test (rapid) before coming. We will have masks and some test available on site. We will also have an air filter as well.
#queer #queerart #queerperformance #amsterdamart #amsterdamqueerart
Now on view: “Beyond Representation,” the second edition of our performance and video series presented in the Auditorium and on PAMMTV.
Explore the full series online at pamm.tv
This year’s selection examines the body in public space, foregrounding the vital role Caribbean artists play in shaping contemporary performance. In a moment marked by shifting policies and heightened conversations around migration and belonging, these works explore displacement, care, confrontation, and resilience through embodied presence.
Featuring works by David Pérez Karmadavis, Miguel Braceli, Tania Bruguera, Ada M. Patterson, Nibia Pastrana, and Zachary Fabri, Beyond Representation invites viewers to consider how performance can illuminate our political realities while imagining new forms of solidarity and hope.
Watch the series now on PAMMTV through the link in bio.
“the first symptom is refusal” by Ada Maricia Patterson depicts a starfish with a severed leg hanging from a fishhook, barely connected to its body by a long, beaded tendon. Most starfish can regenerate damaged or lost parts of themselves; they even shed arms as a defence mechanism. However, several starfish are dying out due to the overlapping effects of the climate crisis, which make regeneration impossible. In an attempt to survive, they sever their limbs in the hope of regeneration, but it doesn’t work. This work is not only a commentary on climate change, but also a metaphor for the social crisis that is occurring in our human world: the survival strategies of others who are vulnerable, such as communities of trans people across the world.
Following the disaster that hurricane Dorian brought to the Caribbean in 2019, Patterson started using kangas, a practice she learned through her mother. The kanga is a garment that wraps around the head, shoulders, or waist, which is popular in East Africa. Each kanga contains a saying and is gifted at times of celebration or mourning. The Kanga for the Present series is based on conversations with loved ones who are affected by the climate crisis, capturing the sorrow and joy of changing bodies in a changing world. The way in which minds and bodies wrap themselves in kanga is similar to how a hurricane spirals around its centre and how a wave rolls in and around itself.
Zondag 16 november staat het TextielMuseum in het teken van queerness, identiteit en textiel 🌈
Tijdens Museumgasten: Haus of Fibre x Qult brengen we kunst, community en gesprek samen — precies in het hart van Transgender Awareness Week 🏳️⚧️
🎤 En jij kunt meedoen!
We zoeken mensen die hun werk, verhaal of visie willen delen tijdens onze open mic.
Je krijgt een aantal minuten om het podium te pakken — poëzie, performance, muziek, tekst of iets anders: alles mag. Meld je aan via de link in onze bio!
✨ Met bijdragen van:
Prins de Vos, Nixie van Laere, Ada Maricia Patterson én Wild Ones
📅 16 november 2025, 13:45 – 16:00
📍 TextielMuseum Tilburg
🎟 € 10 (incl. drankje, excl. entree museum)
👉 Meld je aan via de open call – link in bio
👀 Sprekers worden later verder uitgelicht, dus stay tuned!
🪝 This work could’ve been the end of me 😭
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might this dead end be liveable
2023-2024
Mixed yarns (merino wool, lurex, elirex, angel, dream, sidero, monofilament, mohair, elastic), ringed offset fishing hooks, mixed beads (glass, wood, ceramic, plastic, tourmaline, obsidian), cotton and polyester thread, digital video, audio
Flatbed knitting and embroidery, partly produced in the TextielLab with the technical support of Damien Semerdjian
embroidered with @cyxceline , @_solame_ , @verrari_moerkens , @wat3rmaid , @koesstaassen , and @newborin_
Thank you @adelheid_smit for your ongoing belief in and support of my work
Collection TextielMuseum
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Now showing at Haus of Fibre at @textielmuseum Tilburg open until 15 March 2026
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Slides 1-7 photos by Josefina Eikenaar @textielmuseum
Slide 8 some of my notes reflecting on the work
Slide 9 video of the work
🗑️ summer dump 🚮
made a new painting
finished @rijksakademie
turned 31
pretended to be a dj
went to iceland london fuerteventura
got a new studio
hung out with all my sisters (blood and chosen)
worshiped the sun
and some other stuff I think 🤷♀️
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@rijksakademie turned me into a painter 👩🎨🚩
Come see some of my new works on silk that I made between last summer and this spring (or for the dolls reading, the paintings I made between boob jobs) 🤭
My bosom is ever flowing with grace, ever heaving with rage; my works continue to follow this strange headless woman character brandishing a hammer. I have been thinking about her in relation to Antoinette, a character first imagined through Charlotte Brönte’s “Jane Eyre” and later humanised by Jean Rhys’ “Wide Sargasso Sea”. She is a woman made voiceless, a woman made illegible and illegitimate; a woman who practised non-disclosure and was punished and ruined for it.
She is also a woman who uses fire to make herself heard.
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come visit @rijksakademie open studios, opening tonight, public open days 22-25 May
I’ll be reading new poetry tonight at 19.40; and twice a day during public days at 14.15 and at 18.00
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thank you everyone who supported me throughout these two years, thank you to my Amsterdam lovelies who helped me feel at home and kept me company during recovery, thank you to the Rijksakademie advisors who challenged me to grow and the workshop technicians who helped the work shine, thank you to my gallery @copperfield_london , thank you to my friends and family in Barbados who help me to remember who I am and where I come from, thank you to my sisters biological and chosen @syanne_p and @mmariawalhout for their unconditional love and support, thank you to my partner @koesstaassen who reminds me I am deeply loved in an often loveless world, thank you to my fellow residents between 2023-2025 who made the work never feel lonely. Love you all bad.
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Independent New York, 8-11 May
Copperfield will present work by Ada Patterson, marking her New York solo debut. For Independent, Ada Patterson is expanding the breadth of her new paintings on silk, which were first made for the 2024 Prospect New Orleans triennial. In these paintings, Patterson carries aspects of her Barbadian heritage into her response to the current state of the world as she tries to hold the weight of those emotions.
Spring Studios, Tribeca, NYC.
Thanks to @matthewhiggs2015 and Elizabeth Dee.
Pictured here: it might bear her up, 2025. Acid dye, India ink on pongee silk. @ada_patterson_
