Four poems and a fragment (The Hoopoe) by the late Mahmoud Darwish. May the strength of his voice and the enduring relevance of his plight challenge the prevailing recency bias that obscures over half a century of Palestinian resistance. Tomorrow is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, established in 1977 (!!!) There will be a National Walkout (12:00) and a sit-in organized at Amsterdam Central (20:00). Leave work. Leave university. I hope to see you there 🍉
I still remember @yolandezolazolivanderheide ‘s excitement after receiving a blurry TMS image of Banner and Flag almost two years ago. Today there was an article in the local newspaper, so I wrote the b-side nerd entry!
-Karel Appel, Between Banner and Flag, 1987 installed by a.o. mighty @michaelagroeneveld
-Willem van de Velde A Small Dutch Vessel close-hauled in a Strong Breeze, 1672
-Min Tanaka by Itaru Hirama
All in the context our ever growing Collection as Cosmos (opening June 06! at @vanabbemuseum ), and particularly Public Time, the exhibition’s research thread inspired by the practice of @i_a_okon
Fade out a text by Abril Cisneros Ramírez further contextualizes the exhibition by providing a non-linear viewpoint from which to enter the works.
FADE OUT brings together three artists, Arthur Cordier, María José Crespo and Amir Torres Darwich, whose works explore traces left behind in a world saturated by media and consumer culture: fragments of thought, memory, and materiality, including a text by Abril Cisneros Ramírez.
FADE OUT is on view until February 13. Mon-Fri 12–18:00. Curated by Jesse Siegel in collaboration with BURO_ASAP.
#casstl #antwerpart @antwerpart@sqwazizal@stephaneschraenen@studioluctuymans@emejcrespo@arthurcordierarthur@amir.torres.d@jesse_siegel@buro_asap@fieryapril
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The Day it Rains Jellyfish Reading with Alonso Cedillo and Abril Cisneros
▫️November 30, 16.00 - 17.00 at @vanabbehuis
Abril Cisneros Ramírez is a curator and writer from Mexico City, currently working as Assistant Curator at the @vanabbemuseum , Eindhoven. Her practice often focuses on how cultural production shapes what can be seen, said, asked, or known within dominant frameworks of interpretation and institutional capture. Abril holds a BA in Art History from Leiden University and a MA in Curating from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is also a member of the project space The Balcony in The Hague, where she co-curated eight exhibitions over the past two years.
▪️The event is part of The Day it Rains Jellyfish annual program.
@fieryapril | @alonso.cedillo
Register to join us via the linkinbio.
it’s been one year and I’ve yet to pick up my copy…. but I hear they’re sold out so here’s a belated thank you to @mela_miekus and @yasmineiam for inviting me to write a short story for Notes on Flags, a beautiful 68-page zine designed by @dwadstrm and with contributions by Sara V, Myriam Amri, Julia Nowicka, Omar Khlif, Yasmine Ben Abdessalem, Mela Miekus, Marine Thavot, Mita Medri, Tom Polleau, and yours truly
it’s been two weeks since I got my master’s degree and the occasion was bursting with flowers — two of them being my father making it to the Netherlands for the first time despite our Anguish August, and my mom writing me a letter that made me cry
thank you, thank you, thank you to my many teachers in and outside (especially outside) university; always patient and generous
and of course, muchísimas gracias to @fundacionbotin for providing the material conditions without which (quite regrettably) graduate education remains a privilege
