Ilja Schamle

our public program for the coming month at @w139amsterdam , in which we experiment with fabulating healing and health through herbalism. everyone is welcome to join us at different moments in the process. you can find the registration link in our bios. 2 May + 16 May (15:00-17:30) Crip Healers Reading Group 6 May (13:30-17:30 Walk-ins welcome) Cripothecary: Herb Processing and Solidarity Workshop 10 May (13:00-16:00) Participatory Performance: Urban Healing Fabulation 20 May (13:00-15:00) Tasting Warmoesstraat 23 May (17:00-20:00) Crippissage: A Healthy Gathering *the reading groups will be held in the main exhibition space which is wheelchair accessible. **our para-siting space is located on the first floor which can only be reached via a set of stairs. if visiting any of our public program and you have any access needs, please let us know so we may try to accommodate best within our capacity.

Para-siting: Cripping Warmoesstraat 𓆓 We are happy to announce the first parasites of 2026 with Ilja Schamlé and Pırıltı Onukar! 𝘾𝙧𝙞𝙥𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙒𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙤𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙖𝙩 is an inquiry into crip* embodiment in Amsterdam through herbalist practices and solidarity networks. Working with the seasonality and cartography of plants, fungi, and bacteria that persist in the city, they aim to create a space where being crip* can coexist with healing. During their time at W139, they will build a makeshift lab-kitchen, (role)play with herbalist traditions, trickster histories, and para-sitic relations. In the lab-kitchen at W139, they will question and twist the notion of healing through shared practices, paying homage to the witches that were put on trial at the Dam square, and search for new entry points into healing through shared practices. Through weekly public encounters they invite visitors to reflect on health, crip theory, herbalism and witchcraft through different formats such as reading groups, workshops and walking tours. More info on the public programme soon! Link in bio for more info 🔗

We celebrate the start of this dazzling journey together with PRE-GLOW - the official Opening Ceremony of OBSESSED! at San Francisco Bar (@sfamsterdam ). The Glow-Up begins here – with curiosity, and awareness. Cemre Kara leads a participatory performance [dis]comfort food, DJ Amandla sets the tone, while Ilja Schamle’s sensory bites reveal subtle connections between bodies, ecosystems and the poetry of flavour. We still have a few spots left, so drop by and celebrate with us. RSVP link in bio <3 — Cemre Kara is a graduate of the ArtScience Bachelor’s programme at KABK in the Hague, Netherlands in 2021. Her artistic practice spans various mediums, including live performances, sensory experiences, and food design. For PRE-GLOW, Cemre will perform an adapted version of her artistic research project, [dis]comfort food, a participatory performance dinner. Visitors are invited to use experimental dining utensils - what are ‘accepted’ table manners? Ilja Schamle is a chef and artist based in Amsterdam. Her work moves between performance, material research and communal eating, exploring how food can reveal the relationships between bodies, ecosystems and economies. Trained at the Design Academy Eindhoven, she approaches cooking as both a medium and method - a way to question systems of consumption through sensory experience. Amandla is a DJ from Amsterdam with Surinamese and French roots who is known for her versatile and eclectic style. Her music blends genres like house, electro, and techno with influences from Chicago House and Detroit-inspired synth melodies, creating a “Ghetto Elevator” sound that is both sharp and emotive. She has performed at various events, from Amsterdam’s underground scene to fashion events, and is a resident at Yellow House Amsterdam #OBSESSED2025 #GlowUp #JewelleryFestival #ContemporaryJewellery . . . . Obsessed! Jewellery Festival is supported by Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie @stimuleringsfonds , Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst @afk020 , and Cultuurfonds @cultuurfonds , with thanks to Design Fonds.

🌲To see the Forest for the Pines is happening tomorrow Thursday, June 26 2025 from 12:00 till 14:00 in SPEL, Nicosia - join us! ~ To See the Forest for the Pines invites the audience into an immersive experience where forest becomes a witness within geopolitical shifts. Imperial infrastructures echo in the sound of a lucid dream leaking through the walls. Once a warehouse, SPEL turns again into a site for trade and exchange: histories that haunt the present resurface. While pine trees are planted, olive trees get uprooted. Monocultures replace rich vegetation and bring ecosystems out of balance, causing forest fires and human-made catastrophes. From Lithuania to Ukraine, over Cyprus to Palestine: The transformation of landscape is a colonial tool to control and eradicate indigenous life. Forest Inscriptions has studied visible and invisible modes of extractivism, and the role of science in the production and destruction of knowledge. In the warm afternoon in Nicosia, the group brings their study into metabolic relations and leaking imaginations. Collaborative and site-specific research supports a collective storytelling that asks: What does the forest hide? Student participants: Dimitris Chimonas, Erik Peters, Foad Alijani, Ilja Schamle, Magdalena Beliavska, Nanna Stigsdatter Mathiassen, Sanna Hirvonen, Sophie Dandanell, Stellar Meris. @dimitrischimonas @oneirosophy @iljaschamle @e_ptrs @nanna.giveitup @foadalijani @stellar__meris @aamuolento @sophie.dandanell Tutor participants: Egija Inzule, Jonas Zukauskas, Jurga Daubaraite, guests during study year: Maksym Netsvetov (remote), Léa Perraudin, Yuliia Prokopuk (remote), Oleksiy Radynski (remote), Iva Resetar, Stelios Kallinikou, Stavros Papavassiliou, Svitlana Lavrenchuk, Raimundas Malasauskas. @jurgadau @zuka.jonas @oleksiy.radynski @stelioskallinikou @svitlana.lavrenchuk @raimundas_malasauskas Special thanks for: Elena Savvidou for carving the spoons, Irini Khenkin for lending us the sewing machine. To see the Forest for the Pines is realized through the ongoing Friendship, conversation and collaboration between the Dutch Art Institute and Neringa Forest Architecture @dutchartinstitute

I spend the last winter finishing my essay, called ‘digesting the self’. I have filled it with personal fictions and bodily inscriptions. I entered the cut of my intestines and emerge through its newly grown suction cups, feeling out the rest of my body from the inside out. I deal with the wound as a space you can enter, and that is where I found that absence can be felt. Anyways, i am very thankful that @soapboxjournal , a journal for cultural analysis, had the patiences to deal with these fictions and published them in their sixth issue: ‘On the Uses of Absence’. It looks so beautiful (and so professional…). There is a launch on the 11th of June at de Nieuwe Anita and I will be reading. Tnx to @robin.vanl and @miatamme to be my supportive readers And Soapbox for editting Designers: @ruim_  @ppablo._ Printed by @wilco_artbooks This book was made possible with the generous contribution of NICA (Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis). Image credit to the designers @ruim_  @ppablo._

and oh yes... i've been having early thoughts on community (herb)gardens and their relation to revolutions, and how herb gardens are mostly cool if they deal with land ownership or any form of commoning. otherwise they can end up in forms of gentrification that are so harmful and violent, they become the counterrevolution through for example green gentrification. anyways, just early thoughts, but if you want to think through this together, please reach out. especially now, with the rise of foraging and herbalist knowledge in new age spaces, it feels relevant to think about both the effects of them in depoliticized contexts and as place of survival for communities and crip community in particular. bye x 1: late-to-the-pink face picking amanita with @apoplastic_space 2: happy amanita basket in the forest @xenomyrmex 3: @vaim_sarv 's aunt Malle teaches us to make herbal salve during Socialist Herbalism 4: karl smelling hemp 5: herb shots

it’s been a while since i spent a few months in @massiaofficinale . and yes, i have never done this reporting-insta-address but whatever: i loved how the building held all these traces of the community harvesting long after they left. the pumpkins took a seat at the table when few of us stayed for the snow to come. i also love that i got heated by finances and annoying bookkeepers, pluming, moving around piano’s in the village, tire swaps by fascist car mechanics, mold outbreaks, endless fruits that make you feel like you are working for them, freezers full, sinks overflowing, fermentations exploding. it was great sharing this concierge role with many. unfortunately i did not have the impressive key chain to jingle and tell you that i am near. but gosh~~ in that chaos i def was one. i also learned again that when you can cook together, you can organize. (which is our greatest weapon!) and somehow in being part fixer, part host, part listener, part talker, part magician, i found a kind of access to land and community i never thought possible. thank you to everyone who’s made that real. 1: pumpkin and watermelon sitting at the table for months 2: hands picking bear berry leaves for herb tabac 3: mugwort drying and koriander seed picking left unattended 4: flour mill milling 5: table full of preserving projects during gut festival 6: @miatamme getting that hemp fiber

Upcoming Sunday we celebrate the launch of the publication EntroPies. The book is a continuation of a series of cookery performances by Pollyanna Moss, Ilja Schamlé and Noa Jansma, during which they asked visitors for their applepie recipe and executed them on the spot. Through the recipes stories are shared around national heritage, domestic labor and recipe sharing. The book bundles these recipes alongside with contributions of various artists reflecting on the applepie. Come by for a piece of applepie, hot toddies, live reading sessions and the zine! 15:00 till 17:00 16:00 reading session @warmoesstraat67 Project initiated by @noajansma @iljaschamle @polly_moss with contributions by @noam_yr @kiriacademy @orlando.lovell @dontpanikitsveganik

the past weeks i have been steaming and heating up á diner together with the lovely @va_giena @florisburgers @bloemebrm this friday @piet_hein_eek EEN DINER- the conventions of dining. this friday we pore over “the table” as a place where material interactions take place to make standarts crumble. EEN DINER - de conventies van dineren. Een lange tafel waar bestaande gebruiken worden bevraagd en waar smaak dubbele betekenis krijgt.

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what’s wrong with my roses? @clarrrrise took me with into the world of Dutch rose cultivation. The image from life and death and beyond; the one of a flower; the petals might fall but the thorns remain