Zone2Source | Testing ground for art and ecology

The New Exotics A series of paper-cut installations juxtapose quintessentially Dutch imagery—such as canal houses, windmills, colonists, warships, and heraldic shields—with various invasive or introduced species—like tulips, Japanese knotweed, crayfish, and Chinese mitten crabs—blending them into stylized, two-dimensional compositions. This fusion gives rise to a new hybrid aesthetic—at once whimsical, uncanny, yet strangely harmonious—much like the way species continuously evolve and coexist through contact and displacement. The work further explores the new aesthetics emerging from cultural encounters between East and West. It draws a parallel with the influence of 18th-century Chinoiserie on Baroque and Rococo art, and how, in turn, that influence has boomeranged back to shape contemporary shanzhai (copycat) culture in China today. The work can be viewed during the show Hostile(lands) @zone2source #papercut #voc #chinoiserie #shanzhai #invasivespecies

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THANK YOU FOR JOINING 𝓞𝓻𝓲𝓰𝓲𝓷 𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼: 𝓡𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓡𝓲𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓫𝓮𝓰𝓲𝓷𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼, 𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓫𝓮𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼 Last Thursday, under the full moon, we gathered for an intimate dialogue at Het Glazen Huis, where we heard many different perspectives on Rhine origin stories. In a time when tensions are high, debate is heated, and opposite views are actively fed by those who it serves most, I am grateful that we have spent an evening in kinship, holding space for all different relations that the river braids together. Together we embraced the Rhine as a lively assemblage, foregrounding the river’s own agency in shaping histories, infrastructures, and everyday lives. I am looking forward to organising more evenings like these, where we can continue to meet, discuss, challenge, agree and engage in actual dialogue with each other. The Rhine needs more stewards!  Many thanks to our 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬: Rhine River, Anne Jesuina @anne_jesuina  Anneke van Veen, Gerard Litjens, Jelmer Teunissen @jelmerteunissen  , Maud van den Beuken @maud_vdbeuken  & Xandra van der Eijk @alexandra_franciska  Many thanks to Kristina Mau Hansen @kristina_mau_hansen  for bringing the sounds of the Rhine into our midst. To Julée Al-Bayaty de Ridder for her gentle guidance as moderator of the evening. @sachavandenhaak @lava_amsterdam for highlighting our publication. To Alice Smits for warmly welcoming me back at @zone2source and supporting us with installation and reception. An thanks to Thomas Lenden for documenting the whole evening.  Finally, my gratitude to everyone who joined, such a diversity in backgrounds and motivations, agreeing to experiment with the format together, staying late. You are co-authors in this ongoing, multi-voiced origin story of the Rhine 𓆟𓆟𓆟 The journey continues! If you want to become involved, please don’t hesitate to reach out.  -- This event is supported by @mondriaanfonds  and @zone2source #originstories #rhineriver #hydroformations #riverecology #becoming

𝓞𝓻𝓲𝓰𝓲𝓷 𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼: 𝓡𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓡𝓲𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓫𝓮𝓰𝓲𝓷𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼, 𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓫𝓮𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼  〰 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 〰  The second conversation of the evening is guided by expert guests:  𝓜𝓪𝓾𝓭 𝓿𝓪𝓷 𝓭𝓮𝓷 𝓑𝓮𝓾𝓴𝓮𝓷 maps and measures the porous spaces between the binaries of land and water. Working closely with scientists, engineers and policy-makers in the fields of physics, watermanagement and cartography, she poetically reflects on Western ways of knowing today’s environment in relation to embodied ways of knowing. For the past eight years, she has been specifically engaging with rivers, including the Rhine. 𝓙𝓮𝓵𝓶𝓮𝓻 𝓣𝓮𝓾𝓷𝓲𝓼𝓼𝓮𝓷 is an architectural and spatial designer and researcher. As a critical spatial thinker and maker, Jelmer’s approaches and perspectives are grounded in urban political ecology, abolition ecology, and bioregionalism. Their research focuses on socio-techno-environmental histories, struggles, and futures, with a current focus on socio-spatial and environmental justice within Dutch water management, landscape, and urban development. 𝓖𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓻𝓭 𝓛𝓲𝓽𝓳𝓮𝓷𝓼 co-founded Bureau Stroming BV and Stichting ARK in 1989, serving as director of Stroming until 2024. His work centres on rivers and deltas as living systems at the heart of society. He initiated and shaped landmark plans including Plan Levende Rivieren (1992) and Meegroeien met de Zee (1996), and developed concepts into concrete ecological redesigns of floodplains along the Rhine-Meuse estuary. Before that, he led nature development project the Blauwe Kamer, one of the first of its kind along the Rhine, and co-developed Uiterwaardpark Meinerswijk in Arnhem.  𓀦 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 2 April 18.30 - 21.30 𖡡 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 Glazen Huis, Zone2Source, Amstelpark ✎ Reserve your (free) spot! FULL Join our river-relations journey and become a co-author in the ongoing, multi-voiced origin stories of the Rhine! 𓆟 This event is supported by @mondriaanfonds  and @zone2source - #originstories #rhineriver #hydroformations #riverengeneering #rewilding

𝓞𝓻𝓲𝓰𝓲𝓷 𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼: 𝓡𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓡𝓲𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓫𝓮𝓰𝓲𝓷𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼, 𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓫𝓮𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼  LIMITED EXTRA TICKETS ☞ Link in bio  〰 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 〰  The first conversation of the evening is guided by three expert guests.  Dutch artist and researcher 𝓧𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓻𝓪 𝓿𝓪𝓷 𝓭𝓮𝓻 𝓔𝓲𝓳𝓴 @alexandra_franciska is the initiator of the long-term project Hydroformations, that focuses on the Rhine; meeting the river not as a resource to be managed, but as a living entity with its own rhythms and agency. They are interested in the fluid, networked actors that constitute waterbodies. Their work explores how site-specific actors embody ecological, cultural, and political worlds. and how these can be uncovered by engaging in artistic fieldwork, material experimentation and technological mediation. 𝓐𝓷𝓷𝓮 𝓙𝓮𝓼𝓾𝓲𝓷𝓪 (𝓣𝓸𝓫𝓲𝓪𝓼 𝓭𝓮 𝓐𝓷𝓭𝓻𝓪𝓭𝓮) @anne_jesuina is an interdisciplinary artist of Dutch and Afro-Brazilian descent. In addition, Anne  is a Speaker for the Living at Zoöp Amstelpark and facilitates coaching and workshops on the emotional dimension of social and environmental issues. Her work is in service of finding transforming possibilities, ways to tend to individual and collective wounds in order to find regenerative places of power. 𝓐𝓷𝓷𝓮𝓴𝓮 𝓿𝓪𝓷 𝓥𝓮𝓮𝓷 is a concerned resident of Dordrecht, actively community organising against Chemours PFAS/PFOA pollution and for environmental justice. In her professional life, Anneke develops programs aimed at restoring the quality of our living environment, bringing together key stakeholders and inform, inspire, and, above all, activate them to take better action. Her experience and network are in the green and blue domains, both at the administrative and political levels. 𓀦 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 2 April 18.30 - 21.30 𖡡 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 Glazen Huis, Zone2Source, Amstelpark ✎ Reserve your (free) spot via Eventbrite! Link in bio Join our river-relations journey and become a co-author in the ongoing, multi-voiced origins of the Rhine! 𓆟 This event is supported by @mondriaanfonds  and @zone2source -- #originstories #rhineriver #hydroformations #foreverchemicals #waterjustice

𝓞𝓻𝓲𝓰𝓲𝓷 𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼: 𝓡𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓡𝓲𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓫𝓮𝓰𝓲𝓷𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼, 𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓫𝓮𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼  Note: This event is fully reserved. We have decided to add a few extra spots! Be quick! LIMITED EXTRA TICKETS ☞ Link in bio  〰 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 〰  Our moderator for the evening is  𝓙𝓾𝓵𝓮𝓮  𝓐𝓵-𝓑𝓪𝔂𝓪𝓽𝔂  𝓭𝓮  𝓡𝓲𝓭𝓭𝓮𝓻. Julée is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam. Her project ‘Re-imagining Water through Marginalized Stories in the Neerlandophone Space’ explores contemporary art, literature, oral history and performance in the Netherlands and in former Dutch colonial spaces in Brazil and Indonesia. This project aims to pose resistance to the age-old Dutch narrative of a ‘battle against the water’ in order to make space for alternative encounters that reimagine ways of living with water. She is an associate member of the Posthumanism Research Institute at Brock University (Canada) and PhD member of the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis.  We are bringing the river with us into the space through a special performance with Rhine River underwater recordings by 𝓚𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓪 𝓜𝓪𝓾 𝓗𝓪𝓷𝓼𝓮𝓷 @kristina_mau_hansen . Kristina is a sound artist and field recordist with a background in cultural geography. Her work attunes to sound and listening practices as ways to explore the relations between people and place. Ranging from questioning how do we belong in a place through listening to how listening is a path to connect with more-than-human voices. Recent projects include facilitating field recording and listening walks along the Rhine, exploring ways to listen to the river.  𓀦 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 2 April 18.30 - 21.30 𖡡 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 Glazen Huis, Zone2Source, Amstelpark ✎ Reserve your (free) spot via Eventbrite! Link in bio Join our river-relations journey and become a co-author in the ongoing, multi-voiced origin stories of the Rhine! 𓆟 This event is supported by @mondriaanfonds  and @zone2source -- #originstories #rhineriver #hydroformations #riverecology #becoming

For two months, ‘Melted for Love’ moved through the city, exploring the sounds of home. We listened with open ears and full hearts, attuned to the sounds, songs, transmissions and resonances that hold us close to one another. 💓 This weekend is your last chance to experience the Biennial. Tickets and programme via the link in bio.

This Saturday from 16:00 to 21:00, spend an afternoon and evening with us at Zone2Source. Multidisciplinary event 'Regarding the Third Ear: VESSELS' – convened and curated by Xenia Benivolski – unfolds around the dual meaning of the term 'organology', which refers both to the study of musical instruments and to the study of organs. The programme starts with a discussion with artists Maria Chávez, Ragnhild May, Cara Tolmie, and Aram Lee, thinking how listening differently, and listening through instruments, might allow us to hear the world, and one another, anew. The talks are followed by live performances. Ragnhild May presents self-built instruments alongside her newly commissioned series of bronze ear sculptures, 'Coming Out the Ear'; Cara Tolmie reconnects a fragmented body through choreographic practice she calls 'internal singing'; Aram Lee's performance examines the relationship between the body and institutions. Closing the event, turntablist Maria Chávez sources damaged and discarded vinyl records and transforms them into sculptural sound, treating temporality as something continuously broken and reassembled. There will be snacks, drinks, talks, and live sound performances – that for us is a perfect Saturday. 💜 Tickets are available via the link in bio or in the TMSQR app. 📸: Pieter Kers

EVENT + PUBLICATION LAUNCH 𝓞𝓻𝓲𝓰𝓲𝓷 𝓢𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼: 𝓡𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓡𝓲𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓫𝓮𝓰𝓲𝓷𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼, 𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓫𝓮𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼 Join us for an intimate dialogue at Het Glazen Huis, where we will explore how Rhine river narratives and imaginaries can nourish or block more attentive ways of living with water, place, and each other. Resulting from the multi-year programme “Hydroformations”, originating at Zone2Source in 2024 and following the “Rhine River Lab: Meeting A River” that was held in October 2025, we embrace the Rhine as a lively assemblage, foregrounding the river’s own agency in shaping histories, infrastructures, and everyday lives. 𝓛𝓲𝓶𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓟𝓵𝓪𝓬𝓮𝓼: This event is free to attend. Due to limited space we ask you to get a reservation via Eventbrite. Link in BIO 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬: Rhine River, Anna Jesuina @anne_jesuina Anneke van Veen, Gerard Litjens, Jelmer Teunissen @jelmerteunissen , Maud van den Beuken @maud_vdbeuken & Xandra van der Eijk @alexandra_franciska 〰 With a sound performance by Kristina Mau Hansen @kristina_mau_hansen 〰 Moderated by Julée Al-Bayaty de Ridder 𝓛𝓪𝓾𝓷𝓬𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓸𝓷𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓹𝓾𝓫𝓵𝓲𝓬𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 The event also marks the launch of our online platform, which documents the Rhine river journey so far and serves as a living archive for current and future developments. This evolving online space gathers articles, field notes, poetic reflections, and methods that engage the Rhine as an entangled field of human and more-than-human agencies, resistances, and possibilities. 〰 Designed by LAVA @lava_amsterdam 〰 w/ contributions by Martine van Lubeek @martinevanlubeek , Julée Al-Bayaty de Ridder, Anna Bierler @annabierler 𓀦 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 2 April 18.30 - 21.30 𖡡 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 Glazen Huis, Zone2Source, Amstelpark ✎ Reserve your (free) spot via Eventbrite! Link in bio Join our river-relations journey and become a co-author in the ongoing, multi-voiced origin stories of the Rhine! 𓆟 This event is supported by @mondriaanfonds and @zone2source -- #originstories #rhineriver #hydroformations #riverecology #becoming

Week 7 arrives with 'Melted for Love' still moving through the city 🤍 Across Amsterdam, Sonic Acts Biennial's exhibitions, listening sessions, and performances continue to unfold. This week's programme brings tours, concerts, and gatherings that reflect on memory, technology, and collective care. Tue 18 Mar ♥ Exhibition Tour at Arti et Amicitiae led by Angeliki Tzortzakaki. Move through the exhibition together while discussing works by Nour Shantout, Noor Abed, Dominique White, Ameneh Solati, HUNITI GOLDOX, and Arjuna Neuman. Thu 19 Mar ♥ 'Heart Rests Twice' Concert 4 at murmur with Flavia Dzodan, Sondi, and Leslie García. Through algorithmic sound, AV performance, and archival fragments, the artists explore AI, hidden infrastructures, and speculative techno-futures. Sat 21 Mar ♥ 'Regarding the Third Ear: VESSELS' at Zone2Source, curated by Xenia Benivolski. Live performances and discussions with Maria Chávez, Cara Tolmie, Aram Lee, and Ragnhild May explore resonances between bodily, mechanical, and architectural forms of listening. Sun 22 Mar ♥ 'A Medium Speaks to You' at Rozenstraat. In this participatory listening session and performative reading, Eliana Otta invites audiences into a collective ritual of voice, song, and reflection. Exhibitions at W139, Arti et Amicitiae, and Rozenstraat remain open until the end of the month. Full timetable and tickets via the link in bio or in the TMSQR app.

Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 continues: 'Melted for Love' moves further through the city with listening sessions, performances, and workshops that reflect on voice, memory, and collective attention.🩵 Tue 11 Mar ♥ 'Listening Circle' with Nancy Mounir and ghenwa (noiré) abou fayad at Salon de IJzerstaven. Through shared listening and conversation, the artists explore voice as inheritance: a practice carried across generations, landscapes, and musical traditions. Tue 11 Mar ♥ 'Exhibition Tour' at Rozenstraat. Move slowly through the exhibition together while discussing works by Eglė Budvytytė, Eliana Otta, Christian Nyampeta & Kivu Ruhorahoza, and Nikolay Karabinovych. Thu 12 Mar ♥ 'Heart Rests Twice', Concert 3 at murmur with Kween, Nancy Mounir, and Virus2020. Through archival recordings, electroacoustic composition, and hybrid instruments, the artists reflect on home as something carried through memory and sound. Fri 13 Mar ♥ 'Gesture and Screech' concert at OCCII. Jiyoung Wi & Tzu Ni, Scott Gordon, Finlay Shakespeare, Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, and Petronn Sphene explore the tensions between gesture, rhythm, and signal through distorted pulses and mechanical arrangements. Fri 13 Mar ♥ 'Public Attention': a participatory, sound-based workshop at night with Roman Tkachenko at Muziekgebouw. Drawing on protest chants, call-and-response, and rhythmic action, participants experiment with sound as a tool for collective presence and resistance. Throughout the week, exhibitions at W139, Arti et Amicitiae, Rozenstraat, and Framer Framed remain open, alongside the last 'Listening Room' sessions at Zone2Source. 🌀 Full timetable and tickets via the link in bio or in the TMSQR app.

“Now more than ever, embracing the dark challenges our habitual rhythms and thresholds of comfort.” Gather with us in Amsterdam on Saturday evening 28 March for ‘With Darkness: A (Slow) Listening Session,’ led by artist Christine Hvidt (@c.hvidt ) and convened in collaboration with @zone2source and @valiz_books_projects In her contribution to #SlowTechnologyReader, Christine approaches Darkness as a technology — where ‘Darkness’ (with a capital ‘D’) is understood as an entity, an ally, and a portal to other dimensions of experience. Her beautifully-crafted text oscillates between narrating personal encounters in the dark, offering theoretical reflections inspired by the likes of Simone Weil and Édouard Glissant, and probing the role of Darkness in ancient tradition. For this multidimensional artist, listening is an act of internal and external attention, a gesture of lending somatic and intuitive awareness to the places we attend to, and a bid to connect with worlds beyond. On the 28th of March, we venture into the Amstelpark after darkness has fallen, feeling into invitations from beings and energies that make themselves known only under the cover of night. These may be sounds that become audible when the city has quieted down or the stirrings of #nocturnal creatures, but also may be expressions of the participant’s own internal #shadow landscape that often speaks louder when darkness sets in. The session equally is inspired by ancient Norse #shamanic traditions for seeking advice or #guidance from spirits during the dark hours — especially the Sitting ritual (in Danish, ‘udesidning’). This (Slow) listening session encourages participants to open up to whatever may reveal itself in and through Darkness. It is an opportunity to give attention and time to ourselves, to attune to world(s) that normally are obscured—whether by the light of day or by the pace and upheavals of contemporary life. >>> Space is limited. RSVP to [email protected] >>> More info at /en/event/with-darkness/ or via link in our bio - Slow Technology Reader: A Tool for Shaping Divergent Futures (2025) is published by Valiz with design by @haller_brun