The Making of Justice by Sarah Vanhee is presented at Veem House in collaboration with TAAK on Friday 7 December 2018. After the film screening, a moderated talk will follow together with Sarah Vanhee in dialogue with Veronique Achoui in collaboration with TAAK. Veronique Achoui is working with TAAK on [...more]
During the closing weekend of Pay Attention Please! on 29 and 30 September, we will be organizing a Social Capital Meet-Up. TAAK is the initiator of Social Capital, a multi-year programme in response to the explosive growth in construction throughout Amsterdam and the repercussions this growth is having on [...more]
Volgens Frantz Dhers raakt de geglobaliseerde mens ontheemd en moeten we op zoek naar een nieuwe balans tussen het nieuwe en het oude, het mondiale en lokale. Tijdens Wiekent Tolhuistuin spreekt Dhers op uitnodiging van TAAK om 20.30 uur in de Tuinzaal. Met zijn organisatie Let’s be Originals biedt [...more]
Play Back Talk Back #2 Five years in Woensel West Film screening, artist talk and debate TAAK and Van Abbemuseum cordially invite you to the screening of I is Somebody Else by Julieta Garcia Vazquez at Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven on Thursday 1 February 2018, followed by an artist talk and debate. Artist Julieta Garcia [...more]
Thursday December 14 at 8 pm Doors open: 7.45 pm Venue: Tuinzaal, Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam (Entrance: Downstairs, left from the stairs at the front of the THT building) With: Maral Noshad Sharifi (moderator), Charles Esche, Ehsan Fardjadniya, Erik Hagoort, Gluklya and others. Settling in a new country requires a lot of perseverance, [...more]
Heterotropics and the Research Center for Material Culture are pleased to invite you to the symposium Tropical Dissonance: Decolonizing knowledge through ethnographic archives. The symposium is organized by the research collective KUNCI Cultural Studies Center (Yogyakarta, Indonesia) as a concluding event of their residency project at the Tropenmuseum. Tropical Dissonance brings [...more]
Finissage Event and Book Presentation With Ihab Saloul, Metahaven & Jasmijn Visser Sunday May 7th 2017, 15.00 -17.30 Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam Hosted by the Special Collections UVA Language: English and Dutch Entrance is free, but please RSVP at: www.allardpiersonmuseum.nl On May 7th, 2017, [...more]
Gluklya, TAAK and Framer Framed present: PERFORMANCE GLUKLYA @ IJzaal, Tolhuistuin (next to Framer Framed) WEDNESDAY 29 MARCH, 20.00-22.00 HRS IJPROMENADE 2, AMSTERDAM The Russian artist Gluklya is currently renting a studio at the former prison Bijlmer Bajes, in the part of the building which is now called Lola Lik. [...more]
Heterotropics: Premises & Prospects Colonial nostalgia against the grain Expert meeting Reinwardt Academie (Amsterdam University of the Arts) 1st February 2017 From 15.30 to 17.00 (drinks afterwards) Location Reinwardt Academy (Amsterdam University of the Arts), Hortusplantsoen 1-3, Amsterdam. Register at: w.wesselink@ahk.nl With Sara Giannini, Christiane Bosman (TAAK), Milena Bonilla [...more]
In her talk, artist Paloma Polo introduced her latest film ‘Unrest’, which addresses the struggles of indigenous people in the Philippines. With Lara Almarcegui (artist), Louie Jalandoni (National Democratic Front of the Philippines, NDFP), Coni Ledesma (women’s rights activist), Julieta de Lima (economist), Professor Jose Maria Sison (political activist, poet) [...more]
Encounters is an on-going research and exchange platform concerned with institutions and their way of thinking. It is organised within the frame of the Curatorial Programme 15/16 at de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam. The first Encounter is organised at De PUNT, hosted by TAAK Pilot Encounter: Institution – Between Body [...more]
An international group of engineering, programming, design and art students will congregate in Amsterdam for a 10 day summer school program hosted by native Amsterdam community Hackers & Designers (H&D). The program is intensive and workshop based and will include additional public components for which also non-summer school attendees are invited to attend. About Hackers & Designers [...more]
TAAK and Cure Master have invited artist and scientist Natalie Jeremijenko for a three-day seminar with the students. Before the start of this workshop, Jeremijenko will give a public talk in Amsterdam. On 20 January she will introduce here projects and her ideas, and answer all your questions. Natalie Jeremijenko [...more]
This summer a raft floated on the Russian river Ugra. On 30 August William Speakman and Theo Tegelaers tell about their journey. How did they experience the stories of local people and their lives along the river? The resulting video of the project will be premiering this evening. Start: [...more]
Tussen-talks is part of the public program of the Tussen-ruimte project. During these evenings one writer is invited to write and recite a new piece inspired by the phenomenon of the Tussen-ruimte. Parallel to that an expert from another field will give a related lecture on the current or historical [...more]
24th of August 10.00 – 17.00 Programme: 10.00 Urban Conciousness Playshop: ‘Discovering our urban body’ with Premala Vollebregt 12.00 Lunch Break 13.00 Short presentation by Eva Pfannes & Henriëtte Waal ‘Why are we here, Why Commoning, What has been done so far’ 13.15 Lecture Hans Widmer (aka P.M.) [...more]
The City is the Freethinkers’ Space Debate between Carolien Gehrels, Jonas Staal, Ernst van den Hemel and Tiers Bakker Moderator Huib Haye van der Werf Saturay 6 October, 14:00-17:00 hrs, Admission: regular Carolien Gehrels of the Labor Party (Partij voor de Arbeid) – Amsterdam Council for Culture, [...more]