From synchronicity to asynchronicity, affect to effect. In movement and stillness. Through somatic practices, we initiated a circular form of being together in space, sharing stories in non-linear ways. As a result, an ever-moving chain of sonic and written matter was assembled, creating a mode of sharing agencies and stories from sender to receiver; from receiver to receiver.

Departing from the title “Storytelling: Who owns the narrative?” as the premise of our second confluence within the sessions of Assembling Land: Rehearsals Towards Place-making, this episode invites listeners to attend our chain of correspondences and letter-making, as reflections of personal and worldly perspectives—gestures of staying together.

The podcasts are formed in chapters corresponding to our peer-to-peer learning around Land, Housing and Out/Institution, each time seeking ways to question ourselves by listening to the varied and polyrhythmic offerings from the people and places we encounter. In this process of place-making, we explore our practices and transmit through the broadcasting platform and extended community of Radio Alhara.

Assembling Land: Rehearsals Towards Place-making is de Appel’s COOP study group at DAI Roaming Academy unfolding throughout 2024. Through the group’s monthly encounters, five podcasts will share the harvest of each iteration with attuned overarching themes as departure points. After our first confluence in Nida (Lithuania), this second episode was initiated in March 2024 at PAF Performing Art Forum in France, during Confluence 2: Storytelling: Who owns the narrative?.

Dutch Art Institute (DAI) is a nomadic accredited MA program landing in various locations and for seven times (confluences) per academic year with the student body and crew. The study groups, which last the full academic year, are one of the pillars of its program and are carefully composed of and conducted by collaborations with an art institution, in this case de Appel in Amsterdam.

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