Instructions for Placemaking: Assembling Land

About Assembling Land: Rehearsals towards Placemaking by de Appel COOP x Dutch Art Institute
Assembling Land: Rehearsals towards Placemaking, a cooperative study program of de Appel at the Roaming Academy, Dutch Art Institute (DAI), will host a public event aired as a 12-hour broadcast on Radio Alhara. The event presents the residues of a year-long collective study on themes of housing, water, out/institutions, and land. Throughout the day, participants will engage in listening sessions, an artist talk, and workshops. The artist talk features Essa Grayeb (Jerusalem) and Dimas Sugih (Jakarta). The workshops will facilitate the making of self-published pamphlets documenting the COOP’s exchanges and learnings, harvesting the exhibited ‘instructions for placemaking’’, and a third session dedicated to creating a manual led by the Assembling Land COOP in collaboration with the Book Bloc Brigade.

Schedule:
10-11am: Landing & Coffee-making; warming up with games with Eszter Dobos
11am-1pm: Reading session; Discussion and bookbinding workshop (free reservation link)
1-2pm: Break
2-3pm: Screening program
3-6pm: Book Bloc Brigade workshop (closed workshop)
6-7.30pm: Screening and listening programs
7.30-8.30pm: Break
8.30-10pm: Live noise set by Echo Guo, Kıvanç Sert and Chloë Janssens

The program is freely accessible, except for the closed workshop by Book Bloc Brigade. Please make a reservation for the reading session, discussion and bookbinding workshop in the morning, as capacity is limited.

The COOP Study Group are: Anastasia Nefedova, Chloë Janssens, Echo Guo, Eszter Dobos, Federica Nicastro, Foad Alijani, Francesca Pionati, Kıvanç Sert, Meii Soh, Qiaoling Cai, Sara Alberani, Saverio Cantoni, Shaza Omran, Sille Kima, Thamyres VM, Tuba Kılıç. Tutor team: Noor Abuarafeh and Marina Christodoulidou.

About Our People are Our Mountains: Instructions for Placemaking
In Our People are Our Mountains (quoting from Amílcar Cabral’s words on the Guinea-Bissau's liberation movement), artists and collectives in Palestine and elsewhere who work on questions around land from different perspectives, collaborate with majelis (assembly) Jakarta by sending instructions remotely. Utilizing instructions, rather than physically transferring works or facilitating travel, stems from ethical, political, and environmental considerations. The act of sending instructions is also a way to point to the physical and symbolic distances, particularly emphasizing the profound difficulties associated with moving in and out of Palestine, especially during the ongoing genocide. This initiative, therefore, is an act of transmission and trust—artists will transmit their creative directives to counterparts in Jakarta, who will, in turn, realize, contribute to, perform, or enact the instructions in place.

In the Amsterdam iteration, the instructions will be presented, whereas some of them will be activated throughout the coming weeks. Every week of the presentation span, a new video by the participating artists and others will be screened on loop for one full exhibition week. In addition a programme of performances, workshops and gatherings will take place throughout the project span. This broadcast facilitated by de Appel COOP x Dutch Art Institute is part of the program