Tense Tides
A (farewell?) party in three acts
Dark clouds are gathering over the NDSM wharf. An ominous future looms over Nieuw Dakota, as it does for many fellow institutions in Amsterdam Noord. These last months are turbulent; can we continue our programs? In what way, do we put on a new face? Can we don another guise? For years we have been building towards a flourishing cultural life on the former wharf in the North of Amsterdam, and now condemning waves lap up against the quay...These are tense tides. Nieuw Dakota invites you to experience these turbulent times with us in a series of happenings that follows the structure of a three-act play:
ACT I: In the eye of the storm
2 November 19:00 - 02:00
ACT II: System failure, on errors and glitches
24 November 17:00 - 19:30
ACT III: Beyond expiration date
14 December
ACT II: System failure, on errors and glitches
24 November 17:00 - 19:30
The social, cultural and financial structures we erect around us as edifices to shape our existence are often invisible, as well as coercive. We want to be able to rely on these systems, but they are anywhere and everywhere. Ubiquitous and yet elusive. Sometimes they trap us, manifest in unspoken expectations, subject us to a normative gaze that controls our self-expression like an unforgiving iron mold. Then again, they seem to thwart whatever free space we have, yet simultaneously too fragile to lean on. Sometimes they are so invisible that they go unnoticed until they disappear: 404, ERROR, PAGE NOT FOUND. In Amsterdam, 66 cultural institutions are in danger of disappearing, Nieuw Dakota is one of them.
In the second act of Tense Tides, we show work by artists who confront, present or subvert the errors that creep into our systems. We balance this happening between errors and glitches, where the former is a mistake that simply needs to be fixed, the glitch offers an opportunity: it is a hitch in the system that produces something new, something surprising.
Nieuw Dakota invites the audience, during an interactive afternoon, to playfully explore the tension and opportunities between errors and glitches, sometimes as metaphor and sometimes literally. And perhaps sometimes by knocking down structures that no longer serve us.
With work by Lorenz Beckmann, Julia Goslinga, Inge Kengen, Pum van de Koppel, and a subdued rant by Nathalie Hartjes.
ACT I: In the eye of the storm
November 2, 19:00 - 02:00
During Museum Night in dialogue with Beautiful Distress House
With ACT I: In the eye of the storm, we create the set-up for this stormy autumn. We look for footing, but the water is at our lips. We lean against the wind as the cold whips across our faces with wet lashes. Amid the turbulence, we suddenly stand still, feeling paralyzed by the frenzy. During Museum Night we show work by artists who play with the opposites of calm & commotion and invite you to experience this chaotic standstill for yourself.
With work by Sanne van Balen, Tamar Blom & Federico Murgia and Antonia Klimsza.
In parallel, our neighbors Beautiful Distress House present 'Techno Therapy', where you can dance the tension out of your body again.
Program
19:00-22:00 Techno Therapy with Flo
22:00-22:30 Performance by Sanne van Balen, Distance in Blue (ca. 20 minuten)
22:30-23:15 Juliette Kool (Techno Therapy)
23:15-00:40 Roswitha & Mr. Henky
00:40-02:00 Claw & Catnip
