24 November 17:00 - 19:30 (Entrance is free)

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, Julie Goslinga, Inge Kengen, Pum van de Koppel, and a subdued rant by Nathalie Hartjes.