You are cordially invited to 'We don't want to be stars (but parts of constellations)' on Friday (starting at 17:00), Saturday (starting at 12:00), Sunday (starting at 13:00) 20 - 22 September, 2024. Please scan or click the QR code below to access the program booklet.
Every day informal reading groups with amongst others Margit Säde and Ivana Vaseva; performances by Natalia Papaeva, Viktorija Ilioska, Fani Konstantinidou, and Doe Maar Niet; a performative reading by Alaa Abu Asad; workshops by Lianne van Roekel and Mint Park; Femke Ravensbergen, and Elke Uitentuis; films by Sojung Jun and Eléonore de Montesquiou; a group conversation with Stefano Harney; and cooking and eating with Mohamed Alnoor Hedjaab!
Every day informal reading groups with amongst others Margit Säde and Ivana Vaseva; performances by Natalia Papaeva, Viktorija Ilioska, Fani Konstantinidou, and Doe Maar Niet; a performative reading by Alaa Abu Asad; workshops by Lianne van Roekel and Mint Park; Femke Ravensbergen, and Elke Uitentuis; films by Sojung Jun and Eléonore de Montesquiou; a group conversation with Stefano Harney; and cooking and eating with Mohamed Alnoor Hedjaab!
'We don't want to be stars (but parts of constellations)' revolves around the question: How do we create a meeting place for practicing and honing the art of mutually dependent coexistence? The three-day symposium is, so to say, a cooperative gathering in which the common is not defined in terms of identity but as the work of connection and the alliance between (local) communities, human and nonhuman, that act, build, and create in common. As such, the symposium can be understood as an ongoing experiment in which we engage in a kind of improvised study by 'talking and walking around with other people, working, dancing, suffering,’ [1] and passing time together. All while eating collectively prepared Sudanese meals.
The program is in English. Yet at times it weaves in Buryat, Korean, Sudanese and Dutch.