Join us this Saturday for the opening of the exhibition ‘Performing Colonial Toxicity’ by architectural historian Samia Henni, presented in collaboration with Framer Framed. The exhibition sheds light on the redacted history of French nuclear colonialism in the Algerian Sahara and draws attention to the urgency of reckoning with this history and its lived environmental and sociopolitical impacts. An immersive multimedia installation, ‘Performing Colonial Toxicity’ is organised into a series of thirteen stations meant to be traversed and engaged by bodies. Each station presents an assemblage of materials spanning audio-visual and textile-like displays, which trace and name the spatial, atmospheric, and geological impacts of France’s atomic bombs in the Sahara, as well as its colonial classification vocabularies, and the (after)lives of its radioactive debris and nuclear wastes. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication (release date 26 November) and a public programme, please check the websites of Framer Framed and If I Can’t Dance for details. 8 October 2023–14 January 2024
Opening 7 October 2023, 19–21h Framer Framed Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71 1093 KS Amsterdam Tuesday – Sunday, 12-18hr Free / Donation @samia.henni @meganearth @framerframed @prohelvetia ‘Performing Colonial Toxicity’ is part of the Finale of Edition IX – Bodies and Technologies, taking place between September 2023 and February 2024 across Amsterdam venues. The project has been developed in collaboration with the Observatoire des armements, and the exhibition is supported by Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.   #bodiesandtechnologies In bio: – Visiting information Image: Photograph by Bruno Barrillot, co-founder of the Observatoire des armements in Lyon, France. The image was taken during a visit to France’s nuclear sites in Reggane and In Ekker in the Algerian Sahara, with the filmmaker Larbi Benchiha and his team in November 2007. Courtesy Observatoire des armements (www.obsarm.org). [ID: Against a background of sand and stones, a pile of twisted and intertwined pieces of iron.]

If you are in Amsterdam on Saturday, please join to the opening. Here is the registration link: https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/opening-performing-colonial-toxicity-tickets-708491104967?aff=oddtdtcreator Here are more details about the exhibition: https://framerframed.nl/en/exposities/expositie-performing-colonial-toxicity/NBC the exhibition: Thanks to the entire team for their wonderful work!

Join us tomorrow for ‘Entrophy’, a collaborative three-performance programme coalescing Constantina Zavitsanos’ research around entropy, polyvocality and indeterminacy. Happening on-site and online, the programme is conjured with the performers Angelo Custódio and Pedro Matias, S*an D. Henry-Smith, and Geo Wyex. Each performance responds to the same score initiated by Zavitsanos and developed together with the performers through a twist on the popular game Twenty Questions. With Zavitsanos in the role of the guesser, the artists have been asked to think of ‘absolutely nothing’ before answering twenty yes/no questions on the performance they were going to stage. Though based on nothing, their answers determined the score for each performance, unsettling rigid understandings of production and reproduction, autonomy and dependency, interpretation and creation. The resulting performance(s) do not belong to anyone. They exist in a space of collaboration and not-knowing, moving across shared in/capacities and different thresholds of perception. 30 September 2023 15hr (last tickets!) & 18hr (fully booked) On-site: Splendor Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 116 1011 LX Amsterdam €16,50 regular / €10 students Online: Live stream on zoom Free with registration Accessibility Information: Splendor is wheelchair friendly. Both on-site and online, the programme features sign language interpretation, CART and artistic audio description. #constantinazavitsanos @oralityovermorality @intimatelyiridescent @lil_sunchoke @muck_stud @splendoramsterdam ‘Entrophy’ is part of the Finale of Edition IX – Bodies and Technologies, taking place between September 2023 and February 2024 across Amsterdam venues. #bodiesandtechnologies In bio: – Tickets, registration for live stream and visiting information [ID: A blurry thermal image of a city landscape. Skyscrapers and tall buildings appear as an almost uniform shape, vague and indistinct from each other in a haze of yellows. The sky above gradates from purples to dark blues. A center focus symbol reads: “1.9.”]

Join us this Saturday for ‘Entrophy’, a collaborative three-performance programme coalescing Constantina Zavitsanos’ research around entropy, polyvocality and indeterminacy. Happening on-site and online, the programme is conjured with the performers Angelo Custódio and Pedro Matias, S*an D. Henry-Smith, and Geo Wyex. Each performance responds to the same score initiated by Zavitsanos and developed together with the performers through a twist on the popular game Twenty Questions. With Zavitsanos in the role of the guesser, the artists have been asked to think of ‘absolutely nothing’ before answering twenty yes/no questions on the performance they were going to stage. Though based on nothing, their answers determined the score for each performance, unsettling rigid understandings of production and reproduction, autonomy and dependency, interpretation and creation. The resulting performance(s) do not belong to anyone. They exist in a space of collaboration and not-knowing, moving across shared in/capacities and different thresholds of perception. 30 September 2023 15hr & 18hr On-site: Splendor Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 116 1011 LX Amsterdam €16,50 regular / €10 students Online: Live stream on zoom Free with registration Accessibility Information: Splendor is wheelchair friendly. Both on-site and online, the programme features sign language interpretation, CART and artistic audio description. #constantinazavitsanos @oralityovermorality @intimatelyiridescent @lil_sunchoke @muck_stud @splendoramsterdam ‘Entrophy’ is part of the Finale of Edition IX – Bodies and Technologies, taking place between September 2023 and February 2024 across Amsterdam venues. #bodiesandtechnologies In bio: – Tickets, registration for live stream and visiting information

The Edition Bag is now available! With purchasing the Edition Bag, you support If I Can’t Dance and receive a series of seven posters from Susanne Altmann, Black Speaks Back, Devika Chotoe, Samia Henni, Nuraini Juliastuti, Grant Watson and Constantina Zavitsanos. Additionally, the Edition Bag contains the Finale programme booklet in print, with an expandable calendar, as well as a voucher-code offering a 15% discount on all If I Can’t Dance publications, including new titles and previous releases. Pick up your Edition Bag at one of the Finale venues during an event, or at the If I Can’t Dance office at Westerdok 606-608, Amsterdam (opening times: Monday – Thursday from 10-17hr). Printed by @robstolk.amsterdam, designed by @MaudVervenne @ingeborgkaschnitz @blackspeaksback @devikachotoe @samia.henni @generalworks_project #GrantWatson #ConstantinaZavitsanos The Finale of Edition IX – ‘Bodies and Technologies’ is taking place between September 2023 and February 2024 across Amsterdam venues. #bodiesandtechnologies In bio: - Link to edition bag Photos: Maarten Nauw.

We are pleased to invite you to the exhibition ‘Performing Colonial Toxicity’ by architectural historian Samia Henni, presented in collaboration with Framer Framed. The exhibition sheds light on the redacted history of French nuclear colonialism in the Algerian Sahara and draws attention to the urgency of reckoning with this history and its lived environmental and sociopolitical impacts. An immersive multimedia installation, ‘Performing Colonial Toxicity’ is organised into a series of thirteen stations meant to be traversed and engaged by bodies. Each station presents an assemblage of materials spanning audio-visual and textile-like displays, which trace and name the spatial, atmospheric, and geological impacts of France’s atomic bombs in the Sahara, as well as its colonial classification vocabularies, and the (after)lives of its radioactive debris and nuclear wastes. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication (release date 26 November) and a public programme, please check the websites of Framer Framed and If I Can’t Dance for details. 8 October 2023–14 January 2024 Opening 7 October 2023, 19–21hr Framer Framed Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71 1093 KS Amsterdam Tuesday – Sunday, 12-18hr Free / Donation @samia.henni @meganearth @framerframed @prohelvetia ‘Performing Colonial Toxicity’ is part of the Finale of Edition IX – Bodies and Technologies, taking place between September 2023 and February 2024 across Amsterdam venues. The project has been developed in collaboration with the Observatoire des armements, and the exhibition is supported by Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.   #bodiesandtechnologies In bio: – Visiting information Image: Photograph by Bruno Barrillot, co-founder of the Observatoire des armements in Lyon, France. The image was taken during a visit to France’s nuclear sites in Reggane and In Ekker in the Algerian Sahara, with the filmmaker Larbi Benchiha and his team in November 2007. Courtesy Observatoire des armements (www.obsarm.org). [ID: Against a background of sand and stones, a pile of twisted and intertwined pieces of iron. In the foreground, a measuring device.]

We are thrilled to invite you to ‘Entrophy’, a collaborative three-performance programme coalescing Constantina Zavitsanos’ research around entropy, polyvocality and indeterminacy. Happening on-site and online, the programme is conjured with the performers Angelo Custódio and Pedro Matias, S*an D. Henry-Smith, and Geo Wyex. Each performance responds to the same score initiated by Zavitsanos and developed together with the performers through a twist on the popular game Twenty Questions. With Zavitsanos in the role of the guesser, the artists have been asked to think of ‘absolutely nothing’ before answering twenty yes/no questions on the performance they were going to stage. Though based on nothing, their answers determined the score for each performance, unsettling rigid understandings of production and reproduction, autonomy and dependency, interpretation and creation. The resulting performance(s) do not belong to anyone. They exist in a space of collaboration and not-knowing, moving across shared in/capacities and different thresholds of perception. 30 September 2023 15hr & 18hr On-site: Splendor Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 116 1011 LX Amsterdam €16,50 regular / €10 students Online: Live stream on zoom Free with registration Accessibility Information: Splendor is wheelchair friendly. Both on-site and online, the programme features sign language interpretation, CART and artistic audio description. #constantinazavitsanos @oralityovermorality @intimatelyiridescent @lil_sunchoke @muck_stud @splendoramsterdam ‘Entrophy’ is part of the Finale of Edition IX – Bodies and Technologies, taking place between September 2023 and February 2024 across Amsterdam venues. #bodiesandtechnologies In bio: – Tickets, registration for live stream and visiting information [ID: Against an opaque purple background, two symmetrical bell-like shapes stretch out from a bright light source that ties them in the middle. Each bell-shape seems to contain mirrored images of universes and galaxies.]

Today: Devika Chotoe in conversation with Black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art Tina M. Campt and teacher and decolonial thinker Rolando Vázquez Melken about excavating technologies of perception as a key site for emancipative pedagogies. SHEBANG Hettenheuvelweg 8 1101 BN Amsterdam €7,50 regular / €5 students @devikachotoe #tinamcampt #rolandovazquezmelken @shebangamsterdam ‘Excavating technologies of perception from within the vistas of modernity’ is part of the Finale of Edition IX – Bodies and Technologies, taking place between September 2023 and February 2024 across Amsterdam venues. #bodiesandtechnologies In bio: – Tickets and visiting information Image: Devika Chotoe, 'Forthcoming (Not Yet Here, But Always Been There)' 2022, performance. Photo: Temra Pavlovic. [ID]: Photo of a intense dark space, with about eight dispersed, candle lit, spots.

We are thrilled to invite you to ‘Entrophy’, a collaborative three-performance programme coalescing Constantina Zavitsanos’ research around entropy, polyvocality and indeterminacy. Happening on-site and online, the programme is conjured with the performers Angelo Custódio and Pedro Matias, S*an D. Henry-Smith, and Geo Wyex. Each performance responds to the same score initiated by Zavitsanos and developed together with the performers through a twist on the popular game Twenty Questions. With Zavitsanos in the role of the guesser, the artists have been asked to think of ‘absolutely nothing’ before answering twenty yes/no questions on the performance they were going to stage. Though based on nothing, their answers determined the score for each performance, unsettling rigid understandings of production and reproduction, autonomy and dependency, interpretation and creation. The resulting performance(s) do not belong to anyone. They exist in a space of collaboration and not-knowing, moving across shared in/capacities and different thresholds of perception. 30 September 2023 15hr & 18hr On-site: Splendor Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 116 1011 LX Amsterdam €16,50 regular / €10 students Online: Live stream on zoom Free with registration Accessibility Information: Splendor is wheelchair friendly. Both on-site and online, the programme features sign language interpretation, CART and artistic audio description. #constantinazavitsanos @oralityovermorality @intimatelyiridescent @lil_sunchoke @muck_stud @splendoramsterdam ‘Entrophy’ is part of the Finale of Edition IX – Bodies and Technologies, taking place between September 2023 and February 2024 across Amsterdam venues. #bodiesandtechnologies In bio: – Tickets, registration for live stream and visiting information Image: Constantina Zavitsanos, TBA, 2023. Digital photograph made in a two-mirror Schlieren system with knife edge, dimensions variable. [ID: Against a black background, an image of otherwise invisible entropic air currents plume along the shadowed ground of a round telescope mirror. In the foreground, two fingers curl over a lit candle that stands in front of the mirror.]

We will kick-off the Finale of Edition IX – ‘Bodies and Technologies’ with a conversation between our Edition IX-fellow Devika Chotoe, Black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art Tina M. Campt, and decolonial thinker Rolando Vázquez Melken on 20 September at Shebang. They will speak about excavating technologies of perception as a key site for emancipative pedagogies. SHEBANG Hettenheuvelweg 8 1101 BN Amsterdam €7,50 regular / €5 students @devikachotoe #tinamcampt #rolandovazquezmelken @shebangamsterdam #bodiesandtechnologies In bio: – Tickets and visiting information Image description: A black silhouette of a person, holding their arms, crossed at the wrists, above their head, against a dark-purple/blue background.

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to the Finale programme of Edition IX – ‘Bodies and Technologies’, taking place in Amsterdam between September 2023 and February 2024, and including presentations of new productions and publications by Susanne Altmann, Black Speaks Back, Devika Chotoe, Samia Henni, Nuraini Juliastuti, Grant Watson, and Constantina Zavitsanos. Edition IX commenced in July 2022 and has since then been shaped by each of the commissioned artists and researchers through their specific trajectories, parts of which are shared in our online If I Can’t Dance Studio. In the coming months, they will present the outcomes of their work in collaboration with our co-production and presentation partners: Bijlmerbios, CBK Zuidoost, Goethe-Institut, Framer Framed, IHLIA & OBA Oosterdok, SHEBANG, and Splendor. @ingeborgkaschnitz @blackspeaksback @devikachotoe #SamiaHenni @generalworks_project #GrantWatson #ConstantinaZavitsanos #bodiesandtechnologies In bio: - Link to programme booklet

Welcome to our ‘guest room’ in the If I Can’t Dance Studio.   In the past months we have invited you to visit the online studio rooms where the artists and researchers that are part our current, ninth, edition share glimpses into their work-in-process. Soon we will get back to you with information on the what-where-when of their project presentations in our festival across Amsterdam venues, starting this September.   Until then, we invite you to visit the studio room of our dear guests Becket MWN and Aimée Zito Lema, where you can find materials related to their collaborative film project ‘The Actress’, which was presented as an installation at the Grazer Kunstverein in Fall 2021. Premised on the scenario of an actress and director meeting for the rehearsal of a monologue about what it means to embody an “I”, their project has traversed the shared disciplinary edges of theater, film, and the visual arts, placing at the forefront the act of translation – of one language into another, of a language into a body, of a theater rehearsal into a performance video.   In their studio room, ‘The Actress’ becomes ‘The Actress(es)’. Organized into a prelude with three chapters (with chapters two and three coming in Fall 2023 and Winter 2024), the remnants and reflections offered forth give lively looks inside the open research questions upon which the artists’ process has touched. And it is precisely with ‘touch’ that the duo experiments, taking up the unlikely space of the digital studio to emphasize the materiality of the project’s “thinking process” across its gestures of research, rehearsal and recording. * Becket MWN @bbbecket Aimée Zito Lema @aimeezitolema Simon François @simon_francois_moving_design Camila Zito Lema @camilazitolema Grazer Kunstverein @grazer_kunstverein #KateStrain Verena Borecky @verener Steirisher Herbst @steirischerherbst   * Image: Fragment of the script for ‘The Actress’ during Amsterdam rehearsal.   *   #bodiesandtechnologies In bio: - Link to the If I Can’t Dance Studio