Presentation: Sandberg Instituut

Disclosing Discomforts

by Disarming Design department at Sandberg Instituut

28 Oct 2021
31 Oct 2021

cooking, making, weaving, screening, sensing, sculpting, giving, talking, playing, mapping, healing, workshopping, celebrating, reclaiming, documenting, forming, witnessing, juxtaposing, tripping, translating, transposing, publishing & unfolding

The Disarming Design department at the Sandberg Instituut is pleased to present Disclosing Discomforts: an exhibition sketching research from 17 participating artists and designers through action, participation, performance and installation.

Opening Thursday 28 October at Mediamatic in Amsterdam, until Sunday 31 October.

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Disclosing Discomforts - by Disarming Design department at Sandberg Instituut Disarming Design is a two-year Master programme at the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam committed to design practices that deal with conditions of conflict, oppressive forces and entangled histories. Operating at the intersection of design, crafts, community and politics, the programme derives from the long-term collaboration between the Design Department and the design platform ‘Disarming Design from Palestine’. This exhibition was sketching research from 17 participating artists and designers… Sandberg Instituut

Program

28 Oct — Thursday

18:00 Exhibition opens
Audience Participation works:
Word Match مفردات طاولــــة by Siwar (Waterside Greenhouse)
discussions on the transformative and communal aspect of language, over a backgammon match, 2 time slots of 30 mins. 
23:00 Exhibition closes

9 Oct — Friday

10:00 Exhibition opens
11:00 - 13:00 Audience Participation
works: Tracing threads of collectivity (Sluisdeurenloods) (Participatory Weaving Sessions with Samira Vogel )
11:00 - 13:00 Workshop: & How to find housing in the Netherlands
15:00 - 17:00 by Jara van Teeffelen & Clara Gradel (The Meeting Room)
11:00 - 18:00 Participatory works: Word Match مفردات طاولــــة by Siwar Kraytem (Waterside Greenhouses)
discussions on the transformative and communal aspect of language, over a backgammon match. 6 time slots, 30 mins available every hour
12:00 – 20:00 We die, we try, we cry, we keep it rolling by Karmel Sabri Participatory grape leaf rolling and cooking performance (Sluisdeurenloods)
15:00 - 17:00 Guided Tours: Special & Invited Guests
19:00 – 20:00 Film-Screening (Sluisdeurenloods) Saja Amro screening 3 Short films from Palestine: Ambience, directed by Wisam Aljafari Area C, directed by Salah Abu Nimah Him and I, directed by Ibrahim Handal

30 Oct — Saturday

10:00 Exhibition opens
10:00 - 14:00 Workshop: The De-productive Assembly by Lama Aloul (in collaboration with coven and Marissa Torres)
11:00 - 13:00 Audience Participation works: Tracing threads of collectivity (Sluisdeurenloods) (Participatory Weaving Sessions with Samira Vogel) Word Match مفردات طاولــــة by Siwar Kraytem discussions on the transformative and communal aspect of language, over a backgammon match. 6 time slots, 30 mins available every hour (Waterside Greenhouses)
11:00 - 13:00 Workshop: How to find housing in the Netherlands by Jara van Teeffelen & Clara Gradel (The Meeting Room)
13:00 – 19:00 We die, we try, we cry, we keep it rolling by Karmel Sabri Participatory grape leaf rolling and cooking performance (Sluisdeurenloods)
15:00 - 17:00 Workshop: How to find housing in the Netherlands by Jara van Teeffelen & Clara Gradel (The Meeting Room)

31 Oct — Sunday

10:00 Exhibition opens
11:00 - 13:00 Audience Participation works: Tracing threads of collectivity (Sluisdeurenloods) (Participatory Weaving Sessions with Samira Vogel)
11:00 - 16:00 Word Match مفردات طاولــــة by Siwar Kraytem discussions on the transformative and communal aspect of language, over a backgammon match. Six timeslots, 30 mins available every hour (Waterside Greenhouses)
11:00 - 13:00 Workshop: & How to find housing in the Netherlands
15:00 - 17:00 by Jara van Teeffelen & Clara Gradel (The Meeting Room)
16:00 - 16:45 Language Café, Encounter 1: On reclaiming established discourses and narratives, by Rasha Dakkak and Siwar Kraytem (Sluisdeurenloods)
17:00 Exhibition Closes

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Disclosing Discomforts exhibition poster -

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Disclosing Discomforts - by Disarming Design department at Sandberg Instituut Disarming Design is a two-year Master programme at the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam committed to design practices that deal with conditions of conflict, oppressive forces and entangled histories. Operating at the intersection of design, crafts, community and politics, the programme derives from the long-term collaboration between the Design Department and the design platform ‘Disarming Design from Palestine’. This exhibition was sketching research from 17 participating artists and designers… Sandberg Instituut

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Disclosing Discomforts - by Disarming Design department at Sandberg Instituut Disarming Design is a two-year Master programme at the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam committed to design practices that deal with conditions of conflict, oppressive forces and entangled histories. Operating at the intersection of design, crafts, community and politics, the programme derives from the long-term collaboration between the Design Department and the design platform ‘Disarming Design from Palestine’. This exhibition was sketching research from 17 participating artists and designers… Sandberg Instituut

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Disclosing Discomforts - by Disarming Design department at Sandberg Instituut Disarming Design is a two-year Master programme at the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam committed to design practices that deal with conditions of conflict, oppressive forces and entangled histories. Operating at the intersection of design, crafts, community and politics, the programme derives from the long-term collaboration between the Design Department and the design platform ‘Disarming Design from Palestine’. This exhibition was sketching research from 17 participating artists and designers… Sandberg Instituut

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Disclosing Discomforts - by Disarming Design department at Sandberg Instituut Disarming Design is a two-year Master programme at the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam committed to design practices that deal with conditions of conflict, oppressive forces and entangled histories. Operating at the intersection of design, crafts, community and politics, the programme derives from the long-term collaboration between the Design Department and the design platform ‘Disarming Design from Palestine’. This exhibition was sketching research from 17 participating artists and designers… Sandberg Instituut

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Disclosing Discomforts - by Disarming Design department at Sandberg Instituut Disarming Design is a two-year Master programme at the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam committed to design practices that deal with conditions of conflict, oppressive forces and entangled histories. Operating at the intersection of design, crafts, community and politics, the programme derives from the long-term collaboration between the Design Department and the design platform ‘Disarming Design from Palestine’. This exhibition was sketching research from 17 participating artists and designers… Sandberg Instituut