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Between the Lines/Natura Rebellis is an installation by artist Marjolijn Dijkman and composer Henry Vega. In dialogue with a poetic film essay, a robot orchestra drums on dead tree trunks from a protected forest near Verdun. This multimedia artwork shows how a landscape struggles with the aftermath of human conflict, against a backdrop of drought and climate change. Henry Vega provided the music for the robot orchestra and also wrote the occasionally intervening tandem work Natura Rebellis for three singers.

Klarafestival is the largest broadcast festival for classical music in Belgium. Every year in March, captivating (inter)national soloists and ensembles bring classical, jazz, and contemporary creations to life at various cultural venues in Brussels, including Bozar and Flagey.”

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The live performance Electrify Everything, Marjolijn Dijkman and Pom Bouvier b. translates the seductive and captivating magic of demonstrations of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment into a critical exploration of the origins of the units and language used to measure electricity. The field of electricity has been developed, manipulated, and named for three centuries to control and apply it.

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Organised by LUCA’s Arts & Society expertise network, ENACT Festival presents innovative forms of transmission of research methodologies – from LUNÄ Talks, costumed round-table enactments, reworkings of oral traditions of song and storytelling, to radio essay as a research and expository medium.

The ‘LUNÄ Talk: Turbid Ecologies’ on November 5th, on a full moon, will explore how Enlightenment thought, the Industrial Revolution, and colonization have shaped and influenced water bodies, tracing their material and immaterial residues in sediment and flow. The discussion will critically address current practices of water “management” and the paradigm shifts needed to restore both aquatic ecosystems and our relations with the more-than-human world.

Contributors: Merve Bedir, Marjolijn Dijkman, Ifor Duncan, Shivant Jhagroe, Annelies Kuypers
Hosts: Marjolijn Dijkman and Maarten Vanden Eynde (Update: tickets sold out)

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This seminar creates a public forum that brings together international scholars and artists from a plurality of backgrounds. It addresses the significant shift that is currently taking place across the sciences and arts, challenging binary distinctions such as nature–culture, human–nonhuman, mind–matter, reason–emotion and subject–object. Within the humanities and social sciences, this shift is often referred to as the ‘relational turn’. Rather than emphasising human exceptionalism, it problematises this notion and instead highlights interconnectedness, mutuality, kinship and the entanglement of all beings within complex ecological and cosmological networks.

With: Kocku von Stuckrad, Tim Rudbøg, Marjolijn Dijkman, Christiane Bosman, Anne de Andrade, Thais Di Marco, Roberto Jones Romo, Michael Schüßler, Whitney A. Bauman, Angela Marie Snæfellsjökuls Rawlings, and Manon Hedenborg White.

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The research project ‘Silt Whisperers’ (Slibfluisteraars) explores how artists can make more-than-human perspectives tangible and experiential, ensuring that the shift toward sustainable material use happens holistically, with care for both people and the planet. This research responds to developments surrounding the applications of silt along the Groningen coast.

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Second walk in the series with Marjolijn Dijkman, Carla Alma and Lotte Jensen. ‘Waker, Slaper, Dromer’ (Watcher, Sleeper, Dreamer) is a series of three walks named after the poetic names and functions of dike systems in the Netherlands.

These events connect artistic research, dike construction, ecology, philosophy and regional history and offer an in-depth look at the landscape through contributions from various experts, each with their unique and local knowledge. These walks are organized as part of Dijkman’s WaterLANDS artist residency.

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This ARIA seminar will be dedicated to interdisciplinary research and the arts, with a special focus on collaboration between the arts and the exact sciences.

The seminar aims to foster collaboration and position ARIA as an active partner in interdisciplinary research projects that engage with pressing societal challenges such as ecology, health, and technology.

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10.02.2025
Planetary Poetics, Artist Talks 2025, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, NL
17:00 at the Theory Stairs

26.02.2025
Artist Talk, Technology Driven Art, ZUYD, Maastricht, NL
14:00 Grote zaal, Toneelacademie Maastricht

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‘Waker, Slaper, Dromer’ (Watcher, Sleeper, Dreamer) is a series of three walks named after the poetic names and functions of dike systems in the Netherlands. These walks are organized by artist Marjolijn Dijkman as part of her WaterLANDS artist residency (2023-2026), which focuses on ecological restoration and depoldering in the context of the Ems-Dollard estuary in the North of the Netherlands.

During the first joint walk, ‘De Waker’ (The Watcher), together with artist Marjolijn Dijkman, botanical archeologist Mans Schepers and landscape philosopher Eric Brinckmann, we look at elements in the newly shaped Twin Dyke landscape and the broader context of the estuary and interpret it from the perspective of the watcher in a broad sense.

How does this newly formed landscape affect our relationship with this environment and the uncontrolled estuary beyond the dikes? What can we learn from this new landscape, and how does it relate to the past of Groningen with mound communities that lived in the salt marshes? (Dutch only)

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New website for ‘Waker, Slaper, Dromer’ (Watcher, Sleeper, Dreamer), a series of three walks named after the poetic names and functions of dike systems in the Netherlands. Here, the ‘watcher’ protects against the outside water first, and the inland ‘sleeper’ catches any breach. Behind this sleeper sometimes lies another ‘dreamer.’

These walks are organized by artist Marjolijn Dijkman as part of her WaterLANDS artist residency (2023-2026). She reflects on ecological restoration and depoldering in the context of the Ems-Dollard estuary and surrounding landscape in the North of the Netherlands.

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Why is land art particularly relevant today? What are its new manifestations? How do we deal with these often impermanent works of art? And how does land art shed light on the urgent ecological and social issues of today?

International conference on the future of land art, with Humberto Moro of the Dia Art Foundation (USA), Lisa Le Feuvre of the Holt/Smithson Foundation (USA), Britta Peters of Urbane Künste Ruth (GER) and many others.

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CurieuCity cultivates curiosity and wonder in everything that surrounds us individually and collectively. It’s a festival that aims to combine the scientific rigor of universities with the experiential impact of art, STEAM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics), and socio-cultural action.

Each edition of the festival often addresses a question inspired by the reality of the neighborhood where it is located. The next iteration delves into the world of water, biodiversity, and natural sciences in the Wiels Swamp neighborhood.

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From sunrise to sunset, artists will move in and between Mu.ZEE and KAAP in Ostend. Several performances will start, some ongoing.

Some are visible and loud, others barely perceptible.

The actions follow the rhythm of the sun, the tides, and the clock.

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This event is part of the exhibition Power Up, Technical Imaginaries, and Social Utopias, which refers to energy infrastructures from a feminist perspective.

‘Why Installing Women and Solar Panels is Not Enough’, lecture by Cara New Daggett.

‘Electrify Everything’ performance by Marjolijn Dijkman and Pom Bouvier-b
Electrify Everything is a critical exploration of the origins of the units and language used to measure electricity. The performance draws on the magic of the first demonstrations of electrical phenomena in the 18th century.

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On the evening of 25 March, when the moon is full, this LUNÄ Talk will focus on the transition from one energy to another, from one infrastructure to another. How can we envisage transitions without considering the need to bring history to a close before embarking on new projects? The history of energy is written as a race towards the new, towards renewal, without ever questioning the possibility of moving towards solutions of repair or transformation. It’s about turning pages and arguing that the future will be more efficient, appropriate, or cleaner.

Contributors: Fanny Lopez, Clémence André, Marie Lechner, Stéphanie Schmitt, and a written contribution by Cara New Daggett.
Hosted by: Marjolijn Dijkman & Maarten Vanden Eynde

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The première of the new iteration of ‘Electrify Everything’ with live sound composition by Pom Bouvier b., live film projection by Marjolijn Dijkman, and a recorded text by Jean Katambayi spoken by François Makanga

The 4th edition of the NOVA_XX Biennale will feature the work of 41 artists. Among the works presented in the anarkhè-exposition, several focus on cosmogonies in the liquid age, on the imaginary of space conquest, measuring instruments and nano worlds, and others on bio-art that allows us to measure the space of the duration of their display of non-human performativities, and still others on issues of geoengineering and artificial intelligence.

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The evening will be dedicated to what has been described as “green colonialism,” the development of renewable energy futures that often involves the dispossession of communities and the degradation of ecosystems. The event will focus on the consequences of the extraction of lithium, a scarce resource that plays a key role in the so-called green transition necessary for a more sustainable world. With: Marina Otera Verzier and On-Trade-Off.

The evening will be followed by a conversation, moderated by Nikolaus Hirsch and Silvia Franceschini, and Electrify Everything, a performance by Pom Bouvier-b and Marjolijn Dijkman (with a text by Jean Katambayi Mukendi).

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LASER Talk with Frank Theys, Eva- Maria Lopez, Ronny Blust, Edith Doove, Marjolijn Dijkman, Florian Zanatta. MAXLab invites artists and scientists working at the intersection of art and technology to a debate on reintroducing the human element at the center of scientific and technological progress and the role of the arts in this.

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From the 1st of October 2023, Marjolijn Dijkman will be part of the artistic research cluster Deep Histories Fragile Memories as a Ph.D. candidate at LUCA – School of Arts Brussels / Leuven University under the supervision of Wendy Morris. Research of the members of dhfm engages with the recuperation of marginalised histories, with ecologies and situated enquiries, with experimental writing, listening, and the shaping of new narratives.

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This Tryday, artist Marjolijn Dijkman, composer Henry Vega, percussion instrument maker Orlando Aguilar Velazquez and electro-technician Lukas Pol will share the first robotic experiments for the film and sound installation Between the Lines (work in progress). Between the Lines will trace the monumental impact of climate change, industrialization, and the First World War in the polluted and traumatized landscapes of the ‘Zone Rouge’ in the North East of France.

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With Pom Bouvier b., Marjolijn Dijkman and Jean Katambayi Mukendi.
‘Electrify Everything’ invites the audience to reflect on the structuring power of electricity and its relation to resources and exploitation. Pom Bouvier-b. and Marjolijn Dijkman will create a sound composition using the electric charge of specific objects and devices as a medium, playing on the variations of magnetic fields. Jean Katambayi Mukendi wrote a text for the performance based on the language of electricity. The units of electricity create different chapters that explore the history and the current state of energy production in an associative and poetic interpretation of electric terminology.

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Liquid Structures is a three-day programme of film screenings, exhibitions, and talks in the public space. With: Sol Archer; Ana Dziapshipa; Hito Steyerl;  Marjolijn Dijkman & Toril Johannessen; Cyprien Gaillard; Jonas Brinker; Emma Van Der Put; Piotr Armianovski; Meggy Rustamova; Uta Bekaia;  Zachary Formwalt; Jonathas de Andrade; Amauta Garcia & David Camargo; Marta Hryniuk & Erica Roux; Marco Pando; Li Ming; Sophio Meidoidze.

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Aquatic Tales presents three films that merge elements of documentary, fiction and abstraction, with water and aquatic life as central elements. The films reflect upon our relationship with water and thereby express a critical view on industrial and capitalist practices that distance us from nature.

With films by: Marjolijn Dijkman & Toril Johannessen, Tanja Engelberts, Patrick Hough.

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