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Sonic Acts Academy is a three-day festival at the intersection of innovative audio-visual and performative art and critical thinking, motivated by changes in the ecological, political, technological and social landscape.  The Academy also invites visitors to join for a conference that features cutting-edge emerging and well-known artistic voices.

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Georges Senga (member of Picha) and Marjolijn Dijkman (co-founder of Enough Room for Space) will introduce ‘On-Trade-Off’, an artistic trajectory initiated by the artists’ initiatives Picha (Lubumbashi, DRC) and Enough Room for Space (Brussels, BE) and some of the works they have developed within this project. Focusing on this one chemical element (Li3) allows the project to zoom in on particular social, ecological, economic and political phenomena that characterise the production processes currently experiencing rapid growth.

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The starting point for the research project On-Trade-Off is the raw material lithium, a naturally occurring element (number three on the periodic table), and its crucial role in the global transition towards a ‘green and fossil fuel free economy’. With: Sammy Baloji, Marjolijn Dijkman, Jean Katambayi, Musasa, Georges Senga, Daddy Tshikaya, Maarten Vanden Eynde.

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With the exhibition Polarities – Psychology and Politics of Being Ecological – including the projects of this years winners of the BAD Award – MU stays with the Anthropocene trouble by tapping in on the extremities of our time, seen from the collaborative perspectives of scientists and artists, without losing sight of the way we must eventually all learn how to cope with drastic changes.

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In this Amsterdam edition – also moonlit – experts with different scholarly backgrounds will focus on the ecological, social and economic consequences of the extraction and processing of lithium and cobalt. They will look both at the history of electricity and the current use of raw materials from the DRC for electronics and energy storage.

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‘The Extended Mind’ proposes that our cognition – that is our mind, thoughts, reasoning, perception, imagination, intelligence, emotion and experience – does not just take place within our brains. It also takes place through our bodies and the broader world and enabled by all the tools, technologies, institutions, materials and techniques we might use to orientate our understanding of where we are in the world.

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The Dutch contribution to the XXII Triennale di Milano comprises a programme of events in Milan, Rotterdam, and a publication. It takes the complex relationships between light and dark, between seeing and not seeing, as a starting point for an exploration of their conflicting effects on humans, the Earth and other organisms.

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On-Trade-Off: The Weight of Wonders is an artistic trajectory initiated by Picha (DRC) and Enough Room for Space (BE). The exhibition shows works by Sammy Baloji, Marjolijn Dijkman, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Musasa, Jean Katambayi, Georges Senga and Daddy Tshikaya. On-Trade-Off highlights lithium (li3), which is considered ‘the new black gold’ because of its crucial role in the global transition to a fossil-free economy.

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Future Genealogies, Tales From The Equatorial Line takes the Equator’s imaginary line not as one of demarcation—the majestic Congo River disregards it by straddling it twice—but rather of imbrication. At its closest a place where earth gravity alleviates and where the poles’ magnetic attractions balance each other, the equatorial latitude opens the possibility for narratives that respond to alternate compasses, recognizes new centers of gravity and where de-polarized stories can unfold.

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The Screen City Biennial 2019 aims to present, facilitate and examine art and artistic inquiry questioning the effect of human action on implicated ecologies.

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‘Reclaiming Vision’, Marjolijn Dijkman and Toril Johannessen will be shown on an immersive widescreen format at the Levyhalli hall at Suomenlinna. The cinematic piece features various processes in brackish water and its inhabitants that are hidden to the naked human eye. Curated by Jenni Nurmenniemi.

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The narrative path of the exhibition Under Water uniquely avoids analysing ideological problems in the Anthropocene Era and those that can be considered as scenarios of a “post-water” future. 

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Uncommon Nature looks towards ideas of collective experience and the inherent multiplicity that is encapsulated within it both online and ‘in real life’. Satellite is a screen-based public art project that exists across multiple public locations simultaneously. With: Jonathas de Andrade, Marjolijn Dijkman, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Martina Amati, Rä di Martino.

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The exhibition title Being(s) with draws our attention from human-centered thinking to how everything is connected through various intertwining, co-dependent materials, beings and technologies. However, these relations are not purely harmonious. The challenge of being with others is the core of the exhibition. Its twenty selected artists provide an extensive study of how non-human factors and powers shape our lives.

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The exhibition POSTCENTRAL touches on the question of where “the body” can be found and where it might be heading, with a focus on non-naturalist ideas of women’s and queer bodies as spaces of futurity and potential.

Curated by Navine G. Khan- Dossos. With Zach Blas, Jesse Darling, Marjolijn Dijkman, Antye Guenther, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Kirsten Stolle, Addie Wagenknecht, Xiyadie.

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Solo exhibition with collaborative works by Marjolijn Dijkman & Toril Johannessen including the sculptural installation Liquid Properties, the film Reclaiming Vision and the photo series Aberrations, all produced in 2018.

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The TENDENCIES exhibition focuses on works that question scientific and technological innovations as much as they incorporate them. For this fourth edition, it looks at our relationship with possible futures, be they dystopian or utopian.

Sound and visual installations by six artists, Marjolijn Dijkman, Jerry Galle, Mikkel Rørbo, Kris Verdonck, Pierre Jean Giloux, and SEAD Collective, are brought together to provoke an overview effect, like that experienced by certain astronauts when they observe Earth from space and realise how fragile life is.

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This LUNÄ Talk, held as part of On-Trade-Off, will focus on the environmental, social and economic implications of the extraction and processing of lithium. Hosted by the artists Marjolijn Dijkman and Maarten Vanden Eynde, researchers Raf Custers, Jeroen Cuvelier, Zheng Li, Tine Hens will engage in conversation with the artists Femke Herregraven, Sammy Baloji and Jean Katambayi who are part of the project On-Trade-Off.

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HIAP offers space for experimental, cross-disciplinary art practices and to actively contribute to topical debates. With on the 3rd of April: Artist Talk at Publics, Helsinki & on the 5th of April: Post-Fossil Transition Project: Learning Circle hosted by Marjolijn Dijkman at HIAP Suomenlinna.

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The sculptural installation Liquid Properties, realised in collaboration with Toril Johannessen, is currently on view as part of the group exhibition Time Within Time at Verbeke Foundation, a private art site where culture, nature and ecology go hand in hand. Liquid Properties is an experiment that looks at how we relate to (microscopic) life, questioning what is considered attractive, natural, resilient, repulsive, toxic or harmful.

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Human beings, nature, money, data, goods …, all around us, nearby or very far away, everything is continuously in flux. The artists in this exhibition do not position themselves in the focal points of current events. They move quietly and unravel the deeper nature of mankind as a species in constant motion.

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E.S.P. will present work that complicates notions of science and fiction and the binary systems of knowledge they have come to represent. The series opens with Reclaiming Vision(2018), by Marjolijn Dijkman and Toril Johannessen and Motion at a Distance (2018) by Lindsay Packer and Andrew Yong Hoon Lee. The screening will conclude with Phase Transitions in Liquid Crystals (1978) by Jean Painlevé.

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Navigating Polarities, measures the blind spots of anthropocentric perspectives alongside – in underwater filmmaker Jean Painlevé’s words – “the mysteries and miracles of nature”. Exploring perception and world views through the lens of diverse fields of thought, the artist asks: How can shifting between the macroscopic and the microscopic help us to imagine complex systems that are otherwise hard to grasp?

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The works in this group exhibition will create an awareness of how different elements are entangled in a network of relations. The complexity and relational nature in the works offer a change of perspective of the world and our place in it.

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