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SUMMARY:Household Robots : Training Datasets & the Politics of Categories| Film Screening + Q&A | 26 November 2024 | 15:15 | Leiden University
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of a selection of short films by designer and researcher Simone Niquille\, of Amsterdam-based technoflesh Studio. The screening will be followed by a Q&A & discussion moderated by Dr. Rodrigo Ochigame.   \n\nModel Homes \n\n\n\nHousehold robots rely on computer vision to navigate their environment\, but a camera does not know what it is looking at. In order to recognise and understand the spaces and objects it encounters\, a robot’s vision technology needs to learn about its future home. To this end\, large datasets of 3D files are assembled into model homes\, which ultimately are unable to represent the complexity of life itself. This gap between models of reality and the lived experience is referred to by scientist and philosopher Alfred Korzybski as ‘the map is not the territory’. If the map is not the territory\, are the datasets the home? This talk speaks of the absurd and precarious state of the training datasets of home robots\, using them as a way of entering a wider discussion about cohabitation with technology and an obsession of sorting the world into categories. \n\n\n\nThe following films will be screened: \n\n\n\nHomeschool (2019) 13min \n\n\n\nSorting Song (2021) 7min \n\n\n\nBeauty & The Beep (2024) 15min \n\n\n\n  \n\nSimone C Niquille is a designer and researcher. Through her studio technoflesh\, she produces films and writing that explore computation as the new optics. Her work examines vision technologies\, the images they generate and the worlds they construct – from computer vision and 3D animation to computational photography and synthetic training datasets. Her work advocates for non-binary technology and against the use of machine learning as a tool to validate and instrumentalize assumptions and reduce reality.   \n  \nDr. Rodrigo Ochigame is an assistant professor affiliated to Leiden University’s Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology. Their work investigates atypical models of computational rationality\, including nonclassical logics originating from Brazil\, nonbinary Turing machines developed in India\, and information science frameworks emerging from Cuba.
URL:https://www.recntr.nl/events/household-robots-training-datasets-the-politics-of-categories-film-screening-qa-26-november-2024-1515-leiden-university/
LOCATION:P.J. Veth 1.01\, Nonnensteeg 3\, Leiden\, Leiden\, 2311 VJ\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Screening
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SUMMARY:Inas Halabi| Open Studio Residency | 12 December 2024 | 19:00 | 1646 Den Haag
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to invite you to join us for the final event of artist-researcher Inas Halabi’s residency. The two-month residency was a collaboration between ReCNTR and 1646. During this final event Inas will share aspects from her ongoing research and work for her film The Right of Return. \n  \nInas’ research focuses on the erasure of the remains of demolished Palestinian villages\, that have now been turned into Israeli national parks or nature reserves. She explores how the planting of pine trees serves as another means of confiscating land and preventing the return of the original inhabitants\, and the invisible violence that continues to occur in each location as the foreign trees grow. During the event\, Inas will be presenting elements from this current film project  and recent research\, including sound recordings from the locations of demolished Palestinian villages that have now been turned into Israeli national parks or nature reserves. \n  \n  \nImage credit: Inas Halabi
URL:https://www.recntr.nl/events/inas-halabi-open-studio-residency-12-december-2024-1900-1646-den-haag/
LOCATION:1646\, Boekhorststraat 125\, The Hague\, 2512 CN\, Netherlands
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SUMMARY:Climate Confessional: how can we talk differently about the climate crisis? | 29 January 2025 | 17:00 | Rijksmuseum Boerhaave (Leiden)
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with Pathways to Sustainability at Utrecht University\, ReCNTR would like to announce this public event as part of our upcoming Lorentz Center workshop Unlocking the Imagination: Art-Science for Radical Transformation.   \n\n\n\n  \nThe event will feature a lecture and Q&A followed by drinks.   \n  \n\nLorentz Lecture: Climate Confessional \n  \n\n\n\nIn this lecture we will look at The Climate Confessional\, an interactive performance that invites participants to reflect on their role in narratives about the climate crisis. Originally presented at two climate change conferences in 2023\, this intervention reimagines the space of a confessional booth as a site for shared contemplation about major societal challenges we face. Join us for a conversation between the creators of the Climate Confessional and several artists and scientists who have experienced it. \n\n\n\nThis event is part of a week-long Lorentz workshops Art-Science for Radical Transformation\, which brings together diverse artists\, humanities scholars\, and social scientists to reimagine the joint role of art and science to collectively respond to the climate crisis. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker/Team \n\n\n\nEkaterina Volkova is an artist and interactive media designer exploring critical making as a response to large-scale political issues. Together with Julien Thomas\, she created The Climate Confessional. They have been working with the Dutch national climate delegation since early 2024 to explore dramaturgies of international climate negotiations. Their work looks into the scripts\, spaces\, and processes that produce (dis)agreement\, and seeks strategies for alternative climate futures.   \n\n\n\nCosts: free with a museum ticket or student card/Museumcard or you can purchase a museum ticket at the museum desk. \n  \nTickets and further details \n  \nImage credit: Ekaterina Volkova 
URL:https://www.recntr.nl/events/climate-confessional-how-can-we-talk-differently-about-the-climate-crisis-29-january-2025-1700-rijksmuseum-boerhaave-leiden/
LOCATION:Rijksmuseum Boerhaave\, Lange St. Agnietenstraat 10\, Leiden\, 2312 WC\, Netherlands
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SUMMARY:ReCNTR Graduate Student Remix | 10 April 2025 | 14:00 | Living Lab 1B.01 Leiden
DESCRIPTION:We would like to invite graduate students (resMA\, MA and PhD)\, thinkers\, tinkerers\, and anyone curious about exploring new ways of engaging with research to join us for a unique\, playful re-interpretation of the traditional social mixer. This event is all about creative collaboration and multimodality. Bring one artefact from your research—whether its an idea\, an image\, a text\, or something else—and re-mix it in collaboration with fellow participants. Don’t worry if you’re new to multimodal approaches—this event is designed to give you a hands-on taste of how different perspectives and methods can come together and enrich your work.  \nYou will also have the chance to meet the ReCNTR team\, learn about our exciting initiatives\, and become part of the growing network of researchers\, artists\, and thinks in Leiden. Whether you’re experienced with multimodal research or just curious to try something new\, this event offers a welcoming space to connect\, explore\, and experiment with ideas. \nWe can only accommodate a limited number of participants (max 12) therefore\, we encourage you to express your interest by emailing us at recntr@fsw.leidenuniv.nl by no later than April 2nd. Participation is on a first-come\, first served basis. \n  \nAfter the two-hour session\, we’ll head to Stadscafè Van der Werff for drinks\, where you can continue the conversation and build lasting connections. Come for the creativity\, stay for the multimodal fun! \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.recntr.nl/events/recntr-graduate-student-remix-10-april-2025-1400-living-lab-1b-01-leiden/
LOCATION:Living Lab 1B.01\, Pieter de la Court Building\, Wassenaarseweg 52\, Leiden\, 2333AK\, Netherlands
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SUMMARY:In the Making #12: On Algorithmic Cultures:  Prediction\, Simulation\, and the Incalculable Model| 22 May 2025|19:00|West\, Den Haag
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to be part of this session of the public series In the Making\, a joint collaboration between The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) of Leiden University and Art Institute West Den Haag. This session will be presented by Femke Herregraven\, and include Dr. Marleen Stikker and ReCNTR’s own Dr. Francesco Ragazzi as discussants. \n\nPrediction\, Simulation\, and the Incalculable Model\nThrough a series of recent works\, this talk explores the modelling and financialization of the future. It reflects on how\, rather than rejecting technology\, technological tools can be repurposed to experiment with image making when perception collapses\, to escape the categorisation of the model\, and how to speak when language no longer suffices. How can the entanglement of language\, code\, matter\, and predictive structures become a new protocol for image and art making? Underpinning this talk is the question of artistic research method and what a method means within a state of vertigo and disorientation. \n  \nAbout the Presenter \nFemke Herregraven’s work explores the effects of abstract value systems on landscapes\, ecosystems\, historiography\, and daily life. Her research into the interaction between financial markets\, risks\, and the physical world forms the foundation for her iterative sculptures\, drawings\, films\, and hybrid installations. Over the past decade\, she has focused on financial\, geological\, and climatological self-organizing systems that both shape and disrupt daily life. A recurring theme in her work is the financialization of the future as crisis\, which she examines through catastrophe bonds as a set of potential distributions of risk and catastrophe. Her work employs textual\, computational\, and gestural languages to reflect on how these contemporary future models shape the experience of reality and the very ground on which it stands. Herregraven is an alumnus of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam (2017-2018)\, and obtained the Creator Doctus title at the Sandberg Institute in 2024. She was shortlisted for the 2019 Prix de Rome\, awarded the Evens Arts Prize 2023 and the Theodora Niemeijer Prize in 2025. \n  \nDiscussants: \nDr. Marleen Stikker is founder and executive director of Waag Futurelab in Amsterdam. Waag Futurelab reinforces critical reflection on technology\, develops technological and social design skills\, and encourages social innovation. Marleen leads the trans-disciplinary team of designers\, artists and scientists\, utilising Public Research and Key Enabling Methodologies to empower people to participate in the collective design of open\, fair and inclusive futures. Marleen founded ‘De Digitale Stad’ (The Digital City) in 1993\, the first virtual community introducing free public access to the Internet in Amsterdam. In 2021 she was appointed professor of practice by HvA\, the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. \nDr. Francesco Ragazzi is associate professor in International Relations at Leiden University (Netherlands) and co-director of ReCNTR. Francesco has directed and produced several documentary films. In his current collective research project SECURITY VISION Francesco explores\, through quantitative\, qualitative\, film and coding methods\, the security uses of computer vision in areas such as biometric surveillance\, social media content moderation and border control. \n  \nRegister for a free ticket here \n  \nImage Credit: Femke Herregraven\, exhibition at Radius (Delft\, 2025)
URL:https://www.recntr.nl/events/in-the-making-12-on-algorithmic-cultures-prediction-simulation-and-the-incalculable-model-22-may-20251900west-den-haag/
LOCATION:West Den Haag\, Lange Voorhout 102\,\, Den Haag\, Zuid-Holland\, 2514 EJ\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Talk + Gaming Workshop: Zoo as a Future Heritage|28 May 2025|14:00|Leiden University
DESCRIPTION:SIMMR (Student Initiative for Multimodal Methods in Research) is delighted to announce its first student-led event: a book talk/presentation by designer Terezie Štindlova\, followed by a participatory gaming workshop by artist-researcher Yun-Pei Hsuing. \n  \nEvent Description: \nThis combined talk and gaming workshop explores participatory art designed to engage the public in reimagining zoos for a better future. Zoos\, as cultural and political constructs\, have complex origins rooted in imperialism and power\, and their heritage narratives are often shaped by anthropomorphic and human-centred top-down decisions. By diving into participatory modes of conducting design research\, this lecture-workshop seeks to incorporate speculative thinking into communal acts of creation for reimagining zoos and their cultural heritage as constitutive of human-animal relations. \nIn the first part\, invited artist and designer Terezie Śtindlova will provide a firsthand introduction to her captivating book\, Zoo Index\, which examines the (un)relevance of zoos and how they shape our gaze towards nonhuman animals\, to ourselves and one another. Following her presentation\, artist-researcher Yun-Pei Hsuing will lead a board-game workshop to develop design research methods where participants will explore alternative and speculative futures for zoos through various gameplay strategies. \n  \nTimetable: \n14:00 – 15:00: Lecture by Terezie Štindlová: The Making of Zoo Index: An Introduction\n15:00 – 15:15: Break (Tea and snacks)\n15:15 – 16:30: Gaming Workshop by Yun-Pei Hsuing \n  \nLocation: \nJohan Huizinga Building\, Room 0.11 (Journalism Lab)\, Leiden University (Doelensteeg 16. Leiden) \n  \nAbout the Artists: \nTerezie Štindlová is a designer\, one half of a non-workaholic studio Day Shift Office\, a concrete office chair maker and a founder of the ZOO Index project. Her research dives into the (un)necessity of zoos in contemporary society in connection with current office culture\, shedding light on the power dynamics of labour and control exerted through (human) design. She graduated from Werkplaats Typografie in 2023 and is currently based in Amsterdam. \nBorn in 1985 and raised in Taipei\, Taiwan\, Yun-Pei Hsiung is a graduate of the Royal College of Art in Design Products. His practice focuses on creating tools and participatory workshops\, using social sculpture to inspire collective action. His work frequently engages with themes of public space\, social housing\, neo-capitalism\, and Taiwan’s geopolitical landscape. Additionally\, Yun-Pei utilises drawing as a medium for self-expression\, exploring and expressing his queer Asian identity. \n\n\n  \n\n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.recntr.nl/events/talk-gaming-workshop-zoo-as-a-future-heritage28-may-20251400leiden-university/
LOCATION:Leiden University\, Wassenaarseweg 52\, Leiden\, 2333 AK\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Talk,workshop
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SUMMARY:Installation: How to Un(name) a Tree | Artist Talk + Panel Discussion + Walking Tour | 6 June 2025 | 15:15 | Hortus Botanicus\, Leiden
DESCRIPTION:SIMMR (Student Initiative for Multimodal Methods in Research) is excited to announce the second student-led event this semester\, organised by MA student/researcher Xinrong Hu: the launch of artist Adong Zheng’s site-specific installation How to Un(name) a Tree\, followed by an artist talk\, panel discussion with curator Augustina Cai and walking tour by Xinrong Hu. Visitors are warmly invited to participate in this afternoon of shared dialogue\, critical reflection\, and collective (un)learning across artistic\, scientific\, and cultural perspectives. \n  \nEvent Description:  \n  \nArtist Andong Zheng’s long-term project How to (Un) Name a Tree investigates the contested identities of three morphologically similar pine species: Pinus taiwanensis (Taiwan red pine)\, Pinus luchuensis (Ryukyu pine) and Pinus hwangshanensis (Huangshan pine)\, the last of which is native to Anhui\, China\, Zheng’s own place of origin. In 2024\, he encountered a Huangshan pine sapling growing in the “Chinese Garden” of the Leiden Botanical Garden. As a foreign species confronted with a different institutional and cultural audience\, the work takes on a new “face”. The botanical garden\, as a historical symbol of scientific modernity and imperial knowledge systems\, becomes both the site and subject of intervention. \nThus\, as a gesture of orientation and disruption\, Zheng is developing a site-specific viewing installation around the Huangshan pine sapling. Visitors are invited to reflect on the tree’s taxonomic displacement and iconographic significance and its cultural\, environmental\, and geographical entanglements. Within this framework\, the garden becomes a stage where global scientific knowledge and localised\, indigenous understandings collide. The installation challenges epistemic universalism by unsettling the neutrality of Latin taxonomy and revealing its ideological foundations. Furthermore\, by inviting viewers to engage in the embodied act of seeing\, it further questions whether “unlearning” dominant systems is itself sufficient\, or whether it risks reproducing new hierarchies under the guise of correction. \n  \nLocation:  \nOrangery\, Hortus Botanicus. Rapenburg 73\, Leiden. \n  \nBios:  \n  \nHU Xinrong is currently an MA student in Art and Culture at Leiden University. As a writer and former editor at The Art Newspaper China\, her practice focuses on questioning the narrative and representational relationship between text and visual art\, as well as exploring alternative ways of engaging with art beyond institutional frameworks. Her writings have been published in ArtReview\, LEAP\, Ocula\, and other publications. \n  \nAndong Zheng (b. 1992\, Hefei\, China) lives and works in Rotterdam\, Netherlands. He received his MFA in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design in 2019 and is continuing his studies in Photography & Society at the Royal Academy of Art\, The Hague. Working primarily with lens-based media\, Zheng seeks to open up new ways of knowing that traverse rationality. He often starts from small traces such as a shadow\, a marginal detail in an archive\, or an unusual flower. These elements become points of departure for unraveling broader systems. Trained in engineering\, he learned to focus on micro details within rigid causal frameworks\, but this very training led him to question the larger structures they sustain. His work has been exhibited at numerous international institutions and galleries\, including Centre régional de la photographie Hauts-De-France (France)\, the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown University (USA)\, Times Museum (China)\, Ames Yavuz (Singapore)\, and ClampArt (USA). He was shortlisted for the 9th Huayu Youth Award (2021) and the 10th Jimei x Arles Discovery Award (2024). His work has also been featured in publications such as The Routledge Companion to Photography\, Representation and Social Justice\, British Journal of Photography\, and Chinese Photography. \n  \nAugustina Cai is an independent curator and researcher\, based in Den Haag(NL) and Wuhan(CN). She holds degrees in both Global and Comparative Philosophy and Art History from Leiden University. After pursuing a Mathematics degree at Wuhan University\, she transitioned to work as an assistant curator for numerous contemporary photography and art exhibitions. She also worked at the Institute for Provocation (IFP)\, an alternative art space in Beijing that specialises in artist residencies and public programs for the community. She co-initiated Decolonial Being Network(DBN)\, aiming to reveal the coloniality of contemporary beings within everyday life\, to imagine a decolonial future. Her other curatorial interests include: 1) The concept and activities of play as an alternative way of being\, liberating us from the trap of rationality\, arbitrariness\, and enslavement; 2) alternative medical culture and its implications on different modes of perceiving and understanding human/nonhuman bodies.
URL:https://www.recntr.nl/events/installation-how-to-unname-a-tree-artist-talk-panel-discussion-walking-tour-6-june-2025-1515-hortus-botanicus-leiden/
LOCATION:Hortus Botanicus\, Leiden\, Rapenburg 73\, Leiden\, Leiden\, 2311 WJ\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Talk,Walking Tour
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SUMMARY:My Want of You Partakes of Me| Film Screening + Discussion | 20 June 2025 | 18:45| Filmhuis Den Haag
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to host a screening of this film by Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner in conjunction with Filmhuis Den Haag. The screening will be followed by a discussion and Q&A moderated by filmmaker and researcher Bo Wang.     \n\nMy Want of You Partakes of Me \n(2024) 54 mins – by Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner   \n\n\n\nThe film interrogates digestion as the fundamental condition for being in the world\, a process of physiological\, psychological\, spiritual\, literary and political dimensions. Multiple storylines trace the poetics of incorporation as a matter of metamorphosis and decay\, the philosophy of matter and imperial conquest\, industrialisation and annihilation\, poetry and parenting\, love and citation. \n\n\n\nThe film was awarded the Jury Special Mention New: Vision Competition\, CPH:DOX. \n \n\nAbout the filmmaker\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Sasha Litvintseva is a London-based artist\, filmmaker\, and writer whose work since 2018 has been shaped by her ongoing collaboration with Beny Wagner. Her films have screened internationally at major festivals including Berlinale\, Rotterdam\, CPH:DOX\, RIDM Montreal\, Punto de Vista\, and Edinburgh International Film Festival\, among many others. \n\n\n\nHer work has also been showcased at prominent art institutions such as Tate Modern\, ICA London\, Museum of the Moving Image (NY)\, Seoul Mediacity Biennale\, and Mumok Vienna. She has been the subject of retrospectives at venues like Courtisane Festival\, UnionDocs NY\, and e-flux Screening Room. \n\n\n\nSasha’s films have received numerous international awards\, including the Sylvestre Award at IndieLisboa and Best Short Documentary at the Guanajuato Film Festival\, and have been longlisted for an Academy Award. Her work is distributed by Square Eyes and the Criterion Channel\, and has been featured in Cahiers du Cinéma\, Sight & Sound\, Frieze\, and Filmmaker Magazine. \n\n\n\nShe holds a BA in Fine Art from the Slade School of Art and a PhD from Goldsmiths. Currently a senior lecturer in film at Queen Mary University of London\, she was awarded the 2024 Philip Leverhulme Prize. Sasha is the author of Geological Filmmaking (2022) and co-author of All Thoughts Fly: Monster\, Taxonomy\, Film (2021)\, with writing also appearing in e-flux and Environmental Humanities. \n  \n\n\n\nDiscussant\nBo Wang is an artist\, filmmaker\, and researcher based in Amsterdam\, as well as a member of ReCNTR’s Advisory board. His works have been exhibited internationally\, including at the MoMA\, Guggenheim Museum\, Garage Museum\, CPH:DOX\, IFFR\, Visions du Réel\, LUX\, Open City Documentary Festival\, Courtisane\, Seoul Mediacity Biennale\, Sonic Acts\, Eye Filmmuseum\, Sesc_Videobrasil\, Sharjah Film Platform\, among others. He is a recipient of major international awards\, including New:Vision at CPH:DOX\, Golden Dove at DOKLeipzig\, and Best Doc Short at Sharjah Film Platform. He received a fellowship from the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar in 2013\, and was an artist-in-residency at the ACC-Rijksakademie from 2017 to 2018\, as well as at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore in 2016. He is a PhD candidate at ASCA\, University of Amsterdam. \n  \nPurchase your tickets here   \n   \n\n\n\nImage Credit: Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner My Want of You Partakes of Me (2024)
URL:https://www.recntr.nl/events/my-want-of-you-partakes-of-me-film-screening-discussion-20-june-2025-1845-filmhuis-den-haag/
LOCATION:Filmhuis\, Spui 191\, Den Haag\, 2511 BN\, Netherlands
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SUMMARY:Yugoslavia: How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body + Slet 1998| 5 February 2026 | 19:30 | Netherlands Film Academy Amsterdam
DESCRIPTION:ReCNTR and the Master of Film at the Netherlands Film Academy are happy to present a double screening of Marta Popivoda’s work\, followed by a Q&A with film critic Neil Young. \nYUGOSLAVIA\, HOW IDEOLOGY MOVED OUR COLLECTIVE BODY\n2013\, 62 min\, Serbia / France / Germany \nSynopsis. The film explores how ideology performs itself in public space through mass performances. The author collected and analyzed film and video footage from the period of Yugoslavia (1945 – 2000)\, focusing on state performances (youth work actions\, May Day parades\, celebrations of the Youth Day\, etc.) as well as counter-demonstrations (’68\, student and civic demonstrations in the ‘90s\, 5th October revolution\, etc.). Going back through the images\, the film traces how communist ideology was gradually exhausted through the changing relations between the people\, ideology\, and the state. \nDirectors statement. This research-based essay film offers a very personal perspective on the history of socialist Yugoslavia\, its dramatic end\, and its recent transformation into several democratic nation-states. Experience of the dissolution of the state\, and today’s “wild” capitalist reestablishment of the class system in Serbia\, are my reasons for going back through the media images and tracing the way one social system changed by performing itself in public space. (Marta Popivoda) \nSLET 1988\n2025\, 22 min\, Germany / France / Serbia \nSynopsis. In Slet 1988\, dancer Sonja Vukićević (74) moves through socialist-modernist spaces\, her body is an archive of the last mass performance in Yugoslavia. Her gestures echo past rhythms and present realities\, intertwining with a 1988 teenage girl’s diary to reveal the shift from socialist collectivism to rising individualism while a new national collective body is creeping in and will soon shape the future of the country. \n  \n  \nMarta Popivoda\nMarta POPIVODA (1982\, Serbia) is a Berlin-based filmmaker\, video-artist and researcher. Her work explores tensions between memory and history\, collective and individual bodies\, as well as ideology and everyday life\, with a focus on antifascist and feminist potentialities of the Yugoslav socialist project. She cherishes collective practice in art-making and research\, and for several years has been part of the TkH (Walking Theory) collective. Popivoda’s first feature documentary\, Yugoslavia\, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body\, premiered at the 63rd Berlinale and was later screened at many international film festivals. The film is part of the permanent collection of MoMA New York\, and it’s featured in What Is Contemporary Art?\, MoMA’s online course about contemporary art from 1980 to the present. Her work has also featured in major art galleries\, such as Tate Modern London\, MoMA New York\, M HKA Antwerp and Museum of Modern Art + MSUM Ljubljana Popivoda received the prestigious Berlin Art Prize for the visual arts by Akademie der Künste Berlin and Edith-Russ-Haus Award for Emerging Media Artist. Her new feature documentary Landscapes of Resistance will premiere in the Tiger Competition of the IFFR 2021. \nNeil Young\nNeil Young is a film-critic and curator/programmer based mainly in Sunderland (UK) and Vienna. His reviews and festival reports appear regularly in The Hollywood Reporter\, Sight & Sound\, Tribune (London)\, MUBI Notebook and other international outlets. Formerly director of the Bradford International Film Festival (2011-15)\, he works as a consultant advising several European film-festivals including the Viennale.
URL:https://www.recntr.nl/events/yugoslavia-how-ideology-moved-our-collective-body-slet-1998-5-february-2026-1930-netherlands-film-academy-amsterdam/
LOCATION:Amsterdamse Hoogeschool voor de Kunsten\, Markenplein 1\, Amsterdam\, 1011 MV\, Netherlands
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SUMMARY:Choreographies of Power and Counter-Power: The Socialist Body in Yugoslavia\, a conversation with filmmaker Marta Popivoda | 6 February 2026 | 15:00-17:00 | Leiden
DESCRIPTION:Following the screening of Marta Popivoda’s films\, Yugoslavia: How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body and Slet 1998 on Thursday 5th February evening at the Netherlands Film Academy (Amsterdam)\, we invite you to join us the next day for an afternoon of conversation and collective thinking. \nThis talk and conversation is dedicated to sharing and discussing Marta Popivoda’s earlier and more recent research\, with a particular emphasis on her long-term engagement with the political life of bodies in socialist Yugoslavia and its aftermath. The talk will focus on “Choreographies of Power and Counter-Power: The Socialist Body in Yugoslavia\,” taking the films as a starting point to reflect on how ideology was staged in public space through mass performances\, youth work actions\, and state celebrations\, as well as how these forms were later mirrored and challenged in protests and counter-mobilisations. \nSpeaker\nMarta POPIVODA (1982\, Serbia) is a Berlin-based filmmaker\, video-artist and researcher. Her work explores tensions between memory and history\, collective and individual bodies\, as well as ideology and everyday life\, with a focus on antifascist and feminist potentialities of the Yugoslav socialist project. She cherishes collective practice in art-making and research\, and for several years has been part of the TkH (Walking Theory) collective. Popivoda’s first feature documentary\, Yugoslavia\, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body\, premiered at the 63rd Berlinale and was later screened at many international film festivals. The film is part of the permanent collection of MoMA New York\, and it’s featured in What Is Contemporary Art?\, MoMA’s online course about contemporary art from 1980 to the present. Her work has also featured in major art galleries\, such as Tate Modern London\, MoMA New York\, M HKA Antwerp and Museum of Modern Art + MSUM Ljubljana Popivoda received the prestigious Berlin Art Prize for the visual arts by Akademie der Künste Berlin and Edith-Russ-Haus Award for Emerging Media Artist. Her new feature documentary Landscapes of Resistance will premiere in the Tiger Competition of the IFFR 2021.
URL:https://www.recntr.nl/events/choreographies-of-power-and-counter-power-the-socialist-body-in-yugoslavia-a-conversation-with-filmmaker-marta-popivoda-6-february-2026-1500-1700-leiden/
LOCATION:Herta Mohr Building\, Witte Singel 27a\, Leiden\, 2311 BX\, Netherlands
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SUMMARY:Work-in-Progress Workshop with Visiting PhDs | 17 March | 16:00-18:00 | Leiden [RSVP]
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our next Work-in-Progress Workshop with three visiting doctoral students–Maevia Griffiths\, Riccardo Arena\, and Carla Alba Pulido–who will each be presenting their ongoing practice-based PhD research. The workshop is free and open to the public (RSVP required) and attendees are invited to provide feedback after each presentation. \n  \nProgramme: \n16.00 – 16.05: Welcome \n16.05 – 16.40: Maevia Griffiths (University of Copenhagen) \n Practicing Revolutionary Hope: Reincorporation Spaces of Former FARC-EP Combatants in Colombia – a critical visual inquiry \n+ Feedback \n16.40 – 17.15: Riccardo Arena (Brera Academy of Fine Arts) \nThe Zone of Howling Parallels: Florilegium of Non-Cartographic Representations of Space \n+ Feedback \n17.15 – 17.50: Carla Alba Pulido (Universidad de Granada / Leiden University) \nMapping memory through the senses in La Vega de Granada \n+ Feedback \n17.50 – 18.00: Closing Remarks \n  \nProject descriptions + bios can be found here. \n  \nDate: 17 March\, 2026 (Tuesday)\nTime: 16:00 – 18:00\nLocation: Agora (formerly Pieter de la Court) Building | Room 0B.06\nWassenaarseweg 52\, Leiden \n  \nEveryone is welcome to attend and provide feedback – RSVP here. \nTo present your work at future work-in-progress sessions hosted by ReCNTR\, pleas e-mail us at recntr@fsw.leidenuniv.nl with “Presentation Work-in-Progress” in the subject line\, and mention your (ongoing) project title + a short description + bio in the e-mail.
URL:https://www.recntr.nl/events/work-in-progress-workshop-with-visiting-phds-17-march-1600-1800-leiden-rsvp/
LOCATION:Pieter de la Court Building\, Wassenaarseweg 52\, Leiden\, 2333AK\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Talk,workshop
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