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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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