"Total let go cathartic healing pleasure activist transformative release dance party"

Come dance and celebrate the results of the third Ploegendienst, in which Moni Zwitserloot, Hussel Zhu and the Feministische Handwerkpartij have been cooperating. Apart from various etching experiments and seemingly out of nowhere, they developed a music video that functions as a releaser for hidden and oppressed energies. This release can be seen as a critique of normative and patriarchal structures, but also as a way to reclaim and even celebrate ageing, screaming, and orgasmic ugliness. Apart from this, you are also very welcome to join the various workshops.

We are letting go of the traditional idea of an exhibition with a clear beginning and end. Instead, this year we are organizing shifts of artists, writers, and collectives. Each season, activities are brought together in a festive Gather Together, driven by artistic and social experiment. For this program, we are collaborating with the artist collective Sunflower Soup (SFS) and program maker Lenn Cox. SFS created the program H0Ha and Lenn Cox developed Time Out / Tune In. The Hospitality Club provides educational and public activities alongside the program. You can find more about H0Ha and Time Out / Tune In here.

Program Autumn Gather Together (all events are free)

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
16:00 | Kleurendal
Walk through Klarendal along a selection of electrical boxes designed by Harmen Liemburg for Plaatsmaken. The project, commissioned by the Municipality of Arnhem, is a collaboration between Plaatsmaken, residents, local organizations, and the artist. Informal drinks at Plaatsmaken afterwards.
17:00 | Workshop Cannibal Cats by Sunflower Soup
17:30 | Equinox Soup

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
12:30 – 14:30 | Workshop Blues & Rage by Periphery Center
During this workshop we dive into the language, colour and sound
of political disappointment and anger, by reading, writing, listening & cyanotype printing. You can find more information on the workshop here.
12:30 – 14:30 | Drop-in workshop MONOMILL by Hospitality Club
Monoprinting workshop
14:30 | Cosy Food Break
15:30 | Opening: Total let go cathartic healing pleasure activist
transformative release dance party
17:30 | Autumn Soup, cocktails and more Partying!

ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS

Moni Zwitserloot is a writer and performer. Key elements in their work include physicality, transformation, and community. Being strange, muck, or weird is celebrated through the use of gore elements and magical realism. Current obsessions: insects, fungi and bodily fluids.

Hussel Zhu is a visual artist, short fiction writer, and researcher. In his printmaking, he often uses the image of a dancing frog—inspired by
the Japanese ink painting Birds, Beasts, and Human Play, and the animal paintings of Bada Shanren—where animals satirize those in power.

The Feministische Handwerkpartij is a political feminist artist movement
that is dedicated to studying, repairing, speaking, patching up,
unlearning and mending. It is initiated by visual artist Emmeline de
Mooij and performance director Margreet Sweerts.

Periphery Center is a collective for artistic practice and shared study.
Here, we meet to inspire one another and co-create the reality we
dream of through bookmaking, graphic design, publishing, curating,
art and writing. Periphery Center consists of Leana Boven, Pelumi
Adejumo, Yusser Al Obaidi, Jeanine van Berkel en Yessica Deira.

For our small-scale educational projects, we collaborate with Hospitality Club, consisting of Mirka Farabegoli and Krista Burger. These projects involve local primary schools, young people, children, ArtEZ students, MBO students, and neighborhood residents.

With thanks to the Mondriaanfonds and the Municipality of Arnhem.