Het Nieuwe Instituut Online #6
During the temporary closure of Het Nieuwe Instituut, a weekly newsletter provides an update on our online programming and a selection of our online content. This web page is based on Newsletter #6 - 30 April 2020.
30 April 2020
Spirit strategies
As people all over the world are forced to quarantine, self-isolate and socially distance from others because of the coronavirus pandemic, the need for rituals of community, solidarity and belonging is greater than ever. Over the coming months, Het Nieuwe Instituut will present an online programme in the spirit of the installation G/D THYSELF: Spirit Strategy on Raising Free Black Children, which The Ummah Chroma has set up in the building in the Museumpark. The programme's ritual performances, meditations, workshops, poems and videos will be inspired by a variety of spiritual and cultural traditions.
Listen to Spirit Strategies through Performative Sound On 15 April, Live Spirit Strategies through Performative Sound was broadcast worldwide in the spirit of G/D THYSELF. Listen back to the music performances, poems, meditations and blessings from the USA, Mexico, Kenya, Curaçao, the UK and The Netherlands (Rotterdam). In collaboration with online radio station Operator.
Live From G/D THYSELF: Join a workshop or meditation Every Friday, from 11am to 12 noon, artists and performers will demonstrate various 'spirit strategies' in the G/D THYSELF installation, which you can experience at home through a livestream, supported by their explanations. The programme starts Friday 8 May with a special performance and workshop in collaboration with HipHopHuis. Every other week, the installation will be opened for communities in Rotterdam to use as a space for their own rituals. Made possible by Gemeente Rotterdam.
Reflections Inspired by G/D THYSELF, a series of reflections, stories and spirit strategies by are sent out by post by writers, poets and designers - a way to reflect not alone but in community, albeit remotely. The recipients are invited to share their own reflections on paper, upload them to the web magazine and send them to others. Artist Nash Caldera makes the first contribution: the poem Ana-lize that she performed during Spirit Strategies through Performative Sound. Sign up here if you would like to receive the Reflections by post or email.
YouthDem with Concrete Blossom Five young designers, filmmakers, artists and musicians from Rotterdam are are working on a series of video pieces and public programmes in the YouthDem programme, in collaboration with Concrete Blossom and Het Nieuwe Instituut, in which they explore the tension between rituals and identity formation in the western world. In a livestream event on 18 June, the group will discuss the process, with space for (poetry) readings. The whole can be followed via the stream that will be broadcast from G/D THYSELF.
Watch the Opening of G/D THYSELF The opening of the installation G/D THYSELF took place on 25 January with members of The Ummah Chroma and set designer Lauri Faggioni and a series of rituals and various dance and music performances. The initiation, by architect and theorist Dele Adeyemo, was a common thread weaving together performances by artists including The Empress (Aissa Traore), Nash Caldera, OTION (Guillermo Blinker), Giovanni Maisto Ferreira and Nevill Mitchell Martins. Watch the film by Bouba Dola, a collaboration with IFFR.
View the six lunar meditations by artist Tabita Rezaire.
The Sandberg Instituut shows a series of recent routines and current forms of work and dreams by designers and artists during social distancing.
Every week, a different designer creates the Online web magazine cover in response to the question: What's occupying you now?
A look back at The Collective Space talent development programme.
Het Nieuwe Instituut enters the living room on Wednesday 6 May with a home edition of FamilyFest.
Check out our previous weekly selections on the themes of Data Matter, The Hoodie and Who is We?