We are excited to announce a joint venture between The Institute of Cognitive Prosperity and NDNMK Solutions! In celebration of this new partnership, there will be a free showcase of some of our newly developed methods for cognitive maximisation and transcorporeal hemisphere synchronisation.

Inviting you for a gathering of improvisations, philosophies and uncertain manifestations designed to charge the varia space with layers upon layers of fun. Between these layers we might find both practical and theoretical questionings concerning technology, art and especially sound making, challenging experiences of time, representation and love.

A calm, friendly workshop about jailbreaking your e-reader, a way to remove restrictions and take back some control over a device you already own.

The Platform For Extratonality invites you to an evening full of cozy drones to sink into. We provide the ideal setting: pillows, blankets, sleeping mats and four long concerts by various extratonal drone artists.

In this session, we will look into DIY methods of making medical tools more accessible, demystify the way they work, make it easy to repair and source materials and keep track of data for personal use.

Doodle Dabble is back! With story books, casset tapes, and a recorder!

Join us for a workshop on writing in the margins using Marginalia an open-source and free, collaborative article annotation and publishing platform. This platform foregrounds non-linear, messy, entangled knowledge creation using annotations, hyperlinks, scribbles, and more. It is for those seeking online space for communal learning, wild experiments in reading and writing, and intervening into the text to make room for themselves in it. The workshop will be led by Arran Lyon, a creative technologist/coder, computer scientist, hacker and Senka Milutinović, a designer, researcher, writer. Both are a part of the ARK collective and have an interest in storytelling and knowledge creation with technology.

The workshop is a public moment of the artistic research "Voicing complexities", which questions gender classifications through sound. As a starting point, we will listen to public sound libraries and data sets. We will observe their categorisations and the narratives they reinforce. Later, together with Mitsitron and Ester Venema, in a safer facilitated space, we will record (our own) sounds of exclusion: sounds that fail, refuse, reject, resist the performance of the norm. Using recorders, phones, laptops and various prompts, we will collect different perspectives, positions, stories, experiences to listen to together later. These recordings can initiate a counter-archive of sounds: A reference point for listening and sound making that challenges binary structures.

How do flowers, plants and animals think about karaoke, ceramics and newspapers? During this two-day multispecies festival, the platform for extratonality explores different ways to give other species a place within the creative field.

Get to know the Common Dirt of Charlois with the help of the Common Dirt Map. From the Arie Berkelaarpad to the Shared Grounds behind the Gouwplein; you can find them all on the map!

During this Colonial Infrastructures worksession we will continue investigate systems of commodity, processes of labour and assembly, and global import-export relationships through the intimate object of hair.

Hello! during a 3 months Special Issue, XPUB investigated the questions asked by the Declarations artistic research:\ on the poetic materiality of the CSS web-standard and its visual-political-cultural impact on our practices. On the 18th of April we welcome you at Varia to present our works!

Boricua artist Karla Claudio hosts a talk, film screening and workshop about Caribbean dye plants and their colonial histories.

This workshop will begin with a presentation by Naima Cornelia on the methods behind the story, what questions to ask, where to find those answers, and how. and then a hands-on session where we will discuss different ways to tackle a research question. We start by seeing what information we can find online, try some google-search techniques, see what we can dig up and go from there.

Join us for a relaxed evening where musicians and writers create side by side. The idea is simple: some of us will write, some of us will make sounds. Writers can work on something old, start something new, or even write to the music. Musicians are free to jam together or experiment with sounds.

The Platform Of Extratonality invites you to a two-day celebration of graphic music. On Saturday, March 15, we explore the interaction between illustration and music at Roodkapje.