Category: event

If in the light of recent events, you've been curious to look into alternative social media that doesn't run on an ad-based model, or is a big-tech owned walled garden, or if you are curious to meet other people who have accounts on the fediverse and beyond, please feel welcome to join us on the 7th of February where we'll explore some alternatives to dominant social media and get started sharing in a more convivial manner.

A performative script reading by Antye Guenther and Philippine Hoegen. What started as a flirtatious and whimsical exercise in collective script writing, developed into a collaborative exploration of our loves, fears and desires regarding work and research…

On January 16 we will start with Breaking Down Whiteness, an awareness raising study group about internalised racism. It will be a peer-to-peer working space for and from white people, where we will work with Layla F. Saad's book “Me And White Supremacy” and follow the learning framework set out by the book over the course of 7 weeks.

A Performance + Open Book with Q&A with the participation of: Amy Gowen (HumDrumPress) as wrangler and some klankschool comrades: mitsitron and Stephen Kerr as co-conspirators and improvisers and Joseph Knierzinger making us sound good

The end of the year arrives soon, but the end of extratonality is nowhere in sight. To celebrate another year full of extratonal milestones we once again organize a celebratory cabaret with a fine selection of extratonal artists!

Our final Game and Watch series will conclude in a movie night, where we will be happy to host you for a screening of "Walang Rape sa Bontok" (Bontok, Rapeless) from Habi Collective..

During this Game & Watch we will collectively play two contrasting videogames to consider how Indigenous narratives are shared and considered in gamified realms. We will examine the representation of Indigenous peoples as well as the roles they are cast in the videogames 'Never Alone' and 'Sid Meier's Colonization'.

We want Varia to be used by people who live in the neighbourhood. Is it already happening but we've never met you all together, we'd love to have a moment to formalise how this can work for everyone. With conversation and food we want to set up ways to organise and coordinate the access for Varia. How can we help each other across our extended solidarity networks? What are our responsibilities to one another and how can we communicate clearly? This is a gathering to share our expectations and needs for this space that we (can) all use.

Join us for a new episode in the extratonal infrastructure series - the extra in Rotterdam's cultural life. Be on time and it is fine!

The times of Cold War seem long gone, yet they significantly impact present cultural ideologies that repeat and evolve in contemporary creative production. This evening gathering is the starting point of a series that tries to expose the influence of the Cold War across present day narratives, technologies and geopolitics.

Whine, Dine and Decline is a dinner and conversation around the local foodscape of the Netherlands and it's potential future in the context of climate change.

In continuation of the Miscalculating Risk: Policing Technologies event, in this session we will start a collective research thread around supermarket surveillance technologies together with Sanne Stevens. During this session, we want to explore all these sides of AI shoplifting technologies; the promises, the drivers and motivations and ideological assumptions behind the technology, but also how it works out in practice, who is impacted and in what ways.

What is the role of the vernacular in sound knowledge and modes of organisation? Knowledge and information organisation are deeply powerful acts, which relate to how we envision the world. This event further develops an ongoing thread about the ways the vernacular (re)orients language and technology and generates other forms of knowledge sharing and organising. Khamoosh is a participatory artistic research project that mediates conservation and restoration by exploring the sonic heritage of Iran through recorded sounds of everyday life; sounds less heard or even silenced. Golnoosh and Maryam, two members of Khamoosh, will begin by presenting how Khamoosh as a process-based project operates, and share insights to their own roles within the Khamoosh community.

November is home to multiple interventions by The Platform For Extratonality. During this intermediate music event we welcome QOA and Primeiro, two artists with a tendency to enthrall through elemental improvisations.

The Homemade Computer Club is a gathering space for those curious about computers.

Get to know the Common Dirt of Charlois; from the neglected patches of soil around the platan trees to the community-run street gardens. During the autumn excursion we will investigate how nature finds its way through the urban planning of Rotterdam.

We are moved to invite you to our 3rd Extratonal Special: sound is political. For this edition we ask you to be present with your political ears, to feel with us what it means to have a voice that is (not) heard, to notice which voices are not present in the room, to desire together social transformations, to listen to less heard histories, to pinch our autonomous bubbles, to be touched by sound waves and connect with them consciously.

In 2023, Film Lab Palestine had to postpone their Palestine Cinema Days festival. Instead of celebrating cinema in Palestine, they brought Palestine to the world in 86 cities, across 139 venues, spanning 41 countries. November 2nd marks the day the Balfour Declaration was signed, and in an effort to amplify Palestinian voices, we are joining Palestine Cinema Days Around The World and are screening Naila And The Uprising directed by Julia Bacha​.

"Listening to the Cracks" is a research project that explores the often-inaudible sounds of urban nature. Together with Matthias Hurtl and Yoana Buzova, participants will engage in a listening session in Gouwplein, Oud-Charlois, to uncover voices and frequencies that are typically overlooked or dismissed as nuisances.