They said yes! 
Line up: Larasati, ​​​​​​​DJ h, ​​​​​​​DJ Matcha, ​​​​​​​Dj Curiquingue, ​​​​​​​Inconvenience Store, ​​​​​​​Negar Mahmoudi, ​​​​​​​SPIN

You are invited to the wedding of friendship, celebrating kinship and deviant love. A collective commitment of all of us who decide to trust, share, organize and resist together. Join us and say YES to protect our community legally, economically, politically and commit to care about each other. An evening full of performances, DJ’s and tender dancing.

Building a House Without Bricks is a public program and exhibition which seeks to cultivate methods of collective organising in times of crisis, with perspectives on hosting as shared responsibility, care as infrastructure, and resources as something to be held in common.

damdam is a constellation of collectives engaged in translocal exchanges of knowledge and resources, using art institutions as a platform to learn from and support each other.

Dresscode:
you’re getting married, you have to outshine everyone !

Free tickets
If you would like a free community ticket, please message us on Instagram @damdamist.

All proceeds will go to We Sell Reality, an artist collective based in Amsterdam making products, installations and creating performative interventions in public spaces. Most members came here as refugees and are in precarious document situations.

Artists:

Larasati is a Berlin-based DJ and force to be reckoned with, she blends multiple genres, such as deconstructed club, techno, electro, and trance together to create stories through her curated sonics.

DJ h (Hakob Machkalyan), an architect and multidisciplinary artist, participant of Typography collective, jazz legend and 4hillax events organizer in Yerevan, Armenia.

DJ Matcha (Gerardo Contreras) is a legendary Mesoamerican conceptual artist, lover of collectivity and waxed people. Through his wit, he has managed to capture curious ears with low-pretension music: cumbiatón sonidero and reggaetón champagne. Based between Mexico City and Amsterdam.

Dj Curiquingue is the bastard latinoamerican root behind the decks! We follow the damp footsteps of colonizers who, 500 years ago, set course toward what they were not looking for. In our hands, a hybrid and impure cutting searches for ground, taking root where wealth and well-being are supposedly protected by passports and borders. Tattooed in the ear, a deep sonic memory, blurred by time re-emerges, glowing through electric cables, colorful lights and speakers.

Inconvenience Store is a multimedia artist duo based in Rotterdam, consisting of İpek Şahin and Urvee Kulkarni, with a background in community facilitation. Their work focuses on themes of migration, food, (sustainable) textile practices and the inconvenient/absurd/sometimes mundane parts of life.

Negar Mahmoudi is an Iranian mover, dance researcher, and sociology graduate whose work explores bodily agency, movement, resistance, and the reclaiming of the female body within restrictive social contexts. Her movement journey began in childhood in Iran and later developed through underground dance communities, where she navigated the tensions between artistic passion, social norms, and academic life. She founded Dancing Saturdays in Tehran as a safer gathering space for dancers and movement practitioners. Negar has been engaged in projects and performances in Iran and Belgium, collaborating with artists across disciplines to connect embodied research, personal memory, and collective movement.

SPIN is a collective of friends who engage in community building, organising and exploring different forms of study. Recently, we have been looking into self-publishing through print, radio and food as a collective practice through sharing and caring for a garden in Rotterdam Zuid together.