for the listen to live here
10 July 2026
a sociality-making
workshop
a sociality-making
workshop
‘dis/orienting the archive’ with shy*play
Friday 10 July
16:00 to 19:00
Address: WG Plein 881, Amsterdam
Registration link
for the listen to live here workshop series comes to its final session of the season. For this gathering, we move with the archive.
Rather than approaching traces of past events as repositories of what has been, we will explore how traces from previous sessions can continue to generate encounters and set new events into motion. We approach the archive as a site of ongoing world-making, where traces are not representations of a finished past but continue to invite new relations, gestures, and ways of being together.
Together, we will encounter materials from across the workshop series and experiment with techniques of spacingmaking, movement, sound-making, and storytelling. Through prompts for doing and improvising together, these materials become occasions for making connections and composing collectivity.
The session takes place within Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh’s installation, developed as part of Frictional Conversations. The session is indebted to, and learns from, the methodologies that inform Yasmine’s artistic practice and her approach to the archive as a living, relational practice.
We will conclude by sharing a light dinner, in-formed by practices around food and eating that have emerged throughout the workshop series.
Participating in this session requires no prior experience or previous participation.
Covid testing
To help everyone feel comfortable and safe, please take a Covid test before the event; if you have symptoms, please do not attend and let us know so we can offer your spot to someone else. Tests and masks will be available at the venue.
Accessibility
· If I Can’t Dance is on the second floor, unfortunately, without elevator access. There is also a narrow staircase inside the space.
· Two gender neutral WC on the first floor
· Language: English
Please reach out if you want a more detailed description of the space at shy.into.play@gmail.com
Flyer design: nor akelei
Drawings featured on the flyers were created by participants in a workshop led by Sam Metz at ATD in Amsterdam, as part of the “What If… Neurodiversity?” symposium in January 2025
The project is kindly supported by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Pictoright Fonds and If I Can’t Dance