During Research Month, seven artists will be coming together to explore the themes of Grief and Listening. You can find us at ‘the Punt’ (the round windows on the first floor of the ATD building by the stairs) where we will share resources, thoughts, and workshops, but also, most importantly, time. We will slow down together. We will hang out without aim or purpose. We will welcome mess, inarticulacy, and overwhelm. Anyone is welcome to join us.

At times when we are not in the Punt, please feel welcome to spend time there exploring the installations and resources on offer. You will find a blackboard in the space that will tell you what is happening when. And in addition, there will be places to rest, to measure exhaustion levels, to listen, to read, and to be.
Alongside this, the ATD library will have a special display of books relating to Research Month, including a reading list of books and items recommended by this group in relation to grief. And there will also be a cosy corner of the library where you can listen to conversations, sharings, and other audio offerings related to grief, listening, and healing.

January 9th till February 1st 2024 
Location: De Punt

Participating artists:

• Kai Hazelwood is a transdisciplinary disabled artist, educator, event producer, and public speaker raising the profile of bi+/queer and BIPOC community issues through art projects, community events, writing and public speaking. 
• Paulina Trejo Mendezis an artist, writer, lecturer and researcher with a PhD on Development Studies. Their work crosses disciplinary boundaries. Some of the topics they work on are: decolonial feminism, decoloniality, Latin American feminist art and decolonizing healing. 
• Phoebe Osborne is an artist living and working on the unceded lands of the Lenape people currently referred to as Queens, NY. As a multi-hyphenated thinker and practitioner in the fields of visual arts and dance, Phoebe is forever returning to the means by which artistic praxis can enact queer events. Their work with performance, video, sound, and sculpture traces the errant paths of queer life, engaging urgent questions about queer modes of care.  
• Rajni Shahhas been making performance since 1999. They are queer, quiet, trans non-binary, and a feminist killjoy. They care about listening and gathering as creative and political acts. They are currently a Researcher with the ATD Lectorate, and tutor on the THIRD programme at DAS.  
• RaoniMuzho Saleh is a choreographer/performer based in Amsterdam. His work is influenced by fugitivity, a revolutionary movement that shapes his artistic vision. By dancing through the gender spectrum, Raoni has developed a unique movement practice that emphasises “becoming other”, a continuous state of incompleteness. 
• Sofia Araujo de Ornelas dos Santos Pintois a performer, physio, teacher, and researcher. She is exploring and trialing ways of grasping what hinders and what fosters movement and creative practice. Sofia is the coordinator for Health &Performance and a physical fitness teacher at the ATD. 
• S†ëfan Schäfer is an Amstedam-based speculative designer and artistic researcher and started in June 2023 his professional doctorate at DAS Research. ‘Breaking Apart Together: Performing speculative design with dying mountains and glaciers’. He investigates what role speculative design can play in enabling humans and non-humans to face and respond to the death of glaciers and mountains, linking speculative design to performance and commemorative ritual.