Harvest Festival
May 30 – June 1
From the 30st of May till the 1st of June GROND will host part of the Harvest Festival organized in collaboration with damdam – an interconnected web of collectives emerging from de Appel’s Curatorial Programme, the Lumbung Practice Temporary Master Programme at Sandberg Instituut and Gudskul’s Collective Study Programme in Indonesia.
Building on the 25 years of Lumbung kindred experiments leading to lumbung – documenta fifteen, for the first time this year we will gather with collectives to practice sustainable economies, to think about our collective infrastructures, shared practices, common resources and values. One of our values is caring about the process, rather than focusing on the production of artworks or exhibitions as isolated outputs. We turn toward each other and the relations that bind us.
Our curatorial approach is embedded in the politics of friendship, interdependence, trust, collective joy as well as engagement withAmsterdam and our localities. Alongside mapping our resources and needs in our ecosystem, we build a common ground and think about potential seeds to plant. Out of this process, several self-organised working groups emerged around common urgencies: community, land, economy, printing, publishing, pedagogy, documenting and archiving. In the Harvest Festival 2025 we share our understanding of lumbung practice and ongoing processes through nongkrongs (gatherings), workshops, screenings, discussions, dinners and parties. What kind of future can we envision if we reorient our work around sharing, communal rhythms, and solidarity?
The program at GROND:
Friday 30 May, 10.00 – 17.00
Mubadele
Workshop and Talk
Through the idea of Mubadele we aim to create a system where knowledge, skills, and materials circulate beyond the constraints of money. By mapping our existing resources, and by organising discussions on funding, this gathering is part of a longer-term vision: to develop strategies for economic resilience that are rooted in solidarity, not scarcity. With Elke Uitentuis, Colin Roustan and Alina Lupu.
Exhibition Opening – Everywhere is War
Friday 30 May, 17.00 – 21.00
Through the making of stop motion animations the collectives Er Sell Reality and SSMG (Sudanese Stop Motion Group) gave shape to the feelings of guilt that they are facing because of leaving their beloved land and relationships behind. Everywhere is War is a process-oriented presentation that shows how both collectives have been experimenting with the animation techniques and exploring the battlefields under their skin.
During the opening there will be dinner from 5 to 7pm cooked by Mohamed Alnoor,
and from 9pm a radio performance by Marc Nukoop, Ivo Bol and Wytze Minne de Swart.
The exhibition is also open on 31 May and 1 June from 12 to 9pm.
Saturday 31 May, 18.00 – 21.00
Don’t Stop Talking About Exile: The Voice of Women TV Show + Congo Solidarity Dinner
Screening/discussion + Dinner convened by We Sell Reality & Parole de Femmes
Parole de Femmes TV Show (The Voice of Women TV Show) is a collaborative short-film led by women from the Emmaüs community. The screening will be followed by a talk with the creators of the film, followed by a solidarity dinner for Congo. Guest speakers Eric Bimule and Aime Kabena will inform us about the situation DRC.
The exhibition is also open on 1 June from 12 to 9pm.
Through the making of stop motion animations the collectives We Sell Reality and SSMG (Sudanese Stop Motion Group) gave shape to the feelings of guilt that they are facing because of leaving their beloved land and relationships behind. Everywhere is War is a process-oriented presentation that shows how both collectives have been experimenting with the animation techniques and exploring the battlefields under their skin.
Image: Work in progress – stop motion animation – We Sell Reality i.s.m Nina Karim van Oort