Building a House Without Bricks

Building a House Without Bricks is a Harvest Festival consisting of a public programme and exhibition hosted by damdam – a collective of collectives brought together by de Appel Curatorial Programme & Sandberg Instituut temporary master Lumbung Practice – which seeks to cultivate methods of collective organisation in times of crisis. The festival is formulated around three central questions: How to organise? How to distribute labour and resources? How to share what we produce?

The exhibition at de Appel is the second act, after a three day public programme at OT301 in June, where we invite you into the house, turning to the physical and material structures inside. Acknowledging the limits of an exhibition, we focus on objects and their potential for resource re-distribution through transvestment (transferring resources from one value system to another). The objects are commissioned by the different collectives within damdam, who shared instructions to collaboratively build a house that reflects current needs in sustaining collective practice. With these objects, we build a house that can transvest resources into each collective’s local context, using a framework that balances production budget and fees with their needs.

Building a House Without Bricks seeks to create a house for our collectives through these infrastructures and objects, to continue practicing, gathering, and learning from each other. Through this festival, we celebrate the learnings we have gathered over the past two years together in the Lumbung Practice programme, and share them with our wider community.

More information about the exhibition will be announced here soon!