pos & Echobox at NAP+
12th to 14th of september 2025
a three-day programme in collaboration with Echobox during the NAP+ art fair, hosted and broadcast live from the pos studio. listen back for interviews, music and a panel discussions here.
Day 1: International Relations
Host: Sarah Saleh
Echobox resident and co-founder of BBTCOR (bring back the chill out room), Lebanese born Sarah Saleh will guide us through the day with music selections, interviews and panel moderating, drawing on her own experience of international residencies.
London Calling: Harlesden High Street (Talk)
Jonny and Sophie will talk about Harlesden High Street and minor attractions, by showing a duo presentation of works by Angela Nguyen and Antonio Lechuga.
Echoes of Nusantara w/ Kulamang (Talk & DJ set)
Echobox resident, Kulamang, talks heritage, representation and the contemporary sonic dialogues between Nusantara, its diaspora, and the global community as represented on his Echobox show and through the Serempun Kolektif.
From Residency to Roots: Rijks Academie Alumni (Panel)
A panel of Rijks Acadamie Alumni discuss uprooting for residencies - the process of moving your life and country for art, including Pakistan born, Ul Haq. He works with sculptural forms that question their own inherent content, making, and object hood. Currently a recipient of “Kunstenaar Basis” grant from Mondriaan Fonds, Netherlands and resident artist at Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunst.
Between Vision and Form: An Interview with Thierry Oussou
As an international exhibiting artist, Thierry Oussou from Lumen Travo Gallery will tell us all about the art of global exhibiting.
Day 2: Art Spaces
Host & music selections: Victor Kasiga
Victor Kasiga is a multidisciplinary artist and performer working in visual art, music, and film. As an integral part of interdisciplinary art space, Possibilities Open Studio, he will guide us through a day steeped in this theme.
Sara and David from NAP+ (Talk)
NAP+ co-founders, Sara Lang and David van Doesburg, are the owners of galleries LANG and Stigter van Doesburg in Amsterdam, talking everything that goes in to selecting a space for such a project.
Sara Berton (Talk & DJ Set)
Over the past seven years, Italian-born and Amsterdam-based Sara Berton has deeply explored electronic music in all its textures and shades. Also, she is an independent curator and the manager of Amsterdam-based gallery Lumen Travo.
Where Art Takes Place: OSCAM, De Oude Kerk & WiiLL!E Creative Space (Panel Talk)
How does the location of an art space influence its programming, visitors, and the art itself?
Leia Amerding is a curator, creative producer, speaker, and moderator whose work focuses on race theory, African contemporary art, and amplifying the voices of young visual creators of color.
Mariette Döller is the director of Oude Kerk : the oldest building in Amsterdam (1306) and one of the largest commissioners of (inter)national artists in the Netherlands, specializing in in situ/site-specific and new work.
WiiLL!E Creative Space is an artist-run initiative located in Zaandam. Founded by gallerist Marian van Zijll Langhout, WILLIE is a creative hub offering space for four artist studios.
Ashley Zelinskie (Talk)
Conceptual artist Ashley Zelinskie joins to explore the intersection of art and astronomy, sharing insights from her collaborations with NASA and the European Space Agency.
Day 3: Words & Art
Iulia Aionesi (Host & Music)
In her artistic and research practice, Iulia Aionesi works with voices, soundscapes, and archives to reconstruct marginal stories of migration and belonging, through accounts of collective memory.
From Ritual to Rites w/ Harry Castle (Talk & DJ set)
Harry Castle is a sonic artist working at the intersection of experimental music, sound design, field recording, and performance art. Fascinated by mysticism his work draws inspiration from the driving forces of the dark and unexplored.
Writing as Archive and Access: Music, Art & Film w/ Isabel Walter, Haoran Xia, Hannah Pezzack (Talk)
Isabel Walter is a curator based in Amsterdam. She is particularly interested in art which expands the technical and conceptual boundaries of photography, moving images, and new technologies.
Haoran Xia is a multidisciplinary, research-based essay writer born in China, and currently based in Amsterdam. His writing investigates contemporary cinema, intimacy, agency, and politics within queer studies.
Hannah Pezzack is a writer, editor, and music journalist whose work explores sound art, underground club culture, and the politics of listening. She is currently a curator at Sonic Acts, where she edits the annual Ecoes magazine, and her writing has appeared with VICE, Resident Advisor, and Zweikommasieben, among others.
Medium: Words Where Text Is the Material w/ Annabelle Binnerts (Talk)
Words are central to the murals, textile works and publications of Annabelle Binnerts, both as a subject and a material. She understands them as shapeshifters that can be bent, formed and shaped, much like a sculptor works her clay.