Enter/Public/Space & Enter/Public/Stage
Enter/Public/Space & Enter/Public/Stage
Enter/Public/Space
Exhibition: 3 September – 4 October 2026
Enter/Public/Stage
Performance Festival: 3 – 6 September 2026
Which bodies are allowed to move freely and unhindered through the city? How can groups of people change cities through organisation, solidarity and movement? During a performance festival and exhibition in ROZENSTRAAT, a diverse group of artists will explore these questions and many more besides through videos, readings, performances, tours and workshops.
The 2002 artwork AmsterdamREALTIME by Esther Polak, Jeroen Kee en Waag Futureweb will serve as the starting point for the Enter/Public/Space exhibition and the Enter/Public/Stage performance festival. For this piece, participants 'drew' an interactive map of Amsterdam using early GPS systems. Created by people's movement through the city, this map becomes a residue of an embodied performance, revealing how users appropriate and rewrite the city from within. The festival and exhibition engage in critical dialogue with AmsterdamREALTIME and consider the presence of different bodies in public spaces. It aims to acknowledge the shifting nature of their presence and the norms of their acceptance in different contexts by tracing their choreography of power and vulnerability.
Enter/Public/Space and Enter/Public/Stage investigate the performativity of the body, presence in public spaces, and the political dimensions of urban design and technology. Bodies in public spaces are read, judged, and regulated through and 'oriented' around unevenly distributed infrastructural conditions. Some movements feel natural, but others encounter resistance, friction, or exclusion. The program pays special attention to mobility and surveillance. At a time when freedom of movement, visibility, and control are becoming increasingly unequal, the festival offers an artistic platform for the critical, sensory, and public exploration of these urgent issues.
The participating artists use public space as both stage and subject for the development of artistic, technological, and socio-political projects. The outdoor space becomes a realm for play, research, and provocation, in which existing boundaries (physical, legal, technological) are tested and questioned.
Curated by
Sanneke Huisman and belit sağ
With works by
Noor Abed, Cyan Bae, Black Heritage Tours, Çağlar Köseoğlu and Saverio Cantoni, Giulia Damiani, Mona Hatoum, Jan Robert Leegte, Mapping Solidarity for Palestine, Marina Orlova, Esther Polak, PolakVanBekkum, Pegah Tabasinejad, Geo Wyex
List of works:
Esther Polak, AmsterdamREALTIME, 2002, performance installation, produced in collaboration with Jeroen Kee and Waag Futureweb
Noor Abed, Keeping Together in Time, 2016, video
Cyan Bae, Welcome to Set, 2026, video installation
Giulia Damiani, Apologia, 2026, performance
Mona Hatoum, Roadworks, 1985, video
Çağlar Köseoğlu and Saverio Cantoni, ‘our love is terroristic’,‘throw a stone: Ramallah looks violet from the night of justice’, reading/performance
Jan Robert Leegte, Wanderer, 2025, installation
Mapping Solidarity for Palestine, 2026, installation and workshops
Marina Orlova, Human.VPN, 2026, performance
PolakVanBekkum, Guiding Voices, 2022, performance
Pegah Tabasinejad, Entropic Fields of Displacement, 2024, video installation
Geo Wyex, Nobody Wade Never Too Much, 2026, performance
Image: Pegah Tabassinejad, Entropic Fields of Displacement, 2024, video still.
Enter/Public/Space
Exhibition: 3 September – 4 October 2026
Enter/Public/Stage
Performance Festival: 3 – 6 September 2026
Which bodies are allowed to move freely and unhindered through the city? How can groups of people change cities through organisation, solidarity and movement? During a performance festival and exhibition in ROZENSTRAAT, a diverse group of artists will explore these questions and many more besides through videos, readings, performances, tours and workshops.
The 2002 artwork AmsterdamREALTIME by Esther Polak, Jeroen Kee en Waag Futureweb will serve as the starting point for the Enter/Public/Space exhibition and the Enter/Public/Stage performance festival. For this piece, participants 'drew' an interactive map of Amsterdam using early GPS systems. Created by people's movement through the city, this map becomes a residue of an embodied performance, revealing how users appropriate and rewrite the city from within. The festival and exhibition engage in critical dialogue with AmsterdamREALTIME and consider the presence of different bodies in public spaces. It aims to acknowledge the shifting nature of their presence and the norms of their acceptance in different contexts by tracing their choreography of power and vulnerability.
Enter/Public/Space and Enter/Public/Stage investigate the performativity of the body, presence in public spaces, and the political dimensions of urban design and technology. Bodies in public spaces are read, judged, and regulated through and 'oriented' around unevenly distributed infrastructural conditions. Some movements feel natural, but others encounter resistance, friction, or exclusion. The program pays special attention to mobility and surveillance. At a time when freedom of movement, visibility, and control are becoming increasingly unequal, the festival offers an artistic platform for the critical, sensory, and public exploration of these urgent issues.
The participating artists use public space as both stage and subject for the development of artistic, technological, and socio-political projects. The outdoor space becomes a realm for play, research, and provocation, in which existing boundaries (physical, legal, technological) are tested and questioned.
Curated by
Sanneke Huisman and belit sağ
With works by
Noor Abed, Cyan Bae, Black Heritage Tours, Çağlar Köseoğlu and Saverio Cantoni, Giulia Damiani, Mona Hatoum, Jan Robert Leegte, Mapping Solidarity for Palestine, Marina Orlova, Esther Polak, PolakVanBekkum, Pegah Tabasinejad, Geo Wyex
List of works:
Esther Polak, AmsterdamREALTIME, 2002, performance installation, produced in collaboration with Jeroen Kee and Waag Futureweb
Noor Abed, Keeping Together in Time, 2016, video
Cyan Bae, Welcome to Set, 2026, video installation
Giulia Damiani, Apologia, 2026, performance
Mona Hatoum, Roadworks, 1985, video
Çağlar Köseoğlu and Saverio Cantoni, ‘our love is terroristic’,‘throw a stone: Ramallah looks violet from the night of justice’, reading/performance
Jan Robert Leegte, Wanderer, 2025, installation
Mapping Solidarity for Palestine, 2026, installation and workshops
Marina Orlova, Human.VPN, 2026, performance
PolakVanBekkum, Guiding Voices, 2022, performance
Pegah Tabasinejad, Entropic Fields of Displacement, 2024, video installation
Geo Wyex, Nobody Wade Never Too Much, 2026, performance
Image: Pegah Tabassinejad, Entropic Fields of Displacement, 2024, video still.
