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queering sound stuff
programmer @extratonal @mamarotterdam
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email: xaidamichelakou[at]gmail.com

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The funded artist — does that creature exist?

My dearest reader, I’ve been asking myself and other people that question, and for many years I was convinced that such a dream is only possible for a very small group of privileged artists, and definitely impossible for someone like me.

I started my artistic path around 10 years ago, and since then, I keep meeting real human artists who manage to find funding and keep developing their art practice. It is not an easy road; it’s wildly precarious, but it’s possible.

For this zine, I interviewed two of them: Mitsitron, a sound artist, musician and curator; and Hannes, a Vienna-based video artist and experimental musician whose work explores the relationship between individuals, modern societal structures, and technology. I put together my research and their advice here and hope it will be useful for others like us.

‘The Funded Artist’ zine is now available in my web shop:
13 EUR; 22 pages; 7 chapters collecting years of experience; 1 short list with funds in Europe; and a few more words about how it was made.

Comment FLOWERS if you want me to send you the link as a DM.

Otherwise, get it from the link in my bio.
Let’s grow some flowers 🌼

With the advice given by @mitsitron and @jdb_records_vienna 💙

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🦋friday 2 october at Varia *Stories from the Bodies* will come together with Writing Machines Ensemble at Extratonal Special # 10 !

🦋very happy to make this evening together with these beautiful musicians & poets & to share with you! thank you for the invitation @extratonal !

hope to see many of you there ⚡️🦋🍎

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*Stories from the Bodies* invite you to a place where music & poetry, words & sounds in their various shapes, shades, melodies, distortions & languages, emotions, urgencies and expressions intertwine and resonate opening up into one space, bringing you along into this ever-transforming breathing world of vulnerability, connection, resilience & shared hopes, stories and dreams. The act Stories from the Bodies will bring together six Rotterdam-based poets and musicians, connecting their creative paths, letting poetry & music embody each other through the moment shared with the bodies present.

*Stories from the Bodies* with poetry & music by:

Katherine Marie (creator/writer/actress)
Mustapha Eaisaouiyen (housing activist, poet)
Mitsitron (sound artist, musician, program maker)
Luke {Lisa} Deane (artist chameleon, composer, vocalist)
Froggr Arafat (multidisciplinary artist, activist)
Dorota Márföldi- Matejová (musician-performer-poet)

🦋more details see link in bio🦋

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𝘐𝘬 𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘬 𝘥𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦𝘭 𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘶𝘸𝘦𝘯, 𝘮𝘢𝘢𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘵 𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘫𝘥 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘥.

Kunstenaars Manju Sharma @manjusharma_art en Ro Buur @ro_buur ontmoeten elkaar voor een gesprek over de verhalen achter hun werk.

𝘛𝘰 𝘒𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩 - 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 van Manju vertrekt vanuit foto’s uit haar familiearchief en onderzoekt hoe de gedwongen migratie van haar familie tijdens de splitsing van India in 1947 nog altijd doorwerkt in volgende generaties. Door de foto’s te vertalen naar schilderijen, ontstaat een beeldtaal voor herinneringen waar nooit woorden aan zijn gegeven.

Ro laat zien hoe momenten van samenzijn met vrienden en familie, en persoonlijke rituelen, kunnen helpen om emoties los te laten. In 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 legt hen spontane momenten van intimiteit vast, terwijl 𝘛𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘥 voortkomt uit een persoonlijk ritueel.

Nog vier dagen om 𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓯𝓸𝓵𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓱𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓫𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴 te zien! De tentoonstelling is nog te zien t/m zondag 19 juli, met werk van Manju Sharma, Ro Buur, Dafni Melidou @dafni.melidou Tianyi Zheng @zheng_tianyi en Chupan Atashi @chupan_atashi

Wo-zon, 14:00-19:00

Programmamaker: Mitsitron @mitsitron

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📚🚀 Join us on 18 July for the launch of the publication 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝑰’𝒍𝒍 𝑩𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒕𝒐 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒉 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒀𝒐𝒖

This riso-printed zine grew out of 𝐶𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑘, a residency where disabled and chronically ill artists and makers came together over several months in 2025. Together, they explored what more accessible, slower, and gentler ways of making and working can look like.

The publication brings together writing, artworks and reflections by residents Flora Valeska Woudstra @flora.valeska, Ari Ralph @trashylilboi, Yoanna Buzova @oyoanaa, Ashley Nkechi Igwe @ashleynkechi and members of the MaMA team (Felicitas Lenz @felice.lenz, Charli Herrington @charli.her, Giu Di Dato @pouise and Maike Hemmers). It reflects on topics including crip time, care, interdependence, and the many ways we create, learn, and imagine together.

We’d love for you to celebrate this collective publication with us!

Programme
🕛 12:00-12:30: Walk-in
📚 12:30-13:00: Welcome and readings by the residents
💬 13:30-14:00: Conversation with program maker Mitsitron @mitsitron about their current exhibition, 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘, which brings together images and stories that move between personal and political grief.

The publication was developed with the guidance of Yara Veloso @yara__com__y and Anna Bierler @annauuannauua and printed at Kiosk @kioskrotterdam

😷 This is a masked event. Masks will be available at the entrance.

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This weekend @south_explorer_rotterdam Exhibition - Made of Many- artworks by the residents of the W1555 community. Drop by and enjoy the vibe! @wolphaert1555
1. Kate Bjork (Bram Komen) - Kate bjork’s landing. A neverending moment in neon. // Saturday 12:30 continuous performances throughout the day and evening! People are welcome to bring their musical tools. @thekendamaqueen
2. Birds Without Gender @birdswithoutgender birdswithoutgender.com
3. Dario D’Aronco @dariodaronco
4. Joshua Thies - RAAR, an online audio streaming platform with a focus on sound art, vocal experiments, unique instrument builds and other noise celebrates 10 years of live radio making with a 3 hour show Sunday afternoon. raar.mixlr.com/recordings
5. ieke Trinks - ‘Pillow Person’ performance for Recht op Rust (Right to Rest), in solidarity with homeless Rotterdammers, February, 2024, photo Eden Calgie. ieketrinks.nl @ieke_trinks
6. Lobke van Aar lobkevanaar.nl @lobkevanaar
7. Petar Tuskan petartuskan.com @petartuskan
8. Rojin Tavassoli @rojintavassoli
9. Shardenia Felicia - Exploring the enduring legacy of African spirituality in contemporary culture—a tribute to ancestral knowledge, resilience, and cultural continuity. shardeniafelicia.com
10. Sal & Mits - the members of FilmDak present their third collective filmmaking project. A film that unfolds through a chain of partial transmissions, ERROR.prproj embraces error as both method and subject. @tot_artproject @smiranda.es @mitsitron
11. Thijs Kelder - by reimagining the traditional craft of stained glass through contemporary techniques, iconography, and graphic forms, he creates works that balance humor with sharp social commentary and dark undertones. thijskelder.nl @thijs_kelder
12. Ulufer Çelik - Roots, wet-felted wool, 2024. Tendrils of time and space, the roots of forest spirits wander through the cosmos. They take form only when the veil grows thin—a fleeting glimpse beyond duality. ulufercelik.com @ulufercelik
13. Yoana Buzova - a repair witch and magnetic tape aficionado. Her works invite brief encounters and shared fictions, attending to the overlooked, the broken, and the quietly resistant. www.oyoana.com

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What a joyful and sunny opening it was! ☀️

Last Friday, we celebrated the opening of What Follows the Heartbreak by our program maker Mitsitron. It was an evening filled with art, wonderful people, and a great atmosphere.

Keep visiting us throughout the summer. Our showroom is the perfect spot to find some shade during hot and sunny days. 🔥🔥

Thank you to everybody who visited the exhibition and shared the evening with us. Special thanks to the Municipality of Rotterdam and the Mondriaan Fund for their support, and to Mojo Maté for the refreshing drinks. 🍹

The exhibition is on view through July 19.

Featuring works by:
Ro Buur @ro_buur
Chupan Atashi @chupan_atashi
Dafni Melidou @dafni.melidou
Manju Sharma @manjusharma_art
Tianyi Zheng @zheng_tianyi

📸Klarka Batek @klarka.batek

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“Dutch waves are kept on a leash
at a safe distance from people’s living rooms
on the other side of a gigantic dune
dike
wall.
The North Sea is cold grey storms
hysterical tides
future
or ancient
catastrophic floods.
It’s hard to feel love here
to feel the
liquid
chain of cellular life
that connects me to the first bacterium
more recently,
to my mother
who was my first warm sea
—the Palace of the Child
they call it in Vietnam
before revealing herself as warm flesh
when the nurses smacked fluid out of my lungs
wiped the blood off my face
and I knew for the first time non-aquatic being.”

from Blue Womb, one of the 21 pieces (including the song we improvised using the texts written by audience members while they ate the swamp-in-a-bowl that was lovingly created by Sarah Blake AKA Swamp) that composed the two-hour performance Waterwake, written and performed by Valentina Vella in confluence with co-performers and co-creators Luke {LISA} Deane, Mitsitron, and Stephen Kerr. Sound by Vincent Denieul, lighting by Maurice Specht. Photos by @matteomontaldo

This project was supported by an I&V grant from @cbkrotterdam and co-produced with @buitenplaatsbrienenoord

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*** AMRO26 - Day 4 - Sat, 16 May ***

Join us for the final day of AMRO26!

Enjoy a full day of lectures, performances, workshops, and exhibitions!

And in the evening: get ready to celebrate with us at the nightline @stwst_linz!

—> don’t forget to check out the exhibitions at @maerz.at, @bb15_artspace and splace

Graphics by @pira__tin

#ArtMeetsRadicalOpenness #BecomingUnreadable #AMRO26

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𝗢𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟮, 𝗠𝗮𝗠𝗔 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸. 💧

Grief can change the way you move through the world. It can live in the body, return unexpectedly or reshape the way you relate to others.

What follows the heartbreak creates space for the messy, painful and transformative experiences that can emerge through loss, rupture and change. Through video, photography, installation and painting, the artists in this exhibition approach grief not as something to solve, but as something to experience together.

The works move between lost family ties, queer joy, memory, resilience and political realities. They ask: what does the body remember? And how do we listen to it?

Join us for the opening on May 22, from 6-9 PM! ✨

With work by:
Ro Buur @ro_buur,
Chupan Atashi @chupan_atashi,
Dafni Melidou @dafni.melidou,
Manju Sharma @manjusharma_art,
Tianyi Zheng @zheng_tianyi

Program maker:
Mitsitron @mitsitron

Campaign image by Xiaoyuan Gao @sdfggvfvj

What follows the heartbreak runs from May 22 until July 19, 2026.

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You are invited to WATERWAKE at Buitenplaats Brienenoord, this Sunday the 19th of April at 6pm!

The evening consists of a water-themed dinner by SWAMP (a swamp in a bowl!) a new performance about water that contains storytelling, music, and songs co-created with Luke {LISA} Deane, Stephen Kerr, Mitsitron, and you (we will improvise a song based on audience input) and lastly we will have a watery DJ set by Vincent Denieul as DJ Boshoer.

The festivities start at 6pm and go on until they kick us out of the island! Ticket link in bio (it’s important to get it now, so SWAMP can make enough food for everyone!)

Supported by CBK Rotterdam (Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam) @cbkrotterdam

If you want you can even come spend the whole day on the island, the donation-based Buitenplaats café is open on weekends and the island is a delightful place.

More info about the performance: How does our attitude to water affect the way we love, fear, and relate to each other? And what do the Tikkie app and the Oosterscheldekering have in common? Through voice, electronics, modular synths, guitar, and piano, WATERWAKE moves through improvised songs, sound pieces, and personal stories that circle infrastructures of water and feeling.

#cbkrotterdam #cbkrotterdammaaktmogelijk #buitenplaatsbrienenoord

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For the past year I have been expanding my singing voice with @resister.rotterdam , an open collective based at @worm.rotterdam that gives femme/queer and non-binary musicians a space to create sound in a non-hierarchical context. We have explored the possibilities of creating a contemporary, electronic-based opera where we navigate the collective writing of a dramaturgical piece and new possibilities for collective sound composition. Thank you to @instrumentinventors and @o.festival.rotterdam for inviting us to present the first drafts of our opera last year. I’ll give a little introduction to our process at @rewirefestival tomorrow Thursday April 9th at 16.30 at West Den Haag. Join me if you can to hear what we have been up to🧚🏼‍♂️

You can find some rehearsal tracks on this link 👉🏽 https://archive.org/details/resister_202601

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Today we listen back to the final, gruelling, wonderful, chaotic NINE HOURS of the 25 Hour Radio Relay, from all the way back in January 2026. From 2pm we’ll hear:

YourVoicesIhear - *Katrina Brown - *Seirén - *somker - Lily Azur - *Hannah Kemp-Welch - Stephen Kerr + Mitsitron - *Sean Roy Parker - *Alex Malevich - Filefish - *Sieve Bonaiuti + Didi van der Putte - *Lily Clarisa - Mitsitron - *Simon Bouvier - Witte Wildernis - Yanna Kok + Bobbi of RE-PEAT - Antonia Kattou + Puck Wacki - Réon Códova - Queen Paramount - Eva Gombar-Krishnan - Richard Foster - SPARK - *Emir Cello - Morning Revolt - Josué Amador - RE#SISTER - *Hidden Since the Foundation of the World - Finlay J Hall + The Imaginary Choir - sevgi - NDNMK Solutions

* Recording Roulette submissions

Special shout out to the Pirate Stitching Club who crocheted, knitted, wove, and stitched through some pretty challenging conditions! WORMies know how to show up.

Pics by our own Viktoria, Florian, Marco, Sandra and Ash. Radio Relay mouse mascot by Sevgi! <3

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