Anamaria Bagarić (dance) & Karmen Ponikvar (sound) will present their project The World Tethers
The World Tethers is a contemporary dance and live music performance by Anamaria Bagarić, in collaboration with sound artist Karmen Ponikvar. Informed by butoh, it is a physical manifestation of the ongoing flow of thoughts and the body’s response to the world around it. With the back as its central focus, movement and sound interact to give physical form to an inner monologue. Anamaria Bagarić (1991) is an author, choreographer, and dancer in the contemporary dance field. Karmen Ponikvar (1994) is a Slovenian sound artist working at the intersection of electronic and electroacoustic music.

Mar Fu Qi (dance) & Weiyan Low (sound) will share their collaborative Grounds
Grounds merges two narratives of displacement and belonging through experimental sound and dance performed by interdisciplinary duo Mar Fu Qi and Weiyan Low. We follow Mar’s reflections of her journey wandering through Shaoguan, China; the birthplace she never got to truly know as she grew up in The Netherlands. Weiyan uses Feedback as an anthropic vehicle for transition and estrangement, constructing a world of oscillating soundscapes and birdsong around Mar’s field recordings. With no-input mixing, effects, and percussion, he crafts a narrative of a bird extracted from the forest making sense of its alien surroundings, its song distorts, warps as it searches for kin. Mar Fu Qi is a dancer, photographer, and performance artist. Born in Guangdong, China, and raised in the Netherlands. Weiyan Low is a visual anthropologist and sound artist based in Den Haag

The third act will be improvisation from all artists of the night and Shawn Wong who will join them with his sound presence.

IN RECURRENCE brings together three recently graduated multidisciplinary artists based in Belgium and The Netherlands. From the sudden new environment after their graduation, they present some of their most recent works in Rotterdam. They invite you to WORM’s S/ash Gallery to soak in their mixed-media installations.

A common theme between the creatives is the subject of everyday, and how everydayness is perceived, traversed and captured. Our everyday surroundings- not only the buildings, crowds, and domains but also the rituals we adapt in bridging them and attempting to make sense of their aspects have a repetitive quality to them; a tautological effect that leaves both viewer and maker questioning the pattern at hand.

In an environment that has become increasingly streamlined, driven by economic interests and political motivation, what are moments that can truly be ours? IN RECURRENCE searches to question the detachment from systems that appear larger than ourselves, exploring spaces, memories and perceptions until a new-found comfort is discovered.

As the visitor enters the space they are invited into a quiet reflection on the effects of a postdigital urban society and the individual, lived experiences of everyday life.

Adriana Joëlle’s(1998, the Netherlands) practice is characterized by the use of various media: installation, video and sound, archival material, text and performance. Central to her work is the continuously shifting relationship between people, time and memory.
By exploring themes such as longing, loss, rituals, and repetition, she approaches her subjects as echoes from the past. In this way she reconstructs moments that are no longer physically present. By placing these elements in a new spatial and temporal context, she blurs the boundaries between past and present, presence and absence. Starting from her own lived experiences, but moving towards a collective memory, she strives to create space for reflection.

A space or moment in which to reconsider
what was,
what is,
and what may be.

Sam Janssen
My work delves into the digital realm, transforming it into sculptures and installations that blur the line between physical and virtual worlds. I reshape everyday objects, challenging perceptions of technology's impact on our lives. My art prompts reflection on our evolving reality in a tech-driven world, aiming to spark conversations about our relationship with technology and its influence on us. Ultimately, I invite viewers to reconsider their place in a rapidly evolving technological landscape through my art.

Stijn van Casteren
Stijn van Casteren is a Dutch transdisciplinary artist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. His current work revolves around repetition and the decay of perception. Coming from a background in painting and physical sound media he utilizes field recordings, tape loops and unstable electrical hums to attempt to explore the unheimlichkeit of urban environments and the sense of alienation as its primary echo, reflecting on the distant public spaces we inhabit during our daily lives.

Free entrance! ;)

LINEUP INFO:

CAIT is a Rotterdam-based underground DJ with a love for old-school sounds and infectious grooves. Drawing inspiration from Detroit techno, hypnotic rhythms, melodic textures and the playful energy of hard-house, she blends different sounds into a dynamic, dancefloor-driven journey.

DOUBLE-O-TEN are Rotterdam’s bounciest duo, serving rolling basslines, groovy rhythms and playful transitions that slide from underground to full energy real quick. Fresh twist to the city’s electronic music scene, no chill.

1-2-SEX flies in from Riga with fast and sweaty club energy. Chaotic blends of hardstyle, bounce, jersey club, playful pop edits and glitchy textures, shaped by London nightlife and radicalised by Riga’s disdain for alternative music artists, She plays for the queers, for the weirdos and the freaks :bbb 1-2-SEX is set to fuel a dancefloor that feels liberating and doesn’t take itself too seriously. Neither should you.

Your hosts Bryn Embers and ASHYPRINCEZZ are taking over the decks as THOT COUTURE. They go B2B with straight up techno, built on that old school 00s/10s club energy. Prepare your ears to blow up with dat bass. We made the party, so we’re gonna party.

Timetable:
23:00/00:00 - CAIT
00:00/01:30 - THOT COUTURE
01:30/02:30 - 1-2-SEX
02:30/04:00 - DOUBLE-0-TEN

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!Important note!
We run a stricter door policy to keep the vibe right. Respect the dancefloor, respect each other, and respect consent. No cameras on the dancefloor - be present or don’t come.
This one’s for people who come to dance. See you on Freaky Friday 13th

IN RECURRENCE brings together three recently graduated multidisciplinary artists based in Belgium and The Netherlands. From the sudden new environment after their graduation, they present some of their most recent works in Rotterdam. They invite you to WORM’s S/ash Gallery to soak in their mixed-media installations.

A common theme between the creatives is the subject of everyday, and how everydayness is perceived, traversed and captured. Our everyday surroundings- not only the buildings, crowds, and domains but also the rituals we adapt in bridging them and attempting to make sense of their aspects have a repetitive quality to them; a tautological effect that leaves both viewer and maker questioning the pattern at hand.

In an environment that has become increasingly streamlined, driven by economic interests and political motivation, what are moments that can truly be ours? IN RECURRENCE searches to question the detachment from systems that appear larger than ourselves, exploring spaces, memories and perceptions until a new-found comfort is discovered.

As the visitor enters the space they are invited into a quiet reflection on the effects of a postdigital urban society and the individual, lived experiences of everyday life.

Adriana Joëlle’s(1998, the Netherlands) practice is characterized by the use of various media: installation, video and sound, archival material, text and performance. Central to her work is the continuously shifting relationship between people, time and memory.
By exploring themes such as longing, loss, rituals, and repetition, she approaches her subjects as echoes from the past. In this way she reconstructs moments that are no longer physically present. By placing these elements in a new spatial and temporal context, she blurs the boundaries between past and present, presence and absence. Starting from her own lived experiences, but moving towards a collective memory, she strives to create space for reflection.

A space or moment in which to reconsider
what was,
what is,
and what may be.

Sam Janssen
My work delves into the digital realm, transforming it into sculptures and installations that blur the line between physical and virtual worlds. I reshape everyday objects, challenging perceptions of technology's impact on our lives. My art prompts reflection on our evolving reality in a tech-driven world, aiming to spark conversations about our relationship with technology and its influence on us. Ultimately, I invite viewers to reconsider their place in a rapidly evolving technological landscape through my art.

Stijn van Casteren
Stijn van Casteren is a Dutch transdisciplinary artist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. His current work revolves around repetition and the decay of perception. Coming from a background in painting and physical sound media he utilizes field recordings, tape loops and unstable electrical hums to attempt to explore the unheimlichkeit of urban environments and the sense of alienation as its primary echo, reflecting on the distant public spaces we inhabit during our daily lives.

Free entrance! ;)

We hope it won’t be a straight one, but also not a gay one who is as clean as the straights.
We hope it is not a guru that washes his sheets.
Let’s pray it will not be a leader who is hard all the time.
Let alone a master who tells you your eye liner is not in the right place anymore.
Let’s not choose role models who are on a diet.
Or heroes who want you to douche for days before coming.

If we wanna get off the dangerous route to the tourist trap, we need dirt, mess, chaos and slippery slopes! We need to stumble into dark wholes of dubious smells! We need your flesh against ours, sticky and sweaty! We need your spit to start the ritual!

JOIN THE CULT OF SLOPPY SEX CLOWNS

(capitalism will not reign by capturing this on social media. It’s gonna be even worse in real life, we promise)

Poëzie is een Daad
Poëzie is een Daad is het literaire collectief bestaande uit Joost Oomen, Yentl van Stokkum en Stefanie Liebreks. Sinds 2021 delen zij dagelijks een gedicht op Instagram. Wat begon als een manier om poëzie op te laten duiken tussen het scrollen, groeide uit tot een geliefd kanaal. Na het succes van hun eerste bloemlezing op papier, verzamelden ze nu gedichten voor elke dag van het jaar plus
een schrikkelgedicht.
Joost Oomen is o.a. dichter, schrijver en theatermaker. Met zijn poëzie (zoals de bundel Lievegedicht) theatervoorstellingen en romans probeert hij telkens een ode te brengen aan de schoonheid en literatuur toegankelijk te maken voor het grote publiek.
Yentl van Stokkum is dichter en toneelschrijver. Yentl stond al op allerlei podia en deze oktober verscheen haar derde poëziebundel: Zwarte gaten. Een bundel die tegen wil en dank toch over liefde gaat.
Stefanie Liebreks werkt als onafhankelijk redacteur en talentontwikkelaar op het gebied van literatuur en poëzie.
Teddy Tops is presentator, interviewer, schrijver en programmamaker. Vorig jaar verscheen bovendien haar debuutroman Egelskop.

Territorial Gobbing
Experimental performer and improviser in the art-damaged post-fluxus vein. High emotion process driven absurdist music and noise-poetry built from tape gunk, voice, bell and whistles. With various albums on Chocolate Monk, Opal Tapes and Scatter Archive.
https://territorialgobbing.bandcamp.com/

Zheng Hao
Born in Wuhan; lives in London. Mostly uses electronics for solo and small group improvisation, while other times also makes unpleasant computer dance music. Enjoys gritty and gnarly textures as well as delicate, amorphous qualities in different sound and space.
https://zhenghao.bandcamp.com/

Lawrence McGuire
Living in Rotterdam, Lawrence McGuire works with the presence of voice in text, symbol and sound. His works errand into text-sound, text-print, text-image and always culminates into a work that is voiced either by his own mouth or by others in a private or public setting. Most works are iterative efforts on creating a vocality by other means. He can be found collaborating with other sound poets, voice researchers, playwrights, musicians among others.
https://hogobogobogoo.bandcamp.com/

curated by Ege Sahin

Felix Kubin is a composer, creator of radio plays, performer, media artist and curator. A lovechild of the home recording era (he started to compose electronic 4-track music at the age of 12), his activities span futurist pop, electroacoustic and chamber orchestra music, radio art, lecture performances and writing. In 1998 he founded his own record label Gagarin Records. Over the last two decades, he has released numerous albums of different conceptual formats and played at well over hundred international contemporary music festivals. Felix Kubin likes to move between high and low culture, clubs and concert halls, as his main concern is the shifting of contexts and expectations.

The workshop INTRUSION takes place throughout the week, with 8 projects selected through an open call. Radio plays, and radio art more broadly, are part of WORM’s DNA. Our radio station and sound studio have always fostered experimentation in broadcast formats and encouraged musicians and other artists to try the specific form of the ‘hoorspeel’. With the current boom in platform-listening, “vibe-curation” and easy-listening on-demand audio, we think the time is right to challenge listeners and bring critical narrative radio back to a broad audience. We want to invite you to produce something new, extraordinary, and possibly uncomfortable. You can hear the results of the week on Sunday, 22 November, once again in WORM Central Station.

Free!

In deze Off Screen de nieuwste films van Fé Baan en van Joke Olthaar & André Schreuders. Ook herdenken we filmmaker, -kenner en -liefhebber Harm Smit (1960-2026).

Of iets met een tijger?
Fé Baan, 2026, 50 minuten

Wat gebeurt er als twijfel niet als nutteloos, maar als methode wordt beschouwd? Of iets met een tijger? onderzoekt het maakproces van een afstudeerfilm en bestaat uit verschillende lagen: een intuïtieve, waarin de kijker wordt meegenomen in het twijfelen; een documentaire, waarin de ideeën van Fé en die van de crew worden besproken; en een fictieve, met de twijfelende crew.

Gremo!
Joke Olthaar & André Schreuders, 2026, 9 minuten

Een zowel sobere als intense observatie van een kudde koeien op hun jaarlijkse tocht naar de alpenweiden. Rinkelende bellen, geloei en geschreeuw trekken de stoet voorwaarts. Een ogenschijnlijk minimalistische film die bruist van leven.

Off Screen is een avond voor de Rotterdamse auteursfilm en videokunst. In de vertoonde documentaires, (korte) speelfilms en filmische experimenten staat de maker centraal. Interviews maken deel uit van het programma: het artistieke proces, bronnen van inspiratie, het tobben en het plezier komen allemaal aan tafel aan bod. Daarnaast is het een plek om contacten te leggen, plannen te smeden en adviezen uit te wisselen.

Off Screen vindt onregelmatig plaats bij WORM. Heb je een film of tip die past bij Off Screen? Mail offscreenrotterdam@gmail.com.

Cineville geldig aan de deur en online op de avond zelf!

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This edition of Off Screen presents the latest films by Fé Baan and by Joke Olthaar & André Schreuders. In memory of filmmaker, film connoisseur and film lover Harm Smit (1960-2026).

Of iets met een tijger?
Fé Baan, 2026, 50 minutes

What happens when doubt is treated as a method rather than as something useless? Of iets met een tijger? explores the making of a graduation film and is built up in several layers: an intuitive one, in which the viewer is drawn into the doubting; a documentary one, in which Fé’s ideas and those of the crew are discussed; and a fictional one, with the doubting crew.

Gremo!
Joke Olthaar & André Schreuders, 2026, 9 minutes

A spare yet intense observation of a herd of cows on their yearly trek to the alpine pastures. Ringing bells, lowing and shouting drive the procession forward. A seemingly minimal film that teems with life.

Off Screen is an evening for Rotterdam’s author cinema and video art. Documentaries, (short) fiction films and film experiments are shown with the maker at the centre. Interviews are part of the programme: the artistic process, sources of inspiration, the doubts and the pleasure all come up at the table. It is also a place to meet, make plans and swap advice.

Off Screen takes place at irregular intervals at WORM. Have a film or a tip that fits Off Screen? Mail offscreenrotterdam@gmail.com.

Cineville valid at the door and online on the day itself!

IN RECURRENCE brings together three recently graduated multidisciplinary artists based in Belgium and The Netherlands. From the sudden new environment after their graduation, they present some of their most recent works in Rotterdam. They invite you to WORM’s S/ash Gallery to soak in their mixed-media installations.

A common theme between the creatives is the subject of everyday, and how everydayness is perceived, traversed and captured. Our everyday surroundings- not only the buildings, crowds, and domains but also the rituals we adapt in bridging them and attempting to make sense of their aspects have a repetitive quality to them; a tautological effect that leaves both viewer and maker questioning the pattern at hand.

In an environment that has become increasingly streamlined, driven by economic interests and political motivation, what are moments that can truly be ours? IN RECURRENCE searches to question the detachment from systems that appear larger than ourselves, exploring spaces, memories and perceptions until a new-found comfort is discovered.

As the visitor enters the space they are invited into a quiet reflection on the effects of a postdigital urban society and the individual, lived experiences of everyday life.

Adriana Joëlle’s(1998, the Netherlands) practice is characterized by the use of various media: installation, video and sound, archival material, text and performance. Central to her work is the continuously shifting relationship between people, time and memory.
By exploring themes such as longing, loss, rituals, and repetition, she approaches her subjects as echoes from the past. In this way she reconstructs moments that are no longer physically present. By placing these elements in a new spatial and temporal context, she blurs the boundaries between past and present, presence and absence. Starting from her own lived experiences, but moving towards a collective memory, she strives to create space for reflection.

A space or moment in which to reconsider
what was,
what is,
and what may be.

Sam Janssen
My work delves into the digital realm, transforming it into sculptures and installations that blur the line between physical and virtual worlds. I reshape everyday objects, challenging perceptions of technology's impact on our lives. My art prompts reflection on our evolving reality in a tech-driven world, aiming to spark conversations about our relationship with technology and its influence on us. Ultimately, I invite viewers to reconsider their place in a rapidly evolving technological landscape through my art.

Stijn van Casteren
Stijn van Casteren is a Dutch transdisciplinary artist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. His current work revolves around repetition and the decay of perception. Coming from a background in painting and physical sound media he utilizes field recordings, tape loops and unstable electrical hums to attempt to explore the unheimlichkeit of urban environments and the sense of alienation as its primary echo, reflecting on the distant public spaces we inhabit during our daily lives.

Free entrance! ;)

IN RECURRENCE brings together three recently graduated multidisciplinary artists based in Belgium and The Netherlands. From the sudden new environment after their graduation, they present some of their most recent works in Rotterdam. They invite you to WORM’s S/ash Gallery to soak in their mixed-media installations.

A common theme between the creatives is the subject of everyday, and how everydayness is perceived, traversed and captured. Our everyday surroundings- not only the buildings, crowds, and domains but also the rituals we adapt in bridging them and attempting to make sense of their aspects have a repetitive quality to them; a tautological effect that leaves both viewer and maker questioning the pattern at hand.

In an environment that has become increasingly streamlined, driven by economic interests and political motivation, what are moments that can truly be ours? IN RECURRENCE searches to question the detachment from systems that appear larger than ourselves, exploring spaces, memories and perceptions until a new-found comfort is discovered.

As the visitor enters the space they are invited into a quiet reflection on the effects of a postdigital urban society and the individual, lived experiences of everyday life.

Adriana Joëlle’s(1998, the Netherlands) practice is characterized by the use of various media: installation, video and sound, archival material, text and performance. Central to her work is the continuously shifting relationship between people, time and memory.
By exploring themes such as longing, loss, rituals, and repetition, she approaches her subjects as echoes from the past. In this way she reconstructs moments that are no longer physically present. By placing these elements in a new spatial and temporal context, she blurs the boundaries between past and present, presence and absence. Starting from her own lived experiences, but moving towards a collective memory, she strives to create space for reflection.

A space or moment in which to reconsider
what was,
what is,
and what may be.

Sam Janssen
My work delves into the digital realm, transforming it into sculptures and installations that blur the line between physical and virtual worlds. I reshape everyday objects, challenging perceptions of technology's impact on our lives. My art prompts reflection on our evolving reality in a tech-driven world, aiming to spark conversations about our relationship with technology and its influence on us. Ultimately, I invite viewers to reconsider their place in a rapidly evolving technological landscape through my art.

Stijn van Casteren
Stijn van Casteren is a Dutch transdisciplinary artist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. His current work revolves around repetition and the decay of perception. Coming from a background in painting and physical sound media he utilizes field recordings, tape loops and unstable electrical hums to attempt to explore the unheimlichkeit of urban environments and the sense of alienation as its primary echo, reflecting on the distant public spaces we inhabit during our daily lives.

Free entrance! ;)

Allarme (PL):
Post-punk, psychedelia, and entrancing noise. Walls of guitar feedback, wild sax and broken, stumbling rhythms. Such is the recipe for Allarme. Hailing from Warsaw, Poland, the eclectic quartet keeps coming up with new ways of implementing ear-piercing noise in their varied compositions, whether they're the punk-infused tracks on their 2024 debut LP, or the more elaborate and emotionally charged songs on their sophomore album, Bruit.
L O V E P E A C E N O I S E

https://youtu.be/nSKxdOlVdMM?si=vIfRUE1WwPrhv2jQ

Bottled Violence:
Bottled Violence is a five-piece noise-punk band formed at Rock City Institute in Eindhoven that has been playing together for almost a year now. Live, they transform into a vast blur of harsh feedback, fuzz, screaming vocals, and loud drums. Their lyrics reveal that they hold clear opinions on society, covering topics such as monarchy, capitalism, and human rights.

RISE:
The musical trio RISE is an improvising dark, noise band, carving paths into dynamic, raw and mystical worlds. With guitar, baritone, drums and a mix of scream, spoken word, raw and ethereal vocals, RISE fills the room with a heavy pressing cloud of emotional stories and strives to go beyond themselves and the room. Their work is influenced by elements of noise, psychedelia, industrial, free improvisation, jazz, acid rock, folk, no wave, and dark ambient, but consciously defies the laws of genre into something unique, personal and intense.

https://youtu.be/CjGAqCDdrcI?si=kdSwrAQeT0FEJBQL

IN RECURRENCE brings together three recently graduated multidisciplinary artists based in Belgium and The Netherlands. From the sudden new environment after their graduation, they present some of their most recent works in Rotterdam. They invite you to WORM’s S/ash Gallery to soak in their mixed-media installations.

A common theme between the creatives is the subject of everyday, and how everydayness is perceived, traversed and captured. Our everyday surroundings- not only the buildings, crowds, and domains but also the rituals we adapt in bridging them and attempting to make sense of their aspects have a repetitive quality to them; a tautological effect that leaves both viewer and maker questioning the pattern at hand.

In an environment that has become increasingly streamlined, driven by economic interests and political motivation, what are moments that can truly be ours? IN RECURRENCE searches to question the detachment from systems that appear larger than ourselves, exploring spaces, memories and perceptions until a new-found comfort is discovered.

As the visitor enters the space they are invited into a quiet reflection on the effects of a postdigital urban society and the individual, lived experiences of everyday life.

Adriana Joëlle’s(1998, the Netherlands) practice is characterized by the use of various media: installation, video and sound, archival material, text and performance. Central to her work is the continuously shifting relationship between people, time and memory.
By exploring themes such as longing, loss, rituals, and repetition, she approaches her subjects as echoes from the past. In this way she reconstructs moments that are no longer physically present. By placing these elements in a new spatial and temporal context, she blurs the boundaries between past and present, presence and absence. Starting from her own lived experiences, but moving towards a collective memory, she strives to create space for reflection.

A space or moment in which to reconsider
what was,
what is,
and what may be.

Sam Janssen
My work delves into the digital realm, transforming it into sculptures and installations that blur the line between physical and virtual worlds. I reshape everyday objects, challenging perceptions of technology's impact on our lives. My art prompts reflection on our evolving reality in a tech-driven world, aiming to spark conversations about our relationship with technology and its influence on us. Ultimately, I invite viewers to reconsider their place in a rapidly evolving technological landscape through my art.

Stijn van Casteren
Stijn van Casteren is a Dutch transdisciplinary artist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. His current work revolves around repetition and the decay of perception. Coming from a background in painting and physical sound media he utilizes field recordings, tape loops and unstable electrical hums to attempt to explore the unheimlichkeit of urban environments and the sense of alienation as its primary echo, reflecting on the distant public spaces we inhabit during our daily lives.

Free entrance! ;)

With a line-up featuring ANGELLUCKY, AWHLKUHN, CHAMBER 45 b2b JLSXND7RS, JEFTUZ and SUN O.C., this edition brings together different generations, backgrounds and approaches to club music. Expect unexpected connections, shifting rhythms and a dancefloor that moves beyond genre boundaries.

More than just a club night, TIFA APINTIE is a space where heritage meets experimentation and cultural identity finds new expression through sound. This edition captures that spirit in its fullest form — a meeting of influences, energies and people that is best experienced on the dancefloor.

What to expect? Eerie docu-fiction, village spats, speaking slime, violent media take-overs, a history of gesture made audible, a strange exchange over brassicas, the sound of human organs under attack, competitive TV nostalgia, and more...it's all here. As Laura and Paula noted: radio is inherently intrusive, they way it can enter our spaces unasked. We say: let it in.

Free to attend!

About the workshop leader
Felix Kubin is a composer, creator of radio plays, performer, media artist and curator.

A lovechild of the home recording era (he started to compose electronic 4-track music at the age of 12), his activities span futurist pop, electroacoustic and chamber orchestra music, radio art, lecture performances and writing. In 1998 he founded his own record label Gagarin Records. Over the last two decades, he has released numerous albums of different conceptual formats and played at well over hundred international contemporary music festivals. Felix Kubin likes to move between high and low culture, clubs and concert halls, as his main concern is the shifting of contexts and expectations.

About WORM Sound Studio and Radio WORM
WORM SOUND STUDIOS and the WAVEFORM RESEARCH CENTRE are internationally celebrated production spaces, part of a wider alternative network in the fields of radio art and underground music. The studio’s organisation has a wealth of DIY experience and facilities that are used by young programme makers, well-known musicians, sound artists and radio artists.

Both are part of a network of spaces in WORM, the Ultimate Playground: an ecosystem for new, deviant, vital culture: test environments for alternative art production and non-academic knowledge development.

Radio WORM existed as a series of commissioned radio art releases before developing into an online community radio platform in 2021. With a roster of several hundred regular radiomakers, the station broadcasts 6 days a week, with sorties to live festival environments including Rewire (the Hague) and Ultima (Oslo) as well as producing its own live events such as the 25 Hour Radio Relay and Delta Listening.

The workshop is supported by Goethe-Institut Niederlande.

IN RECURRENCE brings together three recently graduated multidisciplinary artists based in Belgium and The Netherlands. From the sudden new environment after their graduation, they present some of their most recent works in Rotterdam. They invite you to WORM’s S/ash Gallery to soak in their mixed-media installations.

A common theme between the creatives is the subject of everyday, and how everydayness is perceived, traversed and captured. Our everyday surroundings- not only the buildings, crowds, and domains but also the rituals we adapt in bridging them and attempting to make sense of their aspects have a repetitive quality to them; a tautological effect that leaves both viewer and maker questioning the pattern at hand.

In an environment that has become increasingly streamlined, driven by economic interests and political motivation, what are moments that can truly be ours? IN RECURRENCE searches to question the detachment from systems that appear larger than ourselves, exploring spaces, memories and perceptions until a new-found comfort is discovered.

As the visitor enters the space they are invited into a quiet reflection on the effects of a postdigital urban society and the individual, lived experiences of everyday life.

Adriana Joëlle’s(1998, the Netherlands) practice is characterized by the use of various media: installation, video and sound, archival material, text and performance. Central to her work is the continuously shifting relationship between people, time and memory.
By exploring themes such as longing, loss, rituals, and repetition, she approaches her subjects as echoes from the past. In this way she reconstructs moments that are no longer physically present. By placing these elements in a new spatial and temporal context, she blurs the boundaries between past and present, presence and absence. Starting from her own lived experiences, but moving towards a collective memory, she strives to create space for reflection.

A space or moment in which to reconsider
what was,
what is,
and what may be.

Sam Janssen
My work delves into the digital realm, transforming it into sculptures and installations that blur the line between physical and virtual worlds. I reshape everyday objects, challenging perceptions of technology's impact on our lives. My art prompts reflection on our evolving reality in a tech-driven world, aiming to spark conversations about our relationship with technology and its influence on us. Ultimately, I invite viewers to reconsider their place in a rapidly evolving technological landscape through my art.

Stijn van Casteren
Stijn van Casteren is a Dutch transdisciplinary artist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. His current work revolves around repetition and the decay of perception. Coming from a background in painting and physical sound media he utilizes field recordings, tape loops and unstable electrical hums to attempt to explore the unheimlichkeit of urban environments and the sense of alienation as its primary echo, reflecting on the distant public spaces we inhabit during our daily lives.

Free entrance! ;)

Pelagic and Sunflowers collaborate to create an attentive listening session with ambient/experimental (live) sets. On this Sunday you’ll find lots of carpets and pillows, soft lights and a well tuned spacial sound system. This edition will be co-curated by Sunflowers, a bi-monthly radioshow on Operator that gives light to FLINTA artists in electronic music.
Come drift away.

Line-up:
Rosillon SoundCloud & IG
Yksila (live) IG & SoundCloud
Dim Garden (live) IG & SoundCloud
Sign.nah IG & SoundCloud

19.00 doors open
19.15 start singing club
20.45 end singing club
21.00 doors close

Looking forward to sing with you // be with you // whisper with you // shout with you // experiment with you // create with you

NL
Singing Club Rotterdam is een open groep mensen die elke twee weken samenkomt. Je hoeft niet mooi te kunnen zingen om mee te doen; nieuwsgierigheid naar het verkennen van je stem is voldoende. We doen zang- en stemoefeningen, delen ervaringen in de groep en spelen met improvisatie. Wil je zelf iets uitproberen? Iedereen kan een sessie of oefening begeleiden.

19.00 uur: deuren open
19.15 uur: start Singing Club
20.45 uur: einde Singing Club
21.00 uur: deuren dicht

Ik kijk ernaar uit om met je te zingen // samen te zijn // te fluisteren // te schreeuwen // te experimenteren // te creëren

IN RECURRENCE brings together three recently graduated multidisciplinary artists based in Belgium and The Netherlands. From the sudden new environment after their graduation, they present some of their most recent works in Rotterdam. They invite you to WORM’s S/ash Gallery to soak in their mixed-media installations.

A common theme between the creatives is the subject of everyday, and how everydayness is perceived, traversed and captured. Our everyday surroundings- not only the buildings, crowds, and domains but also the rituals we adapt in bridging them and attempting to make sense of their aspects have a repetitive quality to them; a tautological effect that leaves both viewer and maker questioning the pattern at hand.

In an environment that has become increasingly streamlined, driven by economic interests and political motivation, what are moments that can truly be ours? IN RECURRENCE searches to question the detachment from systems that appear larger than ourselves, exploring spaces, memories and perceptions until a new-found comfort is discovered.

As the visitor enters the space they are invited into a quiet reflection on the effects of a postdigital urban society and the individual, lived experiences of everyday life.

Adriana Joëlle’s(1998, the Netherlands) practice is characterized by the use of various media: installation, video and sound, archival material, text and performance. Central to her work is the continuously shifting relationship between people, time and memory.
By exploring themes such as longing, loss, rituals, and repetition, she approaches her subjects as echoes from the past. In this way she reconstructs moments that are no longer physically present. By placing these elements in a new spatial and temporal context, she blurs the boundaries between past and present, presence and absence. Starting from her own lived experiences, but moving towards a collective memory, she strives to create space for reflection.

A space or moment in which to reconsider
what was,
what is,
and what may be.

Sam Janssen
My work delves into the digital realm, transforming it into sculptures and installations that blur the line between physical and virtual worlds. I reshape everyday objects, challenging perceptions of technology's impact on our lives. My art prompts reflection on our evolving reality in a tech-driven world, aiming to spark conversations about our relationship with technology and its influence on us. Ultimately, I invite viewers to reconsider their place in a rapidly evolving technological landscape through my art.

Stijn van Casteren
Stijn van Casteren is a Dutch transdisciplinary artist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. His current work revolves around repetition and the decay of perception. Coming from a background in painting and physical sound media he utilizes field recordings, tape loops and unstable electrical hums to attempt to explore the unheimlichkeit of urban environments and the sense of alienation as its primary echo, reflecting on the distant public spaces we inhabit during our daily lives.

Free entrance! ;)

A People's History of Music (during times of authoritarianism)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjWV7jHe-pk

For twelve years Eric Isaacson has been travelling with presentations that are part slideshow, part lecture, part film screening. This new one tells the story of music scenes that kept going under authoritarian rule, from Ethiopia, North Korea and Kenya to the USA and beyond. It is about how those in power try to control music, and how people slip past them: through samizdat tapes, secret messages hidden in pop songs, and DIY scenes that connect communities under pressure. Along the way you'll also see some unintentionally hilarious musical attempts by fascists and states, and hear about the uneasy relationship between New Age music and fascism.

Expect archival film, sound clips and images, and a host with a humble, comic way of digging up buried treasures and the odd stories behind them. Eric draws on his own experience of the fascist creep, but there is very little grandstanding.

Eric founded Mississippi Records in Portland, Oregon, and in twenty-three years has released over 390 records and 165 mixtapes of DIY music from around the world: punk, African guitar griots, Greek criminal underground music, deep country blues, gospel, spiritual jazz and more. For its first seventeen years the label had no website or social media and ran a cash only record shop, and it still sold over a million records.

Tickets: €10 (door + online)

Cineville valid at the door and online on the day itself!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjWV7jHe-pk

Al twaalf jaar reist Eric Isaacson rond met presentaties die deels slideshow, deels lezing en deels filmscreening zijn. In deze nieuwe editie vertelt hij het verhaal van muziekscènes die doorgingen onder autoritair bewind, van Ethiopië, Noord-Korea en Kenia tot de VS en verder. Het gaat over de manier waarop de machthebbers muziek proberen te controleren, en hoe mensen daar doorheen glippen: met samizdat-tapes, geheime boodschappen verstopt in popliedjes en DIY-scènes die gemeenschappen onder druk met elkaar verbinden. Onderweg zie je ook een aantal onbedoeld grappige muzikale pogingen van fascisten en staten, en hoor je over de verontrustende band tussen new agemuziek en fascisme.

Verwacht archiefbeeld, geluidsfragmenten en foto’s, en een verteller die met droge, bescheiden humor schatten opdiept en de vreemde verhalen erachter vertelt. Eric put uit zijn eigen ervaringen met het sluipende fascisme, maar preekt nergens.

Eric richtte Mississippi Records op in Portland, Oregon, en bracht in drieëntwintig jaar ruim 390 platen en 165 mixtapes uit met DIY-muziek van over de hele wereld: punk, Afrikaanse gitaargriots, Griekse criminele underground, diepe country blues, gospel, spiritual jazz en meer. De eerste zeventien jaar had het label geen website of sociale media en een platenwinkel waar alleen contant werd betaald, en toch verkocht het meer dan een miljoen platen.

Cineville geldig aan de deur en online op de dag zelf!

One ticket gives access to all. Come in: we work hard to surprise you!

We start early with the launch of WORM's MEGAzine and the celebration of our November resident artist Giulia Zabarella. After sending Danya Pilchen to Freisen during summer, we conclude our 2026 international exchange programme with the Trans European Upper Bavaria network. Drinks and bites to start the evening festive!

Meanwhile, you can catch our latest art exhibition, where three recent graduates from three different art academies meet: a collaboration between Stijn van Casteren (HKU), Sam Jansen (PZI) and Adriana Joëlle(KASK Gent). A post-human digital space.

The evening continues with neo-classical cello player and composer Ilan Bedner who’s been exploring how to bring his upcoming music album Paradise 2121 in a visual installation setting. The concept album tells the futuristic story of Emma and her A.I. lover Pandora.

Then we go MESSY Night! DREK MANOR presents the very first MESSY Night in WORM, the start of a series where WORM x Drek celebrate and support drag performance art, presenting local and national artists, starting and experienced talents.

Last but not least, there’s a new DJ in town! As we love talent development at all ages, DJ Helt will build a techno party in our bar. Is it dull to say, voetjes van de vloer?

Yes, yes, we know; too many things for one soul to take in, but we want to burn before winter starts!

18:00-20:00 MEGAzine launch & Artist-in-Residency borrel (space: Wunderbar & spaceship)
20:00h-20:50h Ilan Bedner: album release (space: black box UBIK)
21:00h-22:30h DREK MANOR presents MESSY Night! (space: WORM Central Station)
22:30h-00:30h foyer party: DJ Helt & friends (space: wunderbar)

19:30h-22:00h exhibition closing day. (space: gallery)

Photo courtesy of DREK MANOR.

IN RECURRENCE brings together three recently graduated multidisciplinary artists based in Belgium and The Netherlands. From the sudden new environment after their graduation, they present some of their most recent works in Rotterdam. They invite you to WORM’s S/ash Gallery to soak in their mixed-media installations.

A common theme between the creatives is the subject of everyday, and how everydayness is perceived, traversed and captured. Our everyday surroundings- not only the buildings, crowds, and domains but also the rituals we adapt in bridging them and attempting to make sense of their aspects have a repetitive quality to them; a tautological effect that leaves both viewer and maker questioning the pattern at hand.

In an environment that has become increasingly streamlined, driven by economic interests and political motivation, what are moments that can truly be ours? IN RECURRENCE searches to question the detachment from systems that appear larger than ourselves, exploring spaces, memories and perceptions until a new-found comfort is discovered.

As the visitor enters the space they are invited into a quiet reflection on the effects of a postdigital urban society and the individual, lived experiences of everyday life.

Adriana Joëlle’s(1998, the Netherlands) practice is characterized by the use of various media: installation, video and sound, archival material, text and performance. Central to her work is the continuously shifting relationship between people, time and memory.
By exploring themes such as longing, loss, rituals, and repetition, she approaches her subjects as echoes from the past. In this way she reconstructs moments that are no longer physically present. By placing these elements in a new spatial and temporal context, she blurs the boundaries between past and present, presence and absence. Starting from her own lived experiences, but moving towards a collective memory, she strives to create space for reflection.

A space or moment in which to reconsider
what was,
what is,
and what may be.

Sam Janssen
My work delves into the digital realm, transforming it into sculptures and installations that blur the line between physical and virtual worlds. I reshape everyday objects, challenging perceptions of technology's impact on our lives. My art prompts reflection on our evolving reality in a tech-driven world, aiming to spark conversations about our relationship with technology and its influence on us. Ultimately, I invite viewers to reconsider their place in a rapidly evolving technological landscape through my art.

Stijn van Casteren
Stijn van Casteren is a Dutch transdisciplinary artist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. His current work revolves around repetition and the decay of perception. Coming from a background in painting and physical sound media he utilizes field recordings, tape loops and unstable electrical hums to attempt to explore the unheimlichkeit of urban environments and the sense of alienation as its primary echo, reflecting on the distant public spaces we inhabit during our daily lives.

Free entrance! ;)

WORM's building hosts a myriad of activities: from making analogue film, synth workshops, community singing, creative get togethers and art clubs, to daily cooking vegan meals for our visitors. Many people don't see what happens behind the scenes and who drives these initiatives.
To give them the spotlight, WORM decided to start a series of interviews with our colleagues, friends and allies. After all, without them, WORM would be half the institution it is! From these interviews and other content, WORM has made a zine - the MEGAzine - which captures WORM's spirit. Our designers Sevgi & Polina added extra fun content and wrapped it up in a classic WORM design.

We launch the MEGAzine - on WORM's expEnded love evening. Everything is highly informal and very spontaneous, so just come down and say hi, and pick up a copy!

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Pak een exemplaar van onze nieuwe zine!
Binnen in WORM gebeurt van alles: van analoge films maken, synthworkshops en samen zingen tot creatieve bijeenkomsten, kunstclubs en elke dag vegan koken voor onze bezoekers.
Veel mensen zien niet wat er achter de schermen gebeurt en wie al deze initiatieven eigenlijk mogelijk maakt.
Daarom zetten we deze mensen nu in de spotlight. WORM is begonnen met een serie interviews met onze collega’s, vrienden en bondgenoten. Want zonder hen zou WORM niet de plek zijn die het nu is!

Uit deze interviews en andere verhalen heeft WORM een zine gemaakt: de MEGAzine. Een zine die de sfeer en energie van WORM neerzet. Onze designers Sevgi & Polina hebben er nog wat leuks aan toegevoegd en geven het een echte WORM-look.

We brengen de MEGAzine tijdens de expEnded love uit. Het wordt lekker informeel en spontaan, dus kom gewoon langs, zeg hallo en pak tijdens Kunstavond een exemplaar van de zine mee!

Electronic toys: delight to some, a nuisance to others. Let’s find out together..... During this workshop, we dive into the wacky and wonderful world of circuit bending children’s toys, turning innocent little noise-makers into weird, glitchy and “controllable” instruments.

We’ll start with two of the most accessible mods: pitch bending and adding an audio output. From there, we’ll hunt for trigger points and other ways to make our toys misbehave, and learn to control them with external gear like sequencers, standalone or modular synthesizers, or even other toys.

While we’ll be exploring some more advanced bending techniques and ways to interact with other gear, the workshop is still beginner-friendly. No extensive prior experience needed, just a bit of curiosity and a willingness to poke around.

All parts, tools and documentation are included. There’ll be a fine selection of thrifted toys to choose from, but feel free to bring your own victim.

Ws master; Walther Eichler
Damage: €50,-
Maximum participants: 15

Julian Edwardes
Julian Edwardes (UK/NL 1979) is a sound artist from the Netherlands. In his work he explores nonlinear systems, electro-static noises and system failure. He mainly uses a Serge/CGS Modular synthesizer, magnetic field detectors, computer, and custom-built electronic devices.
Julian lives and works in Breda the Netherlands. Listen to his most recent album, Sediment, here.

Roberto Auser
Roberto Auser is a Dutch artist and renegade designer (real name Derk Reneman) whose music moves between suspenseful synthesizer soundtracks, obscure 80s-tinged ambient and minimal electronics, and pounding electro and industrial techno. Each work is a chapter in a futuristic mythology told through what he calls audiographics. His aliases include The Wheel of Rituals, Bardar, Silver Age People and Kaval. A regular at Intergalactic FM Festival since its first edition, he performs live on modular synthesizer.

Sybren Danz
Old school rave, the Commodore Amiga and SL1210’s are his early influences. Later on those became the Akai MPC and hardware synths which are still there to this day, the synths now partly DIY and modular after his years at STEIM. Listen to his track Dizzit here.

NØ-1
NØ-1 (Lou Lévêque) is a Brussels-based composer and electronic musician. Their music moves between IDM, noise and experimental electronics, with a strong place given to improvisation and experimentation. Deeply motivated by questions of gender, mental health, vulnerability and community care, NØ-1 looks for forms of comfort, resistance and healing, creating spaces where listening can become something physical, intimate and collective.

Schrijver Alex Boogers brengt een ode aan Caitlin van den Ende van Boekhandel Maximus. Documentairemaker Victor Vroegindeweij en journalist Teun van de Keuken onthullen alles over hun serie Dirty Tony. Theatermaker Nastaran Razawi Khorasani gaat met presentator Tara Lewis in gesprek over haar nieuwste voorstellingen. Onderzoeker Teun van den Ende geeft een minicollege over de Tweede Stadsvernieuwing en de band Amélie Esmée verwarmt de harten met mooie muziek. Daar wil je toch bij zijn?

In het hart van Hillegersberg ligt Boekhandel Maximus, waar Caitlin van den Ende je helpt bij het vinden van het boek waarvan je niet wist dat je het zocht. Schrijver Alex Boogers brengt een aangename ode aan de belezen boekverkoper die graag auteurs interviewt over hun werk en recensies schrijft voor de rubriek ‘Caitlin tipt’.

In de tv-serie Dirty Tony laten Victor Vroegindeweij, documentairemaker en regisseur, en Teun van de Keuken, journalist en programmamaker, zien hoe de snackindustrie werkt. Van de Keuken verandert in een snelle voedselondernemer met maar één doel: zoveel mogelijk chips verkopen aan kinderen. Wat is het belang van viraal gaan? En hoeveel ruimte biedt de wet voor deze smakeloze verleiding?

Voor haar voorstelling To Do duikt theatermaker en actrice Nastaran Razawi Khorasani in de kattebel en vlugge krabbel: in het leven als eindeloze afvinklijst. Samen met Wunderbaum acteur Matijs Jansen vraagt ze zich af: geven to do’s ons grip op de wereld? Met presentator Tara Lewis blikt ze ook terug op Heartbeats, een performance over het taboe rond de dood. Hoe krijgt kwetsbaarheid een plek op het podium? En wat kunnen we daarvan leren?

Rotterdam staat voor een Tweede Stadsvernieuwing. In het minicollege toont onderzoeker en schrijver Teun van den Ende hoe het de gemeente, politiek en woningcorporaties lukte om in de jaren tachtig grote aantallen woningen te renoveren of slopen – met zo nu en dan een straatfeestje. Werkt dat recept ook voor de Tweede Stadsvernieuwing?

Warm en dromerig, zo klinkt de debuut-EP Toekomstverdriet van singer-songwriter Amélie Esmée. Haar alternatieve nederpop en soul komen samen in diepe arrangementen van de band met blazers. Een meeslepende ervaring die je niet wil missen!

*Upon this threshold, the very edge of what is known and observable, lies the event horizon, a liminal zone of magnified abilities. The only being that resides there unchanged is a beast of lovecraftian dimension. It waits for you, mouth wide open, saliva pooling at the back. You are warned of a sacral journey, a pilgrimage bringing a radical change in your core. As the beast swallows, warmth of its stomach embraces you, the acid melting your skin, flesh and bones, allowing for complete and total metamorphosis. I cannot tell you what happens next, as I do not know how you emerge. But the transformation has already begun, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. *

It is within the context of our own contemporary world, full of seemingly never-ending local and global crises, that the Belly of the Whale invites us to linger in the murky waters of metamorphosis. We all come into this world the same way: we are thrown into it. The world does not stop for us – it goes on, and on, and on. Our current reality is built on our history as a species, as a collective, and as an ecosystem. We can only hope to steer it towards our greatest dreams, but we keep on finding ourselves in the midst of extreme economic inequality, unregulated technological advancements, perpetual environmental injustice… And strangely, we find ourselves more disconnected than ever. What if these dark times we live in actually reveal that we are inside the belly of the whale? That we are being swerved by things happening around us: not exactly knowing how we ended up here, not sure what happens next.

What happens when you open up your eyes to this truth? What do you find inside the whale? What do you find inside yourself?

Swallowed by the unknown, this story is as old as art and religion go. In the myth of Jonah (Yunus), he too is swallowed by a large sea creature, and survives in its stomach for three days and three nights. He is spat out onto land: alive, but transformed by the experience. The comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell saw this swallowing as a crucial part of the hero’s journey. He saw the “world-wide womb image of the belly of the whale” to symbolize a “sphere of rebirth”, where “the hero goes inward… for the renovation of the world”. The hero’s entry into this transitory space entails an annihilation of what existed before, in order to make room for what is yet to come.

The hero’s descent into the unknown is not merely a journey of personal transformation, deepening and maturing the psyche, but one that also reverberates beyond the self, affecting the world the hero inhabits. What happens after the Whale spits us out? What do we do with the life that awaits us on the other side? What if, inside the belly of the whale, we not only discover that we are capable of being transformed…. but we also start to recognize that we hold the key to transform ourselves, and our ways of being, relating and acting in the world?
Regardless of what we encounter inside the Belly of the Whale, we must come out of the experience different, somehow. Changed… Anew.

The artists joining:

Helin Özdemir @helinarchives

Mima Mićić @mortc0re

Ceyhun Firat @ceyhunfirat

Francesca Mazzetto @Franfran.fm

Oana Beatrice Popescu @bloomingstrangely

Carme Ferrando Soriano @xcarmee

Mule @mouleaqa

Simona Krivorukova @ttutitamm

Meng @limengze091

Aden Mete @adens_arts

Emma Hendriks

Echo @bebopakrasia

Mira van den Berg @mira.vandenberg

vix @reciprocoenazul

Arie Wang @reciprocoenazul

Oleksandra

Giulia Monteverde

Art-Gang presents: Belly of the Whale. Art-Gang and WORM are collaborating in organising an exhibition project, where around 17 artists work in a community and make art for an exhibition in a period of three months. During this project they take part in workshops, visit different kinds of art mediums and work on their personal art works. This project is part of SKILLS COURT and is organised through MDT.

Come sweat, bounce, flirt, and RELEASE - all with consent ofc. No explanations bby just movement. 🥵

DON’T JUST HEAR ABOUT IT. BE THERE. 🔥

Expect to hear sum bubbling, jersey club, latin tech, bounce, groove, techno, ghettohouse omg the list goes onnnnn. Be there you don’t wanna miss it!

*Upon this threshold, the very edge of what is known and observable, lies the event horizon, a liminal zone of magnified abilities. The only being that resides there unchanged is a beast of lovecraftian dimension. It waits for you, mouth wide open, saliva pooling at the back. You are warned of a sacral journey, a pilgrimage bringing a radical change in your core. As the beast swallows, warmth of its stomach embraces you, the acid melting your skin, flesh and bones, allowing for complete and total metamorphosis. I cannot tell you what happens next, as I do not know how you emerge. But the transformation has already begun, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. *

It is within the context of our own contemporary world, full of seemingly never-ending local and global crises, that the Belly of the Whale invites us to linger in the murky waters of metamorphosis. We all come into this world the same way: we are thrown into it. The world does not stop for us – it goes on, and on, and on. Our current reality is built on our history as a species, as a collective, and as an ecosystem. We can only hope to steer it towards our greatest dreams, but we keep on finding ourselves in the midst of extreme economic inequality, unregulated technological advancements, perpetual environmental injustice… And strangely, we find ourselves more disconnected than ever. What if these dark times we live in actually reveal that we are inside the belly of the whale? That we are being swerved by things happening around us: not exactly knowing how we ended up here, not sure what happens next.

What happens when you open up your eyes to this truth? What do you find inside the whale? What do you find inside yourself?

Swallowed by the unknown, this story is as old as art and religion go. In the myth of Jonah (Yunus), he too is swallowed by a large sea creature, and survives in its stomach for three days and three nights. He is spat out onto land: alive, but transformed by the experience. The comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell saw this swallowing as a crucial part of the hero’s journey. He saw the “world-wide womb image of the belly of the whale” to symbolize a “sphere of rebirth”, where “the hero goes inward… for the renovation of the world”. The hero’s entry into this transitory space entails an annihilation of what existed before, in order to make room for what is yet to come.

The hero’s descent into the unknown is not merely a journey of personal transformation, deepening and maturing the psyche, but one that also reverberates beyond the self, affecting the world the hero inhabits. What happens after the Whale spits us out? What do we do with the life that awaits us on the other side? What if, inside the belly of the whale, we not only discover that we are capable of being transformed…. but we also start to recognize that we hold the key to transform ourselves, and our ways of being, relating and acting in the world?
Regardless of what we encounter inside the Belly of the Whale, we must come out of the experience different, somehow. Changed… Anew.

The artists joining:

Helin Özdemir @helinarchives

Mima Mićić @mortc0re

Ceyhun Firat @ceyhunfirat

Francesca Mazzetto @Franfran.fm

Oana Beatrice Popescu @bloomingstrangely

Carme Ferrando Soriano @xcarmee

Mule @mouleaqa

Simona Krivorukova @ttutitamm

Meng @limengze091

Aden Mete @adens_arts

Emma Hendriks

Echo @bebopakrasia

Mira van den Berg @mira.vandenberg

vix @reciprocoenazul

Arie Wang @reciprocoenazul

Oleksandra

Giulia Monteverde

Art-Gang presents: Belly of the Whale. Art-Gang and WORM are collaborating in organising an exhibition project, where around 17 artists work in a community and make art for an exhibition in a period of three months. During this project they take part in workshops, visit different kinds of art mediums and work on their personal art works. This project is part of SKILLS COURT and is organised through MDT.

more info coming soon!

*Upon this threshold, the very edge of what is known and observable, lies the event horizon, a liminal zone of magnified abilities. The only being that resides there unchanged is a beast of lovecraftian dimension. It waits for you, mouth wide open, saliva pooling at the back. You are warned of a sacral journey, a pilgrimage bringing a radical change in your core. As the beast swallows, warmth of its stomach embraces you, the acid melting your skin, flesh and bones, allowing for complete and total metamorphosis. I cannot tell you what happens next, as I do not know how you emerge. But the transformation has already begun, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. *

It is within the context of our own contemporary world, full of seemingly never-ending local and global crises, that the Belly of the Whale invites us to linger in the murky waters of metamorphosis. We all come into this world the same way: we are thrown into it. The world does not stop for us – it goes on, and on, and on. Our current reality is built on our history as a species, as a collective, and as an ecosystem. We can only hope to steer it towards our greatest dreams, but we keep on finding ourselves in the midst of extreme economic inequality, unregulated technological advancements, perpetual environmental injustice… And strangely, we find ourselves more disconnected than ever. What if these dark times we live in actually reveal that we are inside the belly of the whale? That we are being swerved by things happening around us: not exactly knowing how we ended up here, not sure what happens next.

What happens when you open up your eyes to this truth? What do you find inside the whale? What do you find inside yourself?

Swallowed by the unknown, this story is as old as art and religion go. In the myth of Jonah (Yunus), he too is swallowed by a large sea creature, and survives in its stomach for three days and three nights. He is spat out onto land: alive, but transformed by the experience. The comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell saw this swallowing as a crucial part of the hero’s journey. He saw the “world-wide womb image of the belly of the whale” to symbolize a “sphere of rebirth”, where “the hero goes inward… for the renovation of the world”. The hero’s entry into this transitory space entails an annihilation of what existed before, in order to make room for what is yet to come.

The hero’s descent into the unknown is not merely a journey of personal transformation, deepening and maturing the psyche, but one that also reverberates beyond the self, affecting the world the hero inhabits. What happens after the Whale spits us out? What do we do with the life that awaits us on the other side? What if, inside the belly of the whale, we not only discover that we are capable of being transformed…. but we also start to recognize that we hold the key to transform ourselves, and our ways of being, relating and acting in the world?
Regardless of what we encounter inside the Belly of the Whale, we must come out of the experience different, somehow. Changed… Anew.

The artists joining:

Helin Özdemir @helinarchives

Mima Mićić @mortc0re

Ceyhun Firat @ceyhunfirat

Francesca Mazzetto @Franfran.fm

Oana Beatrice Popescu @bloomingstrangely

Carme Ferrando Soriano @xcarmee

Mule @mouleaqa

Simona Krivorukova @ttutitamm

Meng @limengze091

Aden Mete @adens_arts

Emma Hendriks

Echo @bebopakrasia

Mira van den Berg @mira.vandenberg

vix @reciprocoenazul

Arie Wang @reciprocoenazul

Oleksandra

Giulia Monteverde

Art-Gang presents: Belly of the Whale. Art-Gang and WORM are collaborating in organising an exhibition project, where around 17 artists work in a community and make art for an exhibition in a period of three months. During this project they take part in workshops, visit different kinds of art mediums and work on their personal art works. This project is part of SKILLS COURT and is organised through MDT.

**কাল্পনি ক রে খা **(Kalponik Rekha) is a sound and performance art platform created to cultivate collaborative engagement between South Asian artists across (cultural) borders.
Chinabot is a multidisciplinary platform, record label, event promoter, and radio network founded in 2017 to promote adventurous, non-mainstream, and experimental Asian diaspora music

ENG
De Budget Slagers (“The Budget Butchers”) is a (mostly) Dutch-spoken podcast celebrating low-budget cinema and beyond. Hosts Davy, Carlo and Tommy share their love for horror, cult films and bizarre oddities with infectious enthusiasm and a sincere appreciation for small budgets and big ambitions. Listen on Spotify, or find all the links here.

For their collaboration with WORM, they picked Jeff Leroy’s Rat Scratch Fever: a delirious sci-fi horror film in which giant rats wreak havoc upon Los Angeles. Get ready for a bloody mayhem with miniature buildings and a filmmaker who refuses to let limited resources get in the way. Exactly the kind of inventive, unrestrained genre cinema they love talking about on their podcast.

Cineville valid at the door and online on the day itself!

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De Budget Slagers is een on-ironische podcast over lowbudgetcinema en meer. Davy, Carlo en Tommy delen hun liefde voor horror, cult en bizarre buitenbeentjes, met veel enthousiasme en zonder neer te kijken op kleine budgetten en grootse ambities. Luisteren kan onder andere via Spotify. Alle links vind je hier.

Voor hun samenwerking met WORM selecteerden zij Rat Scratch Fever van Jeff Leroy: een uitzinnige scifi-horrorfilm waarin reuzenratten Los Angeles onveilig maken. Verwacht miniatuurgebouwen, bloederige chaos en een filmmaker die zijn beperkte middelen geen seconde in de weg laat staan. Precies het soort inventieve, ongeremde genrecinema waar zij met alle plezier en liefde over praten in zijn podcast.

Cineville geldig aan de deur en online op de dag zelf!

On September 12 2026, coordinated raids targeting the LGBTQIA+ community took place across several cities in Turkey. Dozens of homes, associations and clubs were raided, and hundreds of people were detained. A total of 82 people, most of them trans women and LGBTQIA+ activists, were arrested and imprisoned. Further operations in October and November led to the imprisonment of 15 more trans women.

In the face of these attacks, we refuse to stand by in silence. We are coming together to strengthen our solidarity with the queer community in Turkey and, above all, to stand alongside our friends who are being unjustly held behind bars.

The DJs and performers you know from Queer Oriental parties are coming together and taking the stage entirely on a voluntary basis, in a spirit of solidarity. We will dance to SWANA music, celebrate the art of belly dancing, and dance govend and halay together. Because coming together, celebrating our cultures, and creating spaces of joy are also ways of standing together. Let’s turn the dance floor into a space of solidarity!

All proceeds from ticket sales will go towards supporting the needs of LGBTQIA+ people imprisoned in Turkey. Every ticket makes a difference.

Can’t make it to the party? You can still stand in solidarity by purchasing a solidarity ticket and contributing to this collective effort.

Together, we are stronger. Solidarity is our power!

FREEDOM FOR OUR IMPRISONED FRIENDS!

Listening Glossary explores the many meanings and practices of listening. In an era shaped by climate crisis, war and deepening social inequalities, listening is increasingly called upon to bear witness – to melting glaciers, disappearing species, militarised borders, extractive infrastructures and other forms of violence and loss.

For this launch event, Hannah will be in conversation with Cannach MacBride and Ash Kilmartin, both Rotterdam-based contributors to the Glossary.

This glossary is a practical guide to listening as a social, political and imaginative practice. It gathers over two hundred terms from art, ecology, activism, psychology, education and philosophy across nine decades of thinking about listening as a way of relating to others, environments and structures of power. Entries invite listening through another’s ears or from specific perspectives, encountering forms of listening that range from the non-cochlear to the interspecies. Together, these entries reveal listening as a critical method for understanding and transforming the worlds we inhabit.

The launch takes place in WORM UBIK (Boomgaardsstraat 96 - down the street from the WORM kassa) and entrance is free.

Live Sound Explorations from the WORM soundstudio cooperation! It's the 8th edition after the very successful one in June, and the other very successful one in October and the other very, very, incredible, and - of course - successful one in December, not to mention the incredible successful ones in February & April. (and don't forget the very incredible one in september)

HEY.
(rather) NEW THING: Studiocoope started it's own Bandcamp label, check here, or here, no HERE

program tba.

Lineup to be announced soon.

Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest
by Viv Li
2026, Germany/Netherlands, 85 minutes, English, Mandarin, German with English subtitles

Viv Li's feature debut had its world premiere in the Panorama section of the Berlinale earlier this year, where it was nominated for a Teddy Award. After its Dutch premiere at IDFA in November, we show it at WORM on 16 December, presented together with Diaspora East Cinema.

After the screening, Viv Li will join us online for a live Q&A!

Beijing-born Viv got stuck in Berlin after the pandemic and wandered, half by accident, into the city's queer and alternative scene. Back home, her family has one pressing question: why is she such an oddball? Moving between Berlin nightlife, family dinners in Beijing and drunken late-night talks in New York, she keeps adjusting to what others think of her, of the world and of China, and only gets more lost along the way.

Li turns the camera on herself with dry, self-mocking humour. It plays like a diary that keeps tripping over its own contradictions, about trying to belong in two places that each expect something different from you.

Cineville valid at the door and online on the day itself.

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Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest
van Viv Li
2026, Duitsland/Nederland, 85 minuten, Engels, Mandarijn, Duits met Engelse ondertiteling

Het speelfilmdebuut van Viv Li beleefde eerder dit jaar zijn wereldpremière in de Panorama-sectie van de Berlinale, waar de film werd genomineerd voor een Teddy Award. Na de Nederlandse première op IDFA in november vertonen wij hem op 16 december in WORM, samen met Diaspora East Cinema.

Na afloop sluit Viv Li online aan voor een live Q&A!

De in Beijing geboren Viv strandt na de pandemie in Berlijn en belandt half per ongeluk in de queer en alternatieve scene van de stad. Thuis heeft haar familie vooral één vraag: waarom is ze zo'n vreemde eend in de bijt? Tussen het Berlijnse nachtleven, familiediners in Beijing en dronken nachtelijke gesprekken in New York past ze zich steeds aan aan wat anderen vinden van haar, van de wereld en van China, en lijkt ze zich steeds meer van zichzelf te vervreemden.

Li richt de camera op zichzelf, met een fijne dosis zelfspot. De film voelt als een dagboek dat telkens struikelt over zijn eigen tegenstrijdigheden, over het verlangen ergens bij te horen op twee plekken die allebei iets anders van je verwachten.

Cineville geldig aan de deur en online op de dag zelf!

Andre Manuel:
André Manuel is al ruim dertig jaar een van de meest eigenzinnige stemmen in de Nederlandse muziek. Als liedschrijver en frontman van onder meer Krang en De Ketterse Fanfare bouwde hij een indrukwekkend oeuvre op, vol scherpe observaties, zwarte humor en ontroerende verhalen. Zijn Nederlandstalige liedjes zijn compromisloos, persoonlijk en maatschappelijk betrokken. Daarnaast is hij een gelauwerd theatermaker en cabaretier, en maakte hij zo’n 20 solo theatervoorstellingen.

Across the world, drug policy is shifting: cannabis is being legalised, psychedelics are being developed into medicines, and once-banned substances are becoming commodities in a new billion-dollar industry. But who profits from this transformation? And who continues to pay the price? While investors pour money into these emerging markets, prisons remain filled with people criminalised for their involvement with the same substances, and enforcement still falls hardest along lines of race and class. As prohibition gives way to commercialisation, what will follow the war on drugs?

On 11 February 2027, Kojo Koram, professor of law and political economy and acclaimed author of Uncommon Wealth, joins us to discuss his new book, The Next Fix: The Winners and Losers in the Future of Drugs. Travelling across five continents, Koram investigates how drugs, capitalism, and inequality intersect, combining reportage, political analysis and personal testimony.

From Louisiana’s plantation-turned-prison Angola to the psychedelic boom of Silicon Valley, he explores both the damage wrought by prohibition and the possibilities—and pitfalls—of the emerging legal markets. Can the new drug economy deliver better healthcare and greater social justice? Or will corporate monopolies and economic exploitation define the future of drugs?