In Against Number Magic, a German queer reckons with their country’s obsession with their own history. Germany’s singular guilt narrative blinds the country from seeing it is complicit in yet another genocide. The piece is hectic, to the point, and damning. After, the artist will hold a discussion on Europe’s inability to define itself through its colonial history, and/or on the practice and value of art making as political resistance.

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Amsterdam BANGS is a politically charged joyride taking place all over Amsterdam during September 19th to 22nd. Get ready for a BANGING theatre and performance festival, organised by anarchists, artists, and activists, to take over not just traditional venues, not just the squats, not just the streets, not just your local Albert Heijn, not just your ING help desk but even your own home. BANGS is non-hierarchically and self-organised: anyone can propose their show, wherever they want, create any workshop or performance, so long as it’s non-commercial and BANGING. Stages are kept behind gates, giving space only to the same old voices. We want Amsterdam to be our stage and hear the voices of many! We wish for soft, loud, ludicrous, experimental performance art and activism to take over the city and shake it up! Have the city become our playground.

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