BIG DADA

During this art manifestation, Arti transforms into a futuristic laboratory – with a kaleidoscopic parcours of multimedia, interactive installations, performances and films. In addition to Museum Night, there is Club DaDa every Friday, an Art-Hack Symposium, and an artist talk.

In response to the absurdity of the present, Big DaDa examines the role of art in a world driven by data and algorithms and explores how makers respond to the digital reality of social media, bots and undermining information networks built on assumptions.

ARTISTS
Alicia Framis (NL|ES), Martinus Suijkerbuijk (NL), Kexin Hao (NL|CN), Katarina Petrovic (SRB|NL), Margit Lukács & Persijn Broersen (NL), Jan Zuiderveld (NL), Dang-Vu Dang (NL), Igor Schiller (SRB), Roos Groothuizen (NL), Jeroen van Loon (NL), Float (NL), Li -Yi Fan (TW), Pip Greenaway (NL)

PERFORMERS
Younes van den Broeck (aka Spitler) (BE), Dang-Vu Dang (NL), Splitter Splatter (NL), Coralie Vogelaar (NL), Kraftgalli (IS), Maarten Vinkenoog (NL), Kexin Hao (NL|CN), Diana Burkot (Pussy Riot) (RU)

CURATORS
Arjen Lancel and Eva Gonggrijp

ARTISTS
Yi-Fan Li, representing Taiwan at the 2026 Venice Biennale, presents What’s Your Favorite Primitive a digital self-duel in which he uses his own software to expose the emotional charge and absurdity of the digital age. At the other end of the spectrum, emerging artist Pip Greenaway shows Too Much to Swallow, an immersive audiovisual installation in which a consumer slowly morphs into a chewing-gum monster, a grotesque vision of consumer culture that leaves a lasting impression. Roos Groothuizen creates Dopamine Arcade, a karaoke bar using algorithmic seduction mechanisms where visitors perform songs against a backdrop of live news footage. Poetry and alienation resonate in Lukács & Broersen’s digital animation film The Lions Court, installed in Arti’s monumental staircase, where singing lions seize power in a post-apocalyptic Dutch Parliament. Đăng-Vũ Đặng transforms his history as the child of Vietnamese boat refugees into a tactile experience in his food lab, preparing a live, edible installation that exposes intergenerational trauma and diaspora. Jeroen van Loon holds up an ironic mirror with his compilation of fail videos, in which his robot reveals a painfully human clumsiness. Float presents humorous kinetic sketches, tender, poetic objects drawn from everyday life. Igor Schiller turns family archives into melancholic dreamscapes, attempting to heal Serbia’s troubled past. Alicia Framis and Jan Zuiderveld question the relationship between humans and machines: from a holographic marriage to an interactive AI robot that reacts to both visitors and the exhibition itself, with the voice and attitude of David Attenborough. Katarina Petrović poses the question: Can an algorithm lie? in her project Negative Bible. Martinus Suijkerbuijk creates speculative landscapes within game engines, installations where biosphere and technosphere intertwine.

PROGRAMME
During this programme, the exhibition is open in the evenings from 8pm until 11pm

Friday 31 October | Big Preview | Meet & Greet | 20.00 - 23.00
Host: Dame DaDa
Performances: Spitler, Roos Groothuizen, Kraftgalli, Maarten Vinkenoog, Ester Natzijl, Đăng-Vũ Đặng and Laetitia de Veth

Saturday 1 November | Museum Night Amsterdam | 19.00 - 02.00
An impressive, eclectic programme of disruptive performances, installations, infectious encounters and music throughout the entire Arti building.
Performances: Spitler, Maarten Vinkenoog, Kraftgalli, Ester Natzijl, Roos Groothuizen, Đăng-Vũ Đặng and Laetitia de Veth

Friday 7 November | Club DaDa #1 | Everything's Computer | City Art Department | Evening exhibition | 20.30 – 00.00
Sandberg Institute presents its own Club DaDa:
An experimental live programme with performances, props and music.
The society as a stage for absurdist, rough-edged and rebellious expression.

Saturday 8 November | Symposium | The Art of Hacking & Hacking in Art | 14.00 - 17.00
Tech and activism: a meeting between art, science and hacking.
Moderator: Katarina Petrović 
Panel: Coralie Vogelaar, Jan Zuiderveld, Roos Groothuizen, Rop Gonggrijp, Ine Poppe and Sam Nemeth
Performance: Coralie Vogelaar

Friday 14 November | Club DaDa #2 | Evening exhibition | 21.00 - 00.00
DaDa Fashionista night with catwalk performances + DJ Fortuin
Host: Dame DaDa
Performance: Marjolein van der Wal
Music performance: Splitter Splatter
Make-up artist: Leatitia de Veth
Dress code: DADA and/or DATA

Thursday 20 November | Artist Talk | Evening exhibition | 20.00 - 22.30
A night with the Big Dadaists: Pepijn Broersen, Margit Lukács en Đăng-Vũ Đặng

Friday 21 November | Club DaDa #3 | Evening exhibition | 20.00 - 01.00
Grand Finale with Dadaist showstopper
Live music and performances: Pussy Riot - Diana Burkot
Karaokebar and Happy Dystopian Disco with DJ Oscar

For more information see:
bigdada.nl
artscienceforum.nl

This manifestation is realised with the generous support of
AFK, Fonds 21, Stimuleringsfonds, Cultuurfonds Landelijk & Mondriaan Fonds