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Building a House Without Bricks is a Harvest Festival consisting of a public programme and exhibition hosted by damdam (a collective of collectives brought together by de Appel Curatorial Programme & Sandberg Instituut temporary master Lumbung Practice and Gudskul Studi Kollektif in Jakarta ), which seeks to cultivate methods of collective organisation in times of crisis. The festival is formulated around three central questions: How to organise? How to distribute labour and resources? How to share what we produce?
The digital programme extends the exhibition into an ongoing online space, bringing together films (Film Pot and Footage Therapy), interviews (Rice to Meet You!), radio transmissions, reading sessions and knowledge sharing (Low Budget, High Concept), archival materials from the two-year process (Rumours and Humours) of forming Lumbung Practice in Monsterdam, alongside contributions from participating collectives. It functions as a shared infrastructure for staying connected across different localities and temporalities. The digital space acts as another room within the house: a space where different rhythms, contexts, and forms of knowledge can encounter and continue circulating beyond the physical exhibition.
Film Program – Film Pot
Film Pot is a shared digital space, started from December 2024, where filmmakers from the ecosystem around us contribute works into a common pool: a living archive built on trust, circulation, and collective use. It grows from the experience of translocal communities, the understanding that moving images can carry context across borders, and that learning from each other’s contexts and ways of seeing the world is itself a form of being together.
Click to Watch the Films Available, and see the archive of screenings!
Rice to meet you! (Interviews)
In this Section you can hear interviews, radio transmissions and DJ sets from our archives and new interviews that have been formed during preparation of the Harvest Festival!
Click to listen to interviews and radios!
Rumours and Humours, Archives of Two Years in Monsterdam
After two years of intensive experiment and collective practice, in this section you can see part of our Harvests/ Documentations of the rumours, humours, frustrations, joy, learning and gossips!
Low Budget, High Concept! (Sharing Knowledge, Reading Sessions)
We opened up this space to share and circulate the hidden knowledge inside our ecosystem and activate it. This is a space for going deeper into the practices of people connected to us and learn from each other, and use this space as a starting point that can generate new reading circles and learning moments together!
During the comming weeks until 15 August 2026, there will be Three online sessions that will be anounced in our instagram (@damdamist) and be archived here, and you are very welcome to join the online sessions as well!
Collectives and People Involved
- Biquini Wax
- Danger Gevaar Ingozi Studio
- dash & Silent Ball Room
- Level Five – Artist Cooperative Brussels
- millemains
- spin collective
- Typography
- Voedselpark Amsterdam
- Tutorial Collective
- United Fried Front
- We Sell Reality
- Serrum/Gudskul
- Komunitas Pasir Putih Lombok
- Makmur Djaja
- Riwanua
- Ruang Simpasio
- Indonesia Art Movement
- Khamoosh – Soundcamp – RE-PEAT
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