Lengüeteo, Léchage, Licking (un lapsus)

Perdu, Friday, June 19 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

A multilingual Evening of literary performances with Martica Minipunto & Camille Kingué.

Martica Minipunto performs Lengüeteo (un desliz). Tongue, saliva, clicks, stuttering: involuntary excesses of sound. The tongue traces an erratic, erotic map. It reveals what remains unsaid, traversing and embodying the mother tongue, the organ, memory, the autobiographical: a word suspended in saliva before being cast into language. A piece of her inside is projected outside, beyond the margins of page, of mouth.

Camille Kingué reads from her poetry publications Sex I, Sex 2 and other pieces. The voice in her poems traces a desiring, doubting self: cumulative fantasies of unspoken scenarios merging into internal dialogues. Written in the very present tense of love, her writing follows the contradictions of gestures and feelings through which femininity is performed, unsettling an imposed image of womanhood. Her poetry oscillates between confession and fiction, forms of estrangement through which the self no longer entirely coincides with its image.

The visual gestures on the poster are paintings from Martica Minipunto’s tongue-painting series.
Lengüeteo, Léchage, Licking (un lapsus) is part of our Transatlantic Voices series. Through workshops, readings and events, the project seeks to amplify women and queer perspectives of contemporary Latin American authors, opening up a space for resonance and resistance.

Host: Jimena Casas.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/lengueteo-lechage-licking-un-lapsus

Maison Avant Après - the latest collection fashion forward literature & annual Perdu Party

Perdu, Friday, June 26 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

Maison Avant Après is a new project that opens up a space for literature on fashion. This evening, Maison Avant Après presents its debut collection Haute Écriture. This also marks Perdu’s season finale and continues into the early hours.

On 26 June Maison Avant Après presents their first collection Haute Écriture. The écrituriers of service turn their fascination for fashion into strange and dazzling pieces full of paradoxes. The practitioner of haute écriture spends years gathering enough impressions and spends hundreds of hours on the tiniest details. The pieces on show are made using complex techniques and paradoxical feelings. We see how fashion dictates strict laws and conceals oppression, but also offers possibilities to escape corsets and straightjackets.

During the presentation, the Maison proudly shows the result of this labour, hoping to form an artistic avant-garde together with the audience rather than a flock of passive fashion victims. There is no doubt that fashion has the power to mobilise the masses, but can the continuous metamorphosis on the catwalk bring about real, substantial change?

Afterwards, the show continues on the dance floor for the festive closure of Perdu’s cultural season with music, drinks, and aesthetic excess into the night.

Hurry to the front row!

A programme by Perdu x Maison Avant Après
Host: Oliver Taylor
Language: EN/NL (during the Dutch parts, English translations are shown)
Dress code: Overdressed

Dewi de Nijs Bik relates to the Radical Call for Love collection of fashion designer Marine Serre, who took the fashion world by storm a decade ago in the aftermath of the attacks in Paris and Brussels. What remains of this mobilizing energy in 2026? And how do these remnants inscribe themselves into history? This new poetry work will be presented by literary top model Marieke Ornelis, herself a writer and dramaturge.

Tim Fraanje provides a fashion commentary to Alessandro Michele’s debut-couture show Valentino Vertigineux (2025), of which a rich selection of video fragments is shown. What can this exorbitant parade teach us about abundance and excess? Luuk Dolfijn joins on the drums.

Romy Day Winkel en Hanka van der Voet honour Amsterdam’s 19th-century seamstresses who formed the first all-female union of the Netherlands, De Naaistersbond. They perform a reading of poems, short stories and call-outs from the union’s newspaper De Naaistersbode, to highlight the radicality of the seamstresses.

rahman QUL presents his new poetry, turning metropolitan Paris – global fashion capital – into an echo chamber for post-Soviet experiences and the stories of marginalized communities that have ended up in Limburg. He shows how people with limited means use fashion to shape their desire for a luxurious, post-capitalist world.

Rainer Diana Hamilton and Violet Spurlock are the writers of the text What does it mean to be well-dressed? in which they explore the idea of fashion as a collective dialogue. In their absence, the audience will perform this polyphonic conversation.

Party line-up:

Tim Fraanje and Luuk Dolfijn go on stage for a second time as music duo Big Hare. They give a demonstration of Solarcore, a danceable method to manifest a magnificent, solar powered future. The performance includes a display of futuristic solarcore costumes made by designer Jonathan Ho.

Tonight Dj V von Willendorf, dj alterego of poet Anne Marijn Voorhorst, crosses as many musical regions and genres as possible – from van baile funk, kuduro and latin core to grime, dancehall, acid house and contemporary trance.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/maison-avant-apres-the-latest-collection-fashion-forward-literature-and-annual-perdu-party

Object of Desire

Perdu, Friday, June 12 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

In collaboration with the (Trans–) Sexualities + Psychoanalysis Summer School, this Evening is a program of readings by Elena Comay del Junco, Shiv Kotecha, and Basyma Saad. With an introduction by Maxi Wallenhorst.

Host: Marija Cetinic

Elena Comay del Junco is a writer and philosophy professor. Her work has appeared in The Point, Post45, Texte zur Kunst, and Bæst. She recently published a translation of Ibn Sīnā‘s Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics (2025) and a chapbook, Second Nature (2023). She is currently editing and translating a tenth-century Arabic poem on cosmology, and her book Innervation Tasks is forthcoming with La Barba Metafísica. She lives in New York.

Shiv Kotecha is a writer and editor living in New York. He is the author of four books of poetry: The Switch (Wonder, 2018), EXTRIGUE (Make Now, 2015), Outfits (Troll Thread, 2012), and Paint the Rock (Troll Thread, 2011). His writing appears in publications including 4Columns, Aperture, BOMB, Cultured, frieze, The Nation, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. For the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, he co-edits Cookie Jar, a pamphlet series of experimental arts writing, and teaches writing at New York University and in the MFA program at Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.

Basyma Saad is an artist and writer born in Beirut. Her work explores notions of mourning, spontaneity, and surplus, through film, performance, and sculpture, alongside essays and fiction. Basyma‘s work has been presented and screened at MoMA, The Poetry Project, CPH:DOX, and other places. Her writing appears in n+1, The New Inquiry, Protean, Spike Art, Jadaliyya, FailedArchitecture, X-TRA, and The Funambulist. She is currently working on a book of prose and poetry.

Maxi Wallenhorst is a writer living in Berlin. She’s a doctoral researcher at Leuphana University Lüneburg and a contributing editor to the Berlin Review. She is also working on a fiction project about sex after the city.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/object-of-desire

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Daan Schuurmans en Dominic Seldis nemen dit jaar opnieuw de presentatie van De Avond van de Filmmuziek op zich. Dat maakt publiciteitsbureau Royal Promotions woensdag bekend. Het evenement vindt plaats van 20 tot 22 november in de Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam.

https://www.rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/5603622/daan-schuurmans-presenteert-opnieuw-avond-van-de-filmmuziek

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'Wat is het antwoord? En waarop?’ Vijftien jaar na Jeroen Mettes’ N30

Perdu, Friday, June 5 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

This program is in Dutch.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/wat-is-het-antwoord-en-waarop-vijftien-jaar-na-jeroen-mettes-n30

to she who treads water

Perdu, Friday, May 22 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

Finding voice in a world that often only feels moved by silences and violent erasures, a cut has been made in our ability to practise. Together we try to step through. Ada Maricia Patterson and Yael Davids, together with M. Maria Walhout, call and respond through poetry, voice, sound, music and movement.

to she who treads water makes space for a close interfacing between lived experiences in this global political moment: colonial terror and the eradication of transfeminine life. With what little words we have to speak to unspeakable conditions, our bodies—inscribed by our being in this world—write back.

This project is dedicated to honouring the hesitations in finding voice; that even though our words might not be enough to move the world differently, that while our usual survival tactics and ways of making might suddenly feel toothless, surrendering to silence is not an option.

Forsaken in the wilderness, talking to God when God feels absent, floating directionless in open seas, to she who treads water offers a score that laments, grieves, rages, yearns and loves.

Hosts: Marija Cetinić & Jimena Casas.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/to-she-who-treads-water

Lines that run from each organ to the heart

Perdu, Friday, May 29 at 08:00 PM GMT+2

Lines that run from each organ to the heart is a performative evening of readings by Martín Zícari and Danielle Vorthuys.

Martín Zícari reads from Oostende (2023), a poetry collection tracing estrangement, fantasy, and memory through the mirrored topographies of Argentine Ostende and Belgian Ostend. His poems operate through deviations, disobedience and repeated bendings of orientation. Past and present cavities rearrange themselves in order to ask whether twisting our spatial, mental or sexual orientation becomes a form of deflection. Could spatial disorientation reorient desire? In his writing, inner and outer landscapes are superimposed, provoking a bifurcating destination of voice.

Danielle Vorthuys performs Corset Drama alongside Artémise Ploegaerts and Faysal Mroueh, with corset design by Anouk van Wijk. In their theatrical piece, breath becomes a moving line: both medium and constraint. Seated, the performers move from the pelvis through techniques loosely inspired by Martha Graham’s modern dance, while the corset restricts or intensifies their voices. A two-headed script, unmasking the desire of garments and fiction, of distorting alternative notions of sex and sexuality. The performance weaves in poems from Danielle’s Bad Technique, constellating narratives of excess, erratic motor memories and impulse.

Languages: Spanish, English, French.

Lines that run from each organ to the heart is an evening part of our Transatlantic Voices series. Through workshops, readings, and events, the project seeks to amplify women and queer perspectives of contemporary Latin American authors, opening up a space for resonance and resistance.

Poster designed by Alix Chauvet, with artwork by Azul Demonte

With Martín Zicari, Danielle Vorthuys, Faysal Mroueh, and Artémise Ploegaerts.

https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/lines-that-run-from-each-organ-to-the-heart

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