2019

13/12 2019

rape enters the scene

12/12 2019

De Das Mag Eindejaarsshow

Gastprogramma [uitverkocht]

7/12 2019 — 8/12 2019

Tafelzuur

Gastprogramma van Theatergroep Zout

4/12 2019

Dating Apocalypse

Gastprogramma: Late Night Talks w/ Fatima Warsame

29/11 2019

One thousand milligrams vitamin C

26/11 2019

De biografie in psychoanalyse

Elisabeth Lockhorn over Andreas Burnier

22/11 2019

Clarities

an evening with Cammisa Buerhaus, Geo Wyeth,
and Ivan Cheng

15/11 2019

The Worlds and Works of
Janelle Monáe

1/11 2019

Open Microfoon

Perdu's tweede open mic!

20/10 2019

Radical
Read-in

A Sunday afternoon in Black Achievement Month

12/10 2019

An Intimate Approach

Perdu tijdens Read My World

8/10 2019

De tijdgeest duiden

De Biografie in psychoanalyse

27/9 2019

The Currents

Een gesprek over gemeenschap, kritiek en herkenning

28/6 2019

Ageing Versus Immortality

EINDFEEST: 35 JAAR PERDU!

27/6 2019

Eindpresentatie schrijfworkshop

21/6 2019

'Cause the written word is mineral

Charles Bernstein and Susan Bee return to Perdu!

19/6 2019

[FULLY BOOKED] Radical Read-In with Eileen Myles + Screening 'The Trip'

11/6 2019

[SOLD OUT] Something unearthly about today

An evening with Eileen Myles

7/6 2019

Belonging in the Mess II

Repercussions of a Malfunctioning System

31/5 2019

Mona Kareem & Momtaza Mehri

On Lineage and Lingua

30/5 2019

Perdu X Marché de La Poésie

24/5 2019

World is Constantly Touching

Op zoek naar de kritische mogelijkheden van intuïtief werk

22/5 2019

Rosily I Will Squander Myself

An evening with Lisa Robertson and Mia You

17/5 2019

Thinking through (to) the end of the world

Life before, during and after the apocalypse

10/5 2019

A Flower Garden of All Kinds of Loveliness Without Sorrow

A programme guest-curated by artist Christian Nyampeta

3/5 2019

Found in Translation

A programme guest-curated by Urok Shirhan

19/4 2019

Vers van het Mes XXXIX

Perdu, deBuren en de Nwe Tijd slaan wederom de handen ineen voor een nieuwe editie!

12/4 2019

Open microfoon

Perdu's allereerste open mic!

6/4 2019

Beyond the Sentence – Stein as Open Text

A co-production of Gertrude Stein European Network, Perdu and Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON)'s Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Group (Utrecht University)

5/4 2019

Longing for, in the mud

Looking for liminality in abjection

29/3 2019

Onze * Tori

Perdu i.s.m. The Black Archives: Woordkunst over verborgen verhalen

22/3 2019

Onder dieren

Hoe verhouden we ons tot dieren? Of beter gezegd: tot andere dieren?

15/3 2019

Poem as storm, not as refuge

Poëzie als interventie

8/3 2019

Historical Debris

Collecting the leftovers of history

1/3 2019

Am I lovely? Of course!

Drie Russische dichters te gast + presentatie Tijd van de aarde van Galina Rymboe

22/2 2019

Perdu Leest Langzaam #7

We lezen de nieuwe bundel van Anneke Brassinga: Verborgen tuinen

15/2 2019

Perdu Invites: Twee Roemeense dichters

Met Doina Ioanid, Claudiu Komartin en hun vertaler Jan H. Mysjkin

8/2 2019

The Worlds and Works of Octavia E. Butler

De derde avond in onze sciencefictionreeks!

31/1 2019

30+30 Dichters­marathon 2019

DIT EVENEMENT IS UITVERKOCHT!

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17 mei 20:00 2019

Thinking through (to) the end of the world

Life before, during and after the apocalypse

Praktisch

Doors open: 19:30
Start: 20:00
Entrance: €9 / €6 (discount)
All contributions in English, except Joost Oomen's

Met
Bezig met verzenden..
Gelukt en hiermee bevestigd!

On the 17th of May, Perdu will attempt to think through (to) the end of the world, the one that’s currently taking shape.

Humanity’s place in the world has never been more uncertain. If it’s even possible to save something, it has become clear – and it’s still becoming clearer by the year – that this historical and geological period will be a difficult one for life on this planet, at least partly because of human intervention and influence. Our fault in this has become hidden behind the stories we've told ourselves; about technological progress as the solution to any problem, about supremacy as an inevitability of human nature and about nature as something outside of us.

Echoing Donna Haraway - "It matters what stories tell stories. It matters what thoughts think thoughts. It matters what worlds make worlds" - we wish to counter the stories of progress, supremacy and 'nature'. Through inviting the perspectives of Anne Boyer, Arno van Vlierberghe, Jayna Brown and Joost Oomen (via audio), Perdu holds space to envision and listen to alternative stories. That is, also, to inquire into new possibilities as well as ways of grieving over a world we are slowly losing. We would love to have you with us.

Joost Oomen is a Dutch poet and writer. His work includes the books of poetry collections Vliegenierswonden and De stort and the novella De zon als hij valt.

Anne Boyer is a poet and essayist. Her poetry books include The Romance of Happy Workers, My Common Heart, and the 2016 CLMP award-winning Garments Against Women. Her most recent book is a collection of essays and fables called A Handbook of Disappointed Fate, and a memoir, The Undying, is forthcoming in August.

Jayna Brown is an assistant professor at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Her areas of knowledge and interest include black expressive cultures, film, queer of color critique, anarchism, materialism and science fiction. Her new book, Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds traces black radical utopian practice and performance, from the psychic travels of Sojourner Truth to the cosmic transmissions of Alice Coltrane and Sun Ra.

Arno Van Vlierberghe is a poet, essayist and literary critic living and working in Ghent. His debut Vloekschrift was published in 2017 and was nominated for the C. Buddingh prize.