Upcoming Saturday we have a full programme!
At 14:00 there will be a Magic (Tea) Reading session by Yegane Mehrzad in our Artivist Library: The Living Room.
Yegane Mehrzad is an artist and designer born in Iran and currently based in the Netherlands.
Situated in the fluctuating and shifting currents of the world, her practice explores her position within the socio-political and geopolitical issues. Guided by feminist, care, and resistance discourses, she draws inspiration from the curiosity of old and new knowledge and the playful wisdom of myths and nature, making her practice a vessel of reimaging the world.
The practice of “Magic reading,” inspired by fortune-telling traditions, holds spaces for collective readings. This is a participatory experience of drinking loose-leaf tea and reading the shapes of the Tea leaves in the cups. Traditionally, in Tea reading, or other methods of fortune telling, there is a fortune teller and a receiver. But, in Magic Reading, it is the participants who read their cups with my guidance, thus read their fate, taking the agency for their fate and transformation, and practicing autonomy of their narrative. As we read our cups together, we listen to each other’s realities, practicing moments of care and resilience, inspiring hope, empathy, and passion for ourselves and one another.
Read here more about Yegane Mehrzad
At 15:30 Biyi Zhu/BITSRAY will perform Get You Out of the Blue Soup in our projectspace.
Biyi Zhu (She/Her) is a Southeast China–born, Netherlands-based interdisciplinary artist, performer, and researcher working across video art, documentary, and technology-integrated performance. Drawing on her lived experience, her practice explores mobility,migration, and coexistence, reflecting on how these forces shape identities, relationships, and socio-political realities. Currently, Zhu investigates care and kinship through the domestic practices of traditional Chinese medicine and Cantonese herbal soup, engaging with non-conventional archiving, collective cultural memory, ecological imagination, and alternative narratives. Alongside video, film, and soup-making workshops, she works with
performance as process, embodying and experimenting with performativity to explore and materialize her understanding of kinship.
Get You Out of the Blue Soup
This performance engages with the theme of Composting Politics by treating food, memory, and cultural rituals as compost—materials that decompose, transform, and renew across time and space. The humble act of soup-making becomes a political and poetic gesture, carrying the fluid emotions, latent memories, and quiet strength of everyday practices. The herbs used, often by Cantonese grandmothers for healing, become an informal, living archive: something evaporative and permeable, passed down and transformed through generations.
This performance project is made possible by the Cultuurfonds.
Read more about Biyi Zhu/BITSRAY
The exhibition us open from 12:00 to 17:00