POST Arnhem
ECHO
ECHO | PLAYTIME!
Wednesday June 3
20:00 - 22:00
POST – ARNHEM: Weverstraat 40
Language: English
Regular Fee: €5 –, includes one beverage
Students: €2,50, includes one beverage
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How do children claim spaces through play? How is leisure time linked to social inequality? How do we experience individual and collective freedom?
On Wednesday, June 3, just before the finissage of the PLAYTIME! exhibition, POST is organizing an in-depth evening event titled ECHO. During this evening, artist Lisa Matthys, artist Priscilla Fernandes, and curator Eva Burgering will share their perspectives on the exhibition. Each will spend twenty minutes sharing their thoughts on play and free time, thereby offering a mosaic of perspectives.
In PLAYTIME!, artists invite visitors of all generations to reflect on urgent social themes through play, participation, and worldbuilding. Through participation, interaction, and gaming, the exhibition demonstrates that play can be a powerful tool for social change.
Lisa Matthys often creates projects centered on children, as is the case with POST. By connecting play to socio-political contexts, she positions it as a space for resistance, imagination, and alternative forms of coexistence. Her construction playground De Werf demonstrates how children appropriate vacant plots of land in the city. In an interview with PLAYTIME! curator Bas Hendrikx, she shares more about her work and perspective.
Eva Burgering, curator of the exhibition Out of Office (Still Here) at Nest in The Hague, discusses her exhibition, which explores how people experience summer vacation when they stay home, and highlights how leisure time is linked to social inequality, access to recreation, and the role of the city and public space. Out of Office transforms Nest into a summer gathering place where play, togetherness, and critical reflection on vacation and leisure take center stage.
Priscila Fernandes, who is currently exhibiting her work at both POST in Arnhem and Nest in The Hague, discusses her artistic practice through the two works she is showing in both exhibitions. Through a speculative and humorous approach, her work raises questions about the concept of individual and collective freedom, particularly in the context of uncertainty, the commodification of time, and the looming presence of violence in contemporary societies.