Tools for Action

19/05/2023

In Breda, Giving a summer school workshop ‘Floating Assembly; don’t forget your swimsuit!’!!

💥 𝗦𝗨𝗠𝗠𝗘𝗥 𝗦𝗖𝗛𝗢𝗢𝗟 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘-𝗨𝗣 💥
Let’s get blown away by these masters! We’re happy to share that these four international designers and artists will join us during Summer School.

Each have prepared an educational and inspiring programme for you. In three days you will get to work with inflatables, kites - and everything that goes with them - and have lots of fun.

🎈Tools for Action - KiteLab - Damien Poulain - Steve Messam 🎈

Check out the masterclasses: https://graphicmatters.nl/en/summer-school-2023/

Monday 22/5 registration opens (an earlybird discount applies in the first two weeks)

02/09/2022

The Mirror Barricade is a social sculpture consisting of silver reflective inflatable cubes that can be assembled within seconds into a barricade; when thrown into the air, the cubes turn the street into a playground.

The poetic and lightweight tools were designed by art-activist group Tools for Action founded by visual artist Bambi van B***n. The tools have been used to protest a Neo-Nazi march in Dortmund together with the Theater of Dortmund in 2016. In so-called Barricade Ballets, choreographic formations for collectivity and disobedience were rehearsed with more then two hundred fifty participants that were enacted on the day of protest.

In 2022 Theatre Rotterdam rebuilt a new edition in the context of Track R.I.O.T. (ready in order to) of Alida Dors: inflatable barricades from gold, turning the audience into active participants; practising self-organisation and direct action to conjure a shimmering future for all.

25/08/2021

Opening tonight at Freiraum - MuseumsQuartier in Vienna: Overground Resistance an exhibition about Climate Activism curated by Oliver Ressler. Tools for Action´s Red Line Barricade that was in action in Paris during the COP 21 is part of the show.

Participating artists and activists:

Tiago de Aragão (BRA), Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio (USA), Noel Douglas (GBR), Francisco Huichaqueo (Mapuche Nation/CHL), Gilbert Kills Pretty Enemy III (Hunkpapa Lakota of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe/USA), Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner & Aka Niviâna (MHL/GRL), Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination (FRA), The Natural History Museum (USA), Oliver Ressler (AUT), Rachel Schragis (USA), Seday (FRA), Jonas Staal (NLD), Tools for Action (HUN/NLD)

MQ: Exhibition Overground Resistance brings together artists who produce their works in dialogue with the climate justice movements in which they consider themselves participants:

02/07/2021

RÆV REHEARSAL- How to move a dancing radiating swarm through the streets. Now happening every friday summer night on a secret location in Rotterdam. Get in touch and join us! https://www.instagram.com/raevingswarm/?hl=en

02/07/2021

RÆV REHEARSAL. How to move and dance as a swarm and reclaim the streets! Now happening every friday night in Rotterdam. Follow us on our fresh Instagram account:
https://www.instagram.com/raevingswarm/?hl=en

Join Us!

02/07/2021

RÆV REHEARSAL on Thursday 1th of juli..

27/05/2021

"The most dangerous thing is silence" - Juli Salamanca Cortes

This podcast by René Boer and Charlie Clemoes from Failed Architecture was recorded just after our last , when we did a collective dance through the Red light district and reflected about our swarming - situations, the difference and similarity on the conditions of s*x work in Bogotá and Amsterdam, the idea of silence as a form of silencing and social cleaning happening in Amsterdam and Bogotá. Contributions also by Floor, me and Patri Roa Johansen from Papaya Kuir.
+++ Tonight at 9.00 pm sharp we start our 3rd , this time accompanied by MC Mustaj! +++

This Spring, Failed Architecture initiated "Situations", an event series, that aims to take critical reflections on architecture and space from the digital realm to the real world. This Breezeblock ta

24/05/2021

This Thursday 27th of May 9:00 pm we will conduct a new and Soundswarm Rehearsal with Failed Architecture: Reclaiming the Red Light. We will be dancing as a swarm with speakers through the streets, reviving the crowds and sonic dimension of this historic q***r neighboorhood. We are lucky to be accompanied with DJ tunes by MC Mustaj!! And a warm up of Mohamed Boujarra. we call especially s*x workers and q***r souls to come. To know the location, please text Floor one day before(0618740441)

More info here: https://failedarchitecture.com/events/fa-situations-3-reclaiming-the-red-light-district/

and here an ab fab music video of MC Mustaj:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mHqEITr9EY

Thanks to the beautiful community of Amsterdam for making this video possible!!!Lyrics and music by MC Mustaj Follow me on insta: MC_MustajVideo direction: T...

14/05/2021

One more promo! More info here:
http://www.toolsforaction.net/ravers-wanted/

13/05/2021

Tools for Action + Floor is looking for volunteer ravers / q***r souls for the new project RÆV REHEARSAL. We will organize a series of pop-up raves in the streets of Rotterdam from Mid-June onwards. The idea is to rehearse collective movement, so we can become a dancing radiating swarm that moves through the city. Interested? Please find here more info!
http://www.toolsforaction.net/ravers-wanted/

30/04/2021

Yesterday took place! As a dancing swarm we moved through the streets of the Red Light District accompanied by latino beats ("the police is gonorrhea") by DJ Juli Salamanca Cortes from the Red Comunitaria Trans, the transgender s*xworkers organisation from Bogotá. The intent of the event was to bring back life to the Red Light district.

In our podcast after talk, Juli Salamanca draws parallels between the situation of s*x work in Bogotá and Amsterdam. “The silence of the pandemic is dangerous. They want to silence us. To do a social cleansing... to erase the identities of s*xworkers, trans people, people of color.” Swarming the Red Light (with sound) was the second experiment in a series of situations. This intervention was organised by Failed Architecture in collaboration with Tools for Action + Floor. DJing by Juli Salamanca Cortes and assisted by fabulous Molta. We were also accompanied by Patri Roa Johansen and others of Papaya Kuir!

As this felt incredibly liberating and good, you can imagine this is only the beginning. Stay tuned and come dance with us soon!