Leaky Turns: Stories from Amsterdam’s Waterlands
Episodes
Müge Yilmaz
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Drawing from her research on salinization and her long-standing relationship with water, Müge Yilmaz reflects on pollution, salt-loving plants, and t...
President Allendelaan 3, Amsterdam
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen alongside Müge Yilmaz to notice the presence of water, and its movement all around you.
Anne Dessing
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In her teaching project with students from Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Anne Dessing focussed on drawing water. She reflects on how the fluid and elusive ...
Veemkade 1226, Amsterdam
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen alongside Anne Dessing to feel the ground under your feet; read the place you’re in.
Radna Rumping
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following a short excerpt reading from her text Shaky Ground, Stubborn Material, Radna Rumping reflects on floating gardens in Amsterdam as poetic, se...
Overhaalsgang 44, Amsterdam
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen alongside Radna Rumping to imagine standing on a floating garden, noticing the changes in your surroundings and yourself.
René Boer
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amsterdam’s canals can be seen as both historically straightened infrastructures, and contemporary sites of queer resistance and celebration––pa...
Jonas Daniël Meijerplein, Amsterdam
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen alongside René Boer to imagine what the canal has looked like historically, and what it may yet come to look like in the future.
Mark Minkjan
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rivers generate fertile land for raw construction materials and agriculture. Mark Minkjan contemplates the intertwined histories of agriculture, clay ...
Oude Waal 21, Amsterdam
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen alongside Mark Minkjan to try to imagine the material history of the world around you.
Katía Truijen
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Through speculative listening and audio collage, Katía Truijen explores how sound can reveal erased ecologies, capitalist histories and possible futu...
Marineterrein, gebouw 001, Kattenburgerstraat 5, Amsterdam
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listen alongside Katía Truijen; remember another time when you were close to a body of water.
Michiel van Iersel
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Drawing on Arundhata Mathur and Dilip da Cunha’s concept of “ubiquitous wetness”, Michiel van Iersel considers the deceptive tranquility of wate...
Veemkade 1208, Amsterdam
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alongside Michiel van Iersel, listen back in time from a quay in Amsterdam where the sea used to be, propelling us forward in order to imagine what ...