BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:22680@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:SPROUTS – ECO EXPO DTSTAMP:20260520T231318Z DTSTART:20260601T171500Z DESCRIPTION:Archives are never neutral. They are acts of selection\, shaped by power\, loss\,\nand forgetting. For the 2026 Eco Expo of Sprouts Film Festival\, three artists\nglean from what remains: a parasitic flower evol ving through plastic pollution\,\na fictional Caribbean island scarred by colonization and memory loss\, and a\ndisabled bull\, sole survivor of a c olonial herd exterminated on a remote Indian\nOcean island. Together\, the ir works ask what grows when we return to what was\nleft behind\, and how inherited images\, objects\, and histories can be composted\ninto new ecol ogies of meaning.\n\nSchedule:\n\n1 – 7 June\nmo. 17:00 – 22:00\ntue. – fr i. 14:00 – 22:00\nsat. – sun. 11:00 – 22:00\n\n\nLOU ELIE DIT COSAQUE\n\nL ou Elie dit Cosaque (b. 2002\, Paris) is a French-Caribbean textile artist \nliving and working in Amsterdam. Her artistic practice explores textiles and\nlanguage to weave stories and mythologies that connect forgotten Car ibbean\nmemories\, symbols and imagination. She seeks to give form to worl ds that\nreimagine lost pasts and envision alternative futures. At the cor e of her\npractice is an exploration of identity\, as a patchwork of cultu res\, a layered\nhistory shaped by colonization\, resilience and exchange. \n\nOstreoidea is a fictional living land that serves as a mirror to gaze into\nCaribbean histories. Grown from soft soil and humid air\, she is sha ped by\ncolonization\, memory loss\, and survival. But Ostreoidea is not j ust a memory\, it\nis also a rebellion. The island\, once colonized by a h igh-tech utopian society\,\nsaw its soil poisoned and its rhythms disrupte d by a civilization drunk on\nprogress yet blind to consequence.\n\nMusic composition: Louise Baux\n\n\nJORI(K) A. GALAMA\n\nJori(k) A. Galama works across fine art\, literature\, and cinema. They graduated\nfrom the Artis tic Research in and through Cinema Master’s programme at the\nNetherlands Film Academy. Their fiction and essays on art and cinema have\nappeared in Metropolis M\, De Revisor\, Tirade\, Kluger Hans\, Tubelight\, De\nIntern et Gids\, and various other artists’ publications. They currently work\npr imarily as a documentary director and creative producer\, with a focus on\ ncritically engaged ecological perspectives.\n\nYntolerânsje (2025) is a s peculative archive essay film tracing the entangled\nhistories of cows\, t he Dutch colonial empire\, and Frisian identity. It departs\nfrom the stor y of Île Amsterdam\, a remote Indian Ocean island where five cows\nleft by 19th-century European settlers multiplied into a herd of two thousand.\nD eemed an ecological threat\, the herd was exterminated by the French gover nment\nin 2010\, save for one disabled bull\, now living in a Frisian cow retirement\nhome.\n\n\nERIK PETERS\n\nThe World’s Green is Rotting Lime\n\ nErik Peters is an interdisciplinary artist and artistic researcher engagi ng with\nthe worldbuilding potentialities seeded in the act of storytellin g\, uncovering\nhow speculative fiction can germinate new universes of bei ng through\ncollaborative formats of making\, researching and staging. Exp loring queer\necology as a roadmap to alternative futures\, they weave pat hways between the\npossible worlds persistently emerging from a world in p lanetary crises.\n\nThe World’s Green is Rotting Lime is an ecopoetic audi ovisual installation that\nspeculates on future ecologies emerging from pl astic pollution. The work follows\nthe discovery of a new parasitic flower morphospecies that has evolved to adapt\nto the infiltrating amounts of m icroplastics found in the earth’s layers. The\nwork is produced in collabo ration with Funda Baysal (3d-printed ceramics)\, Ymer\nMarinus (audiovisua ls) and Jao San Pedro (translation and narration). URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/sprouts-eco-expo GEO:52.3651201;4.9359245 LOCATION:Studio K - Timorplein 62\, 1094 CC Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:alternative,amsterdam-oost,documentary,ecology,exhibition,festiv als,film,indische buurt,music,queer,stories,storytelling X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Archives are never neutral. They are acts of selection, shaped by power, loss, and forgetting. For the 2026 Eco Exp o of Sprouts Film Festival, three artists glean from what remains: a paras itic flower evolving through plastic pollution, a fictional Caribbean isla nd scarred by colonization and memory loss, and a disabled bull, sole surv ivor of a colonial herd exterminated on a remote Indian Ocean island. Toge ther, their works ask what grows when we return to what was left behind, a nd how inherited images, objects, and histories can be composted into new ecologies of meaning.

Schedule:

1 – 7 June
mo. 17:00 – 22:00
tue. – fri. 14:00 – 22:00
sat. – sun. 11:00 – 22:00

Lou Elie dit Cosaque

Lou Elie dit Cosaqu e (b. 2002, Paris) is a French-Caribbean textile artist living and working in Amsterdam. Her artistic practice explores textiles and language to wea ve stories and mythologies that connect forgotten Caribbean memories, symb ols and imagination. She seeks to give form to worlds that reimagine lost pasts and envision alternative futures. At the core of her practice is an exploration of identity, as a patchwork of cultures, a layered history sha ped by colonization, resilience and exchange.

Ostreoidea is a fict ional living land that serves as a mirror to gaze into Caribbean histories . Grown from soft soil and humid air, she is shaped by colonization, memor y loss, and survival. But Ostreoidea is not just a memory, it is also a re bellion. The island, once colonized by a high-tech utopian society, saw it s soil poisoned and its rhythms disrupted by a civilization drunk on progr ess yet blind to consequence.

Music composition: Louise Baux

Jori(k) A. Galama

Jori(k) A. Galama w orks across fine art, literature, and cinema. They graduated from the Arti stic Research in and through Cinema Master’s programme at the Netherlands Film Academy. Their fiction and essays on art and cinema have appeared in Metropolis M, De Revisor, Tirade, Kluger Hans, Tubelight, De Internet Gids , and various other artists’ publications. They currently work primarily a s a documentary director and creative producer, with a focus on critically engaged ecological perspectives.

Yntolerânsje (2025) is a speculat ive archive essay film tracing the entangled histories of cows, the Dutch colonial empire, and Frisian identity. It departs from the story of Île Am sterdam, a remote Indian Ocean island where five cows left by 19th-century European settlers multiplied into a herd of two thousand. Deemed an ecolo gical threat, the herd was exterminated by the French government in 2010, save for one disabled bull, now living in a Frisian cow retirement home.

Erik Peters

The World’s Green is Rotting Lim e

Erik Peters is an interdisciplinary artist and artistic researcher en gaging with the worldbuilding potentialities seeded in the act of storytel ling, uncovering how speculative fiction can germinate new universes of be ing through collaborative formats of making, researching and staging. Expl oring queer ecology as a roadmap to alternative futures, they weave pathwa ys between the possible worlds persistently emerging from a world in plane tary crises.

The World’s Green is Rotting Lime is an ecopoetic audi ovisual installation that speculates on future ecologies emerging from pla stic pollution. The work follows the discovery of a new parasitic flower m orphospecies that has evolved to adapt to the infiltrating amounts of micr oplastics found in the earth’s layers. The work is produced in collaborati on with Funda Baysal (3d-printed ceramics), Ymer Marinus (audiovisuals) an d Jao San Pedro (translation and narration).

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