The Order of Disappearance | DARK WEEKends
- 25 October 2025
What does mortality mean in an era where nothing truly disappears? Art collective playField, resident at GUM & Plantentuin, explores how our approach to death and remembrance is changing in a digital eternity.
What does mortality mean in an age where nothing truly disappears? Art collective playField, resident at GUM & Botanical Garden, explores how our relationship with death and memory is changing in a digital eternity.
During DARKWEEKends, you will discover the first traces of this research. Fragments of a thinking and creative process in motion emerge at GUM. No definitive answers, but openings and invitations to observe what fades away and what lives on.
One of these traces is The Order of Disappearance: a collective embroidery project. Take a seat at the table at playField and be part of a unique experience that interweaves personal stories and rituals. While a text is read aloud, you get to work yourself. As you embroider, a space for exchange emerges: about mortality, about what disappears and what remains. A tangible counterweight to the digital speed with which we try to ward off death today.
Take a needle and thread, listen in, and add your own stitch. No experience is necessary; everyone can participate. Would you like to join us?
Sat 25 October | 14:00-15:00, 16:00-17:00
Admission with your museum ticket
(c) Bram Verrecas
