waiting_for_cows at VHDG,
Leeuwarden
Opening: 18th April 2025 17:00
On show from 18th April - 18th May 2025
VHDG, Naauw 6-8 Leeuwarden
waiting_for_cows will travel to VHDG in Leeuwarden from 18th April. This installation offers rare glimpses into contemporary farm life, showing how both humans and animals are entangled in systems of data collection, efficiency, productivity, and time management. Our research, along with a short documentary of the farmer and collaborator, Fokke Terpstra, will be previewed alongside the installation.
Information
For more information about waiting_for_cows, see the project page.
Will We Bleed in Outer Space?
At Independent School for the City, Rotterdam
23rd April 2025
19:00-21:00 (Doors open 18:30)
Independent School for the City,
Robert Fruinstraat 52, Rotterdam
This gossip session explores the design of living and working environments for menstruators beyond Earth. Situated within a feminist praxis (reclaiming gossip as a source of knowledge sharing), this event examines the current status of menstruation in outer space, led by architect Thaïs Zuchetti and former NASA space gynaecologist Dr Varsha Jain.
Information
For details on the event and tickets, check Independent School for the City’s website.
For more information about Bloody Beautiful, see the project page.
waiting_for_cows: Field Trip, Leeuwarden
25th April 2025
11:00-16:00
Meeting place: VHDG, Naauw 6-8 Leeuwarden
On 25 April we will make a one-of-a-kind field trip to Friesland. We welcome you into the fascinating world of cows and their technology rituals.
The day will start with a viewing of our work waiting_for_cows at art space VHDG in the beautiful city centre of Leeuwarden. Then we will travel directly to the source – Okkingastate, an organic dairy farm in the heart of Friesland. We have been given unique access for *one day only* to bring a group of our friends and interested thinkers, makers and doers to this farm where we have been filming and working (on and off) for the past 2 years. Here we will meet the 3 main characters of our latest work waiting_ for_cows. Robina, Margo and Aergentina are all mixed breed dairy cows. We will see first hand how their milking robot operates at the centre of the farm yard. And we will be in direct conversation with our collaborators: dairy farmers Fokke Terpstra & Tineke de Groot. We have invited culinary artist Asli Hatipoğlu to create a unique food experience on site. Bites will be served in the barn alongside the herd.
Information
For the full programme and tickets, click here.
Bloody Beautiful x Amsterdam Museum, part of AM Laat: Vrouwen van Amsterdam
23rd May 2025
19:30-20:15
Amsterdam Museum, Amstel 51, Amsterdam
In this unique collaboration between Bloody Beautiful and the Amsterdam Museum we pay homage to some of the first Dutch women who documented and shared their experiences of menstruation. We will dive into a little-seen-before archive of letters, collected and saved by feminist Elly Brink between 1970 and 1980 and later re-discovered by curator Debra Knoop. The Bloody Beautiful team has designed a live event where we reflect and read from this unmissable feminist archive that chronicles the everyday experiences, shame, taboo and defiance of women from a previous generation; and relate these stories to our current movement for womxn’s rights.
This event will be held in Dutch.
Information
For details on the event and tickets, check Amsterdam Museum’s website.
For more information about Bloody Beautiful, see the project page.