DARKMATTER presents: Sapodilla
DARKMATTER presents: Sapodilla
Sapodilla is DARKMATTER Collective’s signature electronic music event, presenting a listening session inside W139 with local and international artists. Since its launch in 2022, Sapodilla has reimagined club culture as a space where electronic sound, artistic experimentation and community converge, centring marginalised voices and diasporic perspectives.
Named after a fruit native to the tropical Americas, with deep roots in Indigenous histories of cultivation and knowledge, Sapodilla takes the fruit as a symbol of movement and cultural transformation. Its journeys across the Caribbean and beyond resonate with DARKMATTER’s engagement with histories shaped by indigeneity, colonialism, slavery, migration and creolisation - and with the cultures and communities that have endured, transformed and flourished through them.
Sapodilla at W139 is part of The Nature of Remembering, a group exhibition initiated by artist Lawil Karama in conversation with historian Megan Hoetger, featuring multimedia research projects that move between interrogation of normative memory politics and co-experimentation with environmental and more-than-human bodies. The Nature of Remembering is on show from September 4th until November 1st 2026.
Line up to be announced.
W139 is a leading production and presentation space for contemporary art in the centre of Amsterdam that has been paving the way for experimentation and new modes of autonomy, self-organisation, and collectivity within the arts for 44 years.
W139 is a leading production and presentation space for contemporary art in the centre of Amsterdam that has been paving the way for experimentation and new modes of autonomy, self-organisation, and collectivity within the arts for 44 years.
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