WASTELAND x HAMBURGER COMMUNITY
What’s Happening?!

Thursday 24 July
Happening by the Hamburger Community
Time and Location TBC

Get excited for the first Happening by Roodkapje’s new round of the Hamburger Community residents as they join forces with Collective Wasteland! We can’t wait for you to get to know the amazing artists who will be developing another series of Happenings together.

The Hamburger Community are five artists in residence that collaborate for ten months. Roodkapje is interested in the intersections of art, activism, and wonder. We see the Happening as an art form full of playful, disruptive and subversive potential. In light of today’s dire social, ecological and political circumstances, we ask the Hamburger Community: how would you as contemporary artists reimagine, reshape, and organize a Happening?

This year, Collective Wasteland holds a mentorship position for the Hamburger Community. Together they take a deep dive into the themes of the festival. Expect to be surprised, immersed and challenged. Stay tuned for more details..

WASTELAND Festival 2025: OUT OF SIGHT
WASTELAND ‘25 invites wide audiences to examine our relationship with waste and possible ways out of the current waste crisis. The festival offers a platform for critical reflection on the complexity of waste ecologies and aims to understand waste as a heritage. As such, it influences us individually and collectively through its local and geopolitical implications and impacts more-than-human life in a time of unprecedented global pollution.
Taking a site-specific approach, WASTELAND’S 2025 program explores the (infra)structures of waste in and beyond the Anthropocene. This era is defined by humanity's profound impact on the planet and geologically marked by the emergence of new types of waste. Key sites of the waste management infrastructure in the city and the port of Rotterdam are Wasteland’s starting points; they are operational, yet hidden and forgotten. Together, we dive into what practices and systems enable and disturb the illusion of a utopian city, from landfills and recycling centres to waste collectors, statiegeld mafia, pigeons and rats.

collective.wasteland
collective.wasteland (Katya Borisova, Yannik Güldner, Leon Lapa Pereira, Erik Peters and Anne Vera Veen) is an interdisciplinary art collective dedicated to artistic research and collaborative experiments that address the complexities of waste ecologies. Recognising the pervasive nature of the ongoing waste crisis, we believe that building alternatives for current troubled times requires a collective effort. Through research projects and public programs such as Wasteland Festival we aim to stimulate collaborative projects and forge connections amongst (inter)national partners in fields of art, activism, industry, and academia.