I’ve received support from the Mondriaan Fund for Rehearsing Liberation, a period of study and preparation toward COMMUNE. This phase focuses on listening carefully – through a series of interviews and dialogues – before the work takes public form. open.substack.com/pub/juhavant...

That one account on Soulseek who has Stephen O'Malley's Live Dread.

I’m happy and also relieved to share that the @mondriaanfonds.bsky.social has awarded me a grant for @communeclub.bsky.social, a new work exploring the club night as a collective practice of freedom. It follows my club installations Version (2021) and RoXY (2022–present) commune.zone

When you import mountains to fix the land, you know the cosmology is ending. www.staatsbosbeheer.nl/wat-we-doen/...

I am happy to announce I am slowly returning to my ancestral cosmology.

For the past two years, I have been researching a new film project with the working title Heidemaatschappij – Without Landscape, No Revolution. The film is built around a central question: what if the Netherlands has been “colonising” itself for centuries? open.substack.com/pub/juhavant...

9 december! Zegt het voort! ukrant.nl/hoger-onderw...

This newly-released Sam Britton (of Icarus lore) music is as good as one would hope not-applicable.bandcamp.com/album/field-...

I recently did a screening of RoXY in one of these bomb shelters in Helsinki. Deep Beneath Helsinki, the Playgrounds Are Really Bomb Shelters www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/r...

"C. Reider is a nonbinary composer living in Northern Colorado. This music is antifascist." c-reider.bandcamp.com/album/the-me...

What if the club were a classroom? What if celebration was a form of study – a way of learning how to live, care, and resist together? These questions shape COMMUNE, a new manifesto and film project I have recently started working on goodprax.is/desire/intro...

3. Club Culture as Fugitive Pedagogy The dance floor, the DJ booth, and the dark room are temporary shelters – places of rest and release – but also points of pressure where the social contract loosens. The rhythm may be four-four, but what moves through it is fugitive. http:/commune.zone/

GOOD PRAXIS — A Collective Club Night Celebrating Collective Action 9 October · 17:00–23:00 · Ubik · Rotterdam engagerotterdam.nl

What if the club night was a rehearsal for liberation? commune.zone/commune

COMMUNE grows from a question that has followed me for years: What if celebration itself is a form of pedagogy? What if the dance floor, the DJ booth, the radio show, the anticipatory gathering, the app group, and the after are all classrooms for liberation? commune.zone/commune

”There is no such thing as a white community. Whiteness is the destruction of community.” Stefano Harney podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/m...

New Kyle Hall music reminds me of prime Alton Miller: inwards, expressive and extending techno kylehall.bandcamp.com/album/about-...

More like Mark Felldman, huh @frozenreeds.com? frozenreeds.bandcamp.com/album/psychi...

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

Het is tijd voor een eerlijk verhaal voor Nederland. Doe eerlijk. Stem BIJ1

Dutch parliament just voted to recognise antifa as a terrorist organisation. We are merely weeks behind you.

The new Dutch elections respawn is upon is, choose your character: working-class fash, crypto-bro fash, boomer fash, bible fash, fash-enabling liberals, fash-enabling liberals (vegetarian).

No, and it seems like a disappointing waste of time, but it’s great to @squirrelista.bsky.social & @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social do social work. @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social plz read studies critically assessing these infrastructures, industries & their dependence/collaboration w/ FF industries.

Have you read any @drxdunlap.bsky.social, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social?

Working on something new as successor to Viral Radio (2006–2013), Anonymous (2014), and Progress Bar (2015–2020): Commune is a pedagogy of celebration and liberation. Assemblies, teachings, and gatherings. Coming in 2026. @communeclub.bsky.social

Frontlines of Power: Sonic Politics in the Democratic Republic of Congo —Diego Menjíbar Reynés for the outstanding Finnish independent online magazine @noniinmagazine.bsky.social no-niin.com/issue-31/fro...

You have to organize. I don't know what else to tell people. And organizing is not sexy and it is difficult and it matters that you be persistent. We need long-distance runners right now.

Finished a 3-week residency with Art School Maa in Helsinki with two talks on mutual aid as creative praxis at Museum of Impossible Forms juhavantzelfde.net/museum-of-im..., and a screening of RoXY at Vapaan Taiteen Tila juhavantzelfde.net/vapaan-taite...

Giving a talk at Museum of Impossible Forms in Helsinki today at 5pm, on my experiences and learnings from mutual aid as libaratory praxis

I will be sharing some live music in Paris soon

The Dutch secret service set up a fake Maoist party in the late 1960s and kept it going for decades. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist...

Vainio’s final statement. Utterly monumental. sahkorecordings.bandcamp.com/album/sysiva...

Good Praxis is art education for climate justice, building new cultures of resistance and regeneration through workshops, assemblies, and club nights. At Struer Tracks 2025: Communal Practice (Aug 14–16), we’ll explore how sound and listening can foster care, belonging, and solidarity.

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung on the dj making exhibitions in The Delusions of care in 2021 vs. Juha van ‘t Zelfde on making an exhibition as a dj in Dread—The Dizziness of Freedom in 2013

The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.” 2/2

Ursula Le Guin: “A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. 1/2

Finished this book and can't recommend it enough. You can read it yourself, help get it in libraries and help get it to prisoners.

In the wake of making RoXY during the covid lockdown, it is reinvigourating to go into the world and meet people to talk about the research that went into the film, especially the Dutch homo ludens continuum of Dada, Cobra, Situationist International, Provo & RoXY juhavantzelfde.net/the-revolt-o...

'The outward form is different, the audience is different, the time and the music are different, but ultimately RAUM is an industrial, modern version of the RoXY.' Eddy De Clercq, RoXY founder Photos: Sven Bijma Scenography: Karl Klomp & Juha van ’t Zelfde Sound system: Oskar Frere-Smith

Constant: "The history of New Babylon will begin with the establishment of a society whose economy has only one goal: to satisfy the needs of each person in the broadest sense."

i am now in my ”I don’t need sound to act, I just like sound as it is” phase of my life, 40 years too soon.

Constant in 1965: "However, the surrealists understood very well that making the world more liveable did not only mean alleviating material hardship, but that this was linked to raising the standard of living for every human being and ultimately paving the way for a creative life for everyone. 1/7

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

“For Spinoza, the whole point of life is to become capable of new things, with others. His name for this process is joy.” @joyfulcarla.bsky.social in Joyful Militancy

25 years; the unimpeachable reference point for a particular sound that only gets better with age: youtu.be/9fcwtFW4cy0?...

"Viral Radio has been at the vanguard of Amsterdam’s experimental music scene for years. The stages they programmed pulled together some of Europe’s finest experimental instrumentalists and electro-acoustic composers." 15 years ago I organised this programme at NSJ juhavantzelfde.net/north-sea-jazz

Fascism is capitalism defending irself nos.nl/l/2574289