Plantage Dok

Human.VPN/someplace_else (dance graffiti) by Marina Orlova (Try out)
2026-04-09 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-04-23 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Dokzaal
Immersive hybrid dance and digital performance that connects topics of virtual presence, border politics and psychological dissociation.

VPN is a technology used to misrepresent digital location. Dissociation is a coping mechanism of emotional detachment from reality. Information society makes it easy to feel that we are witnessing events happening elsewhere. It is hard not to become emotionally affected, especially for people with migrant backgrounds and those around them. Doomscrolling blends real and virtual worlds. “Human.VPN” is a metaphor for the mismatch between one’s emotional and physical geolocation.
Two dancers interact with a projection of a digital map that is operated live. By relating their bodies to it, they create physical, digital and fictional trajectories, offering the audience to montage with their own experiences of geopolitical presence/abscence.
This project is a “collective geography self-study” focusing on global interconnectedness and suggesting to use shared geopolitical disorientation and ‘not knowing’ to create togetherness.
The performance is followed by facilitated discussion with the audience.

Choreographer, performer: Marina Orlova
Performer, collaborator: Valeryia Le
Dramaturgical advisor, performer: Asya Deinekina
Sound designer, performer: Arieh Chrem
Advisor, collaborator: Maria Mavridou
Research collaborator: Xdzunúm Danae Trejo Boles
Producer: Marina Orlova, co-producers: Irina Prostakova, Nils Rottgardt, Frascati Producties, Orangerie Theater.
Development support: Un-Label Studio, The Grey Space in the Middle, 4bid gallery, Plantage Dok.
Financial support: crowdfunding campaign at Voordekunst, Cultuurfonds, WE Jansen Fonds.
Big thanks to: Irina Orlova, Frederike Manders, Sonia Kazovsky, Burkhard Körner, Martina Novak, Ulrike Neumann, YuJing Liu and all the donors of the crowdfunding campaign that made this project possible.

Marina Orlova (1987) is an independent dance/theatre maker, tech-dramaturg and AI researcher based in Amsterdam. She received education in sociology in Moscow and in experimental choreography at the Amsterdam Academy of Theatre and Dance.
Marina works with topics of human-AI relationships, mental health, migration and border politics. She creates interdisciplinary performances that combine her background in sociology, curiosity for technology, choreographic methodologies and lived knowledge of marginalised communities. Marina mediates between engineering logic and theatrical devices, using technology as metaphor and mirror to societal issues. She works within aesthetics of absurdism, tragicomedy and autofiction.
Marina’s theatre performance “I’m a Robot and I need Therapy” was presented at Frascati Theater in Amsterdam, Veem House for Performance, Flam Festival, Next Level Festival in Dortmund, Worm Rotterdam. Her lecture-performance “Why robots need therapy” was presented Next Nature Digital Wellness Show; Society 5.0 Festival; de Balie; Mesh Festival (Basel); Korzo Theater; Iterations Symposium; and in various academic settings.
Marina’s artistic practice also includes writing, teaching and facilitating a support group for “artists in distress”.
https://marina-or-not.github.io/

Benefit supporting legal costs for survival of gender violence
2026-04-10 17:00 - 22:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
On the 10th of April, we are organising a Voku and a music concert evening to support our comrade, who is a survivor of gender violence and needs financial support for the legal costs. It will start with eating together, and then a performance by a hip-hop artist, FIG Thief, will follow. He is an MC as well as a DJ on the turntables, who plays a wide range of genres, ranging from underground hip-hop from the roots to more experimental hybrid trip-hop sounds. The performance will have guest appearances by other artists with acoustic instruments and poetic interventions.

The event is organized by Bad For The Egosystem, a collective that focuses on arts and ways to mediate our curiosity through different modes of expression. They aim to transcend the boundaries between us, the social settings, and the formalities that reproduce distinctions rather than fruitful frictions.

Wasteless Wednesday – dinner by TBYW
2026-04-15 18:30 - 20:30, 2026-04-22 18:30 - 20:30, 2026-04-29 18:30 - 20:30 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
With surplus food from our partner grocery shops in the Javastraat, that would have gone for waste, our professional cooks and food ambassadors present the most environmentally conscious, healthy, delicious, vegan choice for your get together with friends and the neighbourhood.
In salvaging food and using it for our dinners we reduce food waste, but we also take the opportunity to share our story with you and show you creative ways to deal with your (imperfect) produce, hopefully inspiring you to implement a less wasteful behaviour at home.

First-come first-served basis

Dok Night- SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA
2026-04-16 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Every Thursday there’s a Vegan Dinner accompanying an exhibition opening/closing, a live performance, live music, movie screening or …
Come meet other people interested in art and activism, good food and great prices. Bring your favourite game and your friends. Or meet new people at the bar.

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18 open
19 Vegan Food by JAER Kitchen
20:30 SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA
Presented by Jeffrey Badcock
A series of socially engaged movies, screened once a month on Thursdays. Touching on such hot topics as immigration, homelessness, racism, education, radical gender propositions, the pandemic and gentrification, these films not only explore visionary politics, but are also chosen to stir our imagination and creativity. The essence of cinema is the collective experience, and these screenings are aimed at creating intimate communities again in an increasingly hectic and fragmented world.

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Monthly exhibition Hidden Faces by Viktor Lantosh
About the “Hidden Faces” project
“Hidden Faces” is the result of roughly one year of photographic exploration across Amsterdam and beyond. The series reveals how non-living objects can form expressive “faces” that seem to watch over the city. Viktor hopes attendees will approach the exhibition with curiosity—open to discovering something playful, unexpected, even whimsical in their everyday urban environment: “I want people to step out of their daily routines and look at their city with fresh eyes. The buildings and objects around and look at their city with fresh eyes. The buildings and objects around us hold stories… all we need is a moment of attention to see them.”

Fundraiser to launch the Sisters to Sisters project in Ethiopia
2026-04-19 15:00 - 20:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dinner, Art & music.
..more info is coming soon..

Dok Night - Dokhuis AiR presents: Human. VPN/someplace_else
2026-04-23 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Every Thursday there’s a Vegan Dinner accompanying an exhibition opening/closing, a live performance, live music, movie screening or …
Come meet other people interested in art and activism, good food and great prices. Bring your favourite game and your friends. Or meet new people at the bar.
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Monthly exhibition Hidden Faces by Viktor Lantosh
About the “Hidden Faces” project
“Hidden Faces” is the result of roughly one year of photographic exploration across Amsterdam and beyond. The series reveals how non-living objects can form expressive “faces” that seem to watch over the city. Viktor hopes attendees will approach the exhibition with curiosity—open to discovering something playful, unexpected, even whimsical in their everyday urban environment: “I want people to step out of their daily routines and look at their city with fresh eyes. The buildings and objects around and look at their city with fresh eyes. The buildings and objects around us hold stories… all we need is a moment of attention to see them.”

MOLK Night
2026-04-25 20:00 - 23:30
MOLK NIGHT presents
Josh Berman Trio (Chicago – US) with Jason Roebke and Chris Corsano
James McClure 4t (Cape Town – SA)

Record release concert “A dizziness from the unsaid”
Molk Records

Doors: 20:00
Concert: 20:30

Dok Night- Benefit dinner by Het Laatste Avondmaal
2026-04-30 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Dok Night
2026-05-07 18:00 - 23:00, 2026-05-14 18:00 - 23:00, 2026-05-21 18:00 - 23:00, 2026-05-28 18:00 - 23:00, 2026-06-04 18:00 - 23:00, 2026-06-11 18:00 - 23:00, 2026-06-18 18:00 - 23:00, 2026-06-25 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Every Thursday there’s a Vegan Dinner accompanying an exhibition opening/closing, a live performance, live music, movie screening or …
Come meet other people interested in art and activism, good food and great prices. Bring your favourite game and your friends. Or meet new people at the bar.
More info about the program is coming soon…
