The term weekender comes from the club scene and refers to events that fill the weekend with collective experience and a release from linear time. AM.PM.AM. is a continuous experience with fluid forms of interaction between art and audience. For each edition, Nest collaborates with an artist or collective, featuring contributions from interdisciplinary creators: from DJs and performers to visual artists and collectives.
Nest transforms with each weekender. Boundaries between disciplines blur again and again, shaped by the vision of the guest curator—from musical stage to audiovisual installation, with rehearsals, installations, and interactive moments alternating throughout. As a visitor, you're invited to move freely through the spaces, jumping from exhibition space to club environment. The creative process takes center stage and unfolds within a constantly changing scenography.
During the weekenders, you can expect a wide-ranging program: from performances, listening sessions, and installations to DJ sets, concerts, open rehearsals, film screenings, workshops, and conversations with the artists.
About Weekender 1: Tutto Questo Sentire
Tutto Questo Sentire (TQS) is a creative collective that explores the connection between different art forms. Since 2014, it has brought together artists from music, visual art, and performance, with a focus on sound and how it relates to video, time, environment, and live performance.
At the heart of their work lies the question: What remains after a creative experience or performance ends? TQS explores this by creating moments in which both space and audience become active participants in the artistic process. From the industrial spaces of Het HEM to the classical setting of Rome’s botanical gardens, from concert halls to experimental club venues, TQS treats every location as a laboratory to push the boundaries between sound, space, and the human experience.
Collaboration is a core principle of the collective: TQS works through long-term relationships and friendships with artists, musicians, and other makers and thinkers. Each collaboration prioritizes experimentation, resulting in a wide variety of presentations—from operas and light-and-sound installations to films and exhibitions.
About Weekender 2: swellS & Make It Fit
swellS
swellS is a new audiovisual collaboration between band Spill Gold (Rosa Ronsdorf and Nina de Jong) and Studio Noralie (Noortje van den Eijnde), that will premiere at Nest in Laak during this edition of AM.PM.AM. Blurring the lines between sculpture, textiles, and performance, the piece recalls the ripple effect – a metaphor for ecological entanglement and the interconnectedness of all living beings. swellS will take shape as both a 50-minute live show on Friday evening and a standalone installation that is on view only during this weekend at Nest.
Make It Fit
Make It Fit—A Life Script will take place on Sunday evening and is a one-hour multidisciplinary performance by Tingyi Jiang that explores how language constructs authority, identity, and social norms by anatomizing the internalized societal script of ‘Make It Fit’. Set within a constructed situation, it blends public address, personal narrative, sonic composition, and improvised interaction, where language becomes a live negotiation between self, structure, and collective imagination. The project transforms “fitting” into a performative strategy, challenging conformity while proposing a sustainable, adaptive model for critical artistic practice.
Make It Fit — A Life Script emerged from an urgent need to process and respond to the forces of authoritative language that has shaped Tingyi Jiang's experience both personally and socially. Growing up in China, she was immersed in a cultural environment shaped by the maxim "make it fit." This phrase, rooted in Confucian values and extending to political ideologies, parental expectations and social norms. The idea of “fitting” wasn’t merely a set of abstract rules, but a deeply internalized choreography that governed my behavior, voice and identity.
In the context of an ever-evolving social and political landscape, Jiang's artistic practice is in constant negotiation with the world around it. The increasing demands for conformity in both personal and public life, amplified by digital media, economic pressures, and political shifts—demand not only new modes of expression, but new ways of inhabiting the role of the artist in public life.
