​Eva Posas appointed head of Temporary Master's Programme with If I Can't Dance Sandberg

We are delighted to announce Eva Posas as the Department Head of the forthcoming Temporary Master’s Programme in Performance (beginning September 2026), a collaboration between Sandberg Instituut and If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution.

Eva Posas is a curator, writer, and editor, currently based in The Hague. Her work has evolved at the intersection of curatorial and editorial practices, the politics of language, the power of subtlety, identity, and intergenerational memory as a form of resistance and reflection.

The forthcoming two-year Temporary Programme at Sandberg Instituut will unfold within If I Can’t Dance’s current field of inquiry, Body as Memory, marking the institution’s X Edition and 20th anniversary. This edition examines how performance and its methodologies engage the ‘body as memory’ and challenge Western epistemologies that assume distance as a condition for knowledge.

Eva’s commitment and research into the persistence and resistance of disappeared (embodied) languages was deemed key in providing a guiding line for the Temporary Master’s Programme. As Eva describes in her own words:

“One of my primary research interests is language, I believe that language is ground; language is body. Language vibrates through bodies, as the threshold between verbal and nonverbal communication. That will be our entry point to embodied knowledge, corporeal encounters, and calling to actions beyond the written and spoken word. In constant and deep collaboration with If I Can’t Dance and Sandberg Instituut, I’m thrilled to lead a programme that encourages us to incarnate questions, to get vulnerable with other bodies, and to understand the political and symbolic power of being alive. Together, we will meet on our shared struggles, using performance as a space to speak what we can’t, what we don’t dare, and what is absent from a poetic, corporeal, and collective language. Through this, we can (re)produce a memory that activates the claim for justice and, despite all, our right to joy."

Eva will be developing the curriculum for the Temporary Masters in collaboration with If I Can’t Dance and Sandberg Instituut over the next months. The Temporary Programme will be presented during the Rietveld/Sandberg Open Day on January 30, 2026 and student applications to participate in the Temporary Programme will open from January–April 2026. For inquiries about the programme please contact: tp@sandberg.nl

We are all looking forward to the forthcoming journey together, welcome Eva!

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Eva Posas is the initiator of Xigagueta, a program of art, writing, and thought from Binnizá territory (in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico) and the author of Mbuchi: Turtle Words. On Forbidden Mother Tongues, published by PrintRoom in the Netherlands in 2024. Since 2024, she is curator of Resquicio at Casa del Lago, UNAM, Mexico City. She has a background in German Literary and Language studies; additionally, she conducts research and dissemination activities related to Binnizá culture.

Interested in collective learning processes, Posas was part of the team behind Materia Abierta from 2019 to 2024. Alongside Mônica Hoff, she co-curated the edition Ni apocalipsis ni paraíso in 2021. From 2020 to 2021, she was selected as a curator in residence at the Jan van Eyck Academie and as a fellow at the Nieuwe Instituut from 2022 to 2023. From 2012 to 2018, she served as editorial director and curator at Fundación Alumnos47, where she explored the role of publishing as social provocation, counter narratives, the intersection of public and private spaces, and editing as a subversive methodology. In 2019 and 2020, she shaped and curated Reading Material, a program within Material Art Fair. She has collaborated with various institutions in Mexico City, Guatemala, Bogotá, Sao Paolo, Gateshead, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Basel, Zurich, Berlin, Copenhagen, Venice, Los Angeles, and New York.

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Image ID: Eva Posas stands in a sunlit room wearing a white blouse with green embroidery. Her arms are crossed behind her back, and she smiles gently at the camera with red lipstick. Behind her, the wall is covered with handwritten notes, papers, and two black ribbons hanging from above.

Photo by Aàdesokan

Eva Posas: https://evaporable.org/
If I Can't Dance: https://ificantdance.org/