Issue 6: Before the Storm door MOHA

With great excitement, the new guest curators of SHEBANG, artist collective MOHA, present their project Before the Storm. SHEBANG Issue 6: Before the Storm is an interactive installation and temporary shelter created within the framework of SHEBANG. It is not just a shelter but a collectively shaped, self-organized space beyond the socio-cultural structures that confine us. It embraces the ungraspable, unpredictable, invisible, unpolished, intangible, non-functional, unproductive, and the in-between spaces of autonomy and care. This project challenges the idea that shelter must be institutional, functional, or imposed. Here, care is an act of defiance—a reclamation of space on our own terms.

Developed in collaboration with diverse local working groups consisting of people from different walks of life, backgrounds, and experiences, the installation takes shape in our temporary building in Amsterdam Zuidoost. Through shared conversations, food, sleepovers, dreams (both good and bad), hands-on building, carrying, lifting, running, doubting, and slowly building towards something. Participants can join at different stages—from the initial ideas to the final construction.

More than just an artwork, this project serves as a prototype for a much-needed societal space: a welcoming refuge for preparation, repair, shelter, and contemplation—both individually and collectively. Before the Storm will open to the public on Friday, June 13, with a special evening program, followed by two weeks of open access and a series of additional events.

Before the storm by MOHA: Alice Pons, Olivia Reschofsky, Wafa Alattas
together with Nasma Al-Shutfa and many more