Image: The permanent name label by the entrance to A Tale of A Tub, tracing the artists who have been temporary occupants of the space since the residency program began in 2025.
Donderdag, 9 april, 2026
19.00 – 20.30
Conscious Uncoupling: A talk with Lili-Huston Herterich and Isabelle Sully, moderated by relationship therapist Rebeka Pázmányová
Following on from her research A System of Radical Dependency—for which she considers the art institution as a space where dependent personal and professional relationships happen—Lili Huston-Herterich proposed to end her artist residency at A Tale of A Tub with a series of therapy sessions. During these sessions, which have taken place throughout the months following the end of the residency in November 2025, Huston-Herterich and A Tale of A Tub’s artistic director Isabelle Sully reflected on the relationship between hosting institution and artist resident, attempted to address any tensions, power dynamics and insecurities resulting from this relation, and thought about how to incorporate aftercare into institutional relationships in a practical way going forward.
On Thursday, April 9, Huston-Herterich and Sully will be joined by their psychologist Rebeka Pázmányová for a public moment to close out their time together, share some insights from the sessions and rethink the residency program more broadly speaking. The event will also double as the launch for the accompanying quarterly bulletin arising from Huston-Herterich’s time at A Tale of A Tub, written by artist Amy Ching-Yan Lam.
Biografieën
AMY CHING-YAN LAM is an artist and writer. She works between ➀ what capitalism requires of life and ➁ what it feels like to be alive.
LILI HUSTON-HERTERICH is a white American-Canadian artist based in Rotterdam. As an artist, she is concerned with how her work emerges in relation to space, histories and other people, and how to maintain an awareness and acknowledgement of these relations. Huston-Herterich was the first artist-in-resident at A Tale of A Tub in 2025.
REBEKA PÁZMÁNYOVÁ is a psychologist working with both individuals and couples through out of her Leiden-based practice ResPair.