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MOED Talks: Rosemarie Buikema
In deze videoreeks nodigt MOED gasten uit om te praten over hun visie op gelijkheid en verschil aan de hand van kunstwerken die zij inspirerend en krachtig vinden en die hen over tijd zijn bijgebleven. Hoe kunnen esthetiek, artistieke techniek en verbeeldingskracht worden aangewend voor de vormgeving van een structureel inclusieve samenleving? Hoe kunnen verbeelding, affect, emotie en ratio in hun samenhang bijdragen tot een beter begrip van gelijkheid,…
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Tino Sehgal: Art and Memory beyond Inanimate Materiality
IN CONVERSATION WITH NÚRIA ROCA What kind of artworks are commonly exhibited inside the walls of a museum? What does the inclusion -and, by extension, conservation- of a certain type of art tell us about institutional understandings of art and memory? What are the attitudes and behaviours generally expected by visitors engaging with art in the context of a museum? Driven by these questions, I will analyse the main characteristics…
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Can We Think of a World without Gender?
IN CONVERSATION WITH NIENKE DE HAAN (VIA STUDIUM GENERALE) The documentary Genderbende (2017, HALAL docs) opens up different ways of thinking about gender. How does gender influence our daily life? What does it mean to think beyond the box? “When I go to the bakery, I go to buy a bread, I don’t go to have a ‘gender-experience’ or anything like that,” says Selm, one of the main…
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Reclaiming the Exhibition: the Case of Insight Share
IN CONVERSATION WITH EUGENE VAN ERVEN Equalizing, liberating or decolonizing museums, to me, should be about participation, a notion that is not self-evident or always an inherently good thing. Anyone intent on decolonizing museums could benefit from critically exploring the complexities involved in participation. There is no need here to recapitulate the troubled histories of western public and private museums; Tony Bennett and other new museology scholars already started paving…
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Kunst en Ecologie: De Bij, de Natuurimkerij en de Menselijke Kunstenaar
IN GESPREK MET GIJSJE HEEMSKERK EN ROBBIE SCHWEIGER Momenteel is er een mondiale bijensterfte gaande. Curator Robbie Schweiger, beeldend kunstenaar Suzie van Staaveren en stichting WellBeeing werken aan een transdisciplinair project, waarbij het welzijn van de wilde bij bovenaan de agenda staat. Een samenwerking vanuit verschillende perspectieven Gijsje Heemskerk (GH): Hoe is de samenwerking tussen jullie en stichting WellBeeing ontstaan? Robbie Schweiger (RS): Suzie ging voor de tentoonstelling ‘het compromis’… -
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Reflecting on a World Dominated by Adults: Making Art With Youngsters
IN CONVERSATION WITH MEREL ZWARTS Departing from MOED’s online exhibition Onion/Union: Crafting Teenage Identities, a collaboration between MOED and artist, art educator, and researcher Merel Zwarts, we invited Merel to discuss her work with us. This resulted in an interesting exchange in which she reflects on her own work, the political, and social dimensions of it and the way she amplifies children’s voices in a world that is dominated by…
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Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I A Woman?” revisited
A CONVERSATION BETWEEN GLORIA WEKKER, NANCY JOUWE, AND SOJOURNER TRUTH On the occasion of the exhibition MOED: What is Left Unseen in the Centraal Museum, Gloria Wekker performed Sojourner Truth’s notorious speech Ain’t I A Woman?, originally delivered at the Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio, on May 29, 1851. With Ain’t I A Woman?, Sojourner Truth voiced a critique to the middle-class white feminists who failed to take into account…
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Reading by Osmosis: Nature Interprets Man
IN GESPREK MET SEMÂ BEKIROVIĆ EN GIJSJE HEEMSKERK Voor het onderzoeksproject ‘Reading by Osmosis’ zal Bekirović niet langer de rol aannemen van kunstenaar, maar wordt ze curator. Ze gebruikt haar menselijke capaciteiten om niet-menselijk entiteiten een podium te bieden. Anders gezegd, de tentoonstelling die ze cureert bestaat uit werk gemaakt door enkel niet-menselijke kunstenaars en laat zien dat kunstenaars niet per se menselijk hoeven te zijn. In deze tentoonstelling poogt…
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Count Me In: Taking the Guerrilla Girls to Dutch Museums
IN CONVERSATION WITH PAULINE SALET The Guerrilla Girls have been featured in several Dutch museums before. In 2016, the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven organised a retrospective exhibition of the artist and activist group, showing their work from their start in 1985 until 2012. A few years later, in March 2018, the Guerrilla Girls visited the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam themselves, as they were invited by Mama Cash as part of…
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Politics of Representation: The Cases of Nola Hatterman and Jan Sluyters
IN CONVERSATION WITH ASTRID KERCHMAN UPDATE: This article has been updated in August 2020, following the latest research outcomes on the person portrayed in Nola Hatterman’s On the Terrace (1930). Ellen de Vries has demonstrated that the model in the painting is Louis Richard Drenthe, instead of Jimmy van der Lak, which was believed before. De Vries has analyzed letters of Hatterman, where Hatterman, stating the name of Lou Drenthe.…
