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’…

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…

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…

IN CONVERSATION WITH TERRA CRITICA   The audio-clip is a recording of a Terra Critica ReadingRoom session, and part of a series (held in 2017) called un/learning: the p/re/distribution of knowledge. As you can hear, different voices overlap and respond to each other, none is exclusive or more important than the others. In tune with MOED’s objective, we practice an affirmative combination of equality-in-difference in each ReadingRoom meeting, hoping to…

IN CONVERSATION WITH GIJSJE HEEMSKERK AND WISKE Gijsje Heemskerk discusses the installation work that she made together with canine companion Wiske for the Artistic Research Graduation Show ‘‘50/50: I don’t like common ground as a title for anything”. Companion Species The sculptures depicted here are made in collaboration with my canine companion Wiske. Wiske is not a ‘pet’ or a ‘companion animal’. Wiske is, like myself, a companion species. A…

IN CONVERSATION WITH RACHEL GILLETT Black Panther – the Utrecht Experience. On February 14th, 2018, my partner surprised me with a Valentine’s day film date to see Black Panther, the Marvel film starring a black superhero, a black anti-hero, and a mostly black cast. [1] I was thrilled. I study race, popular culture, and representation, and I had been following the advance hype for the film obsessively. As a personal…

IN CONVERSATION WITH LEANA BOVEN The museum’s colonial foundation One could look at the museum as being an active entity, or an urban actor. The museum could be seen as agitator and the space it occupies as a place where political activism can develop. Museums can engage in acts of representation as intervention, and – at least in the Netherlands –  lectures and debates concerning societal issues are more and…

IN CONVERSATION WITH CHLOE DIVERS With the MOED team I visited Atria, the institute of Gender Equality and Women’s History and one of MOED’s partners. Because MOED aims to draw attention to the interrelatedness of different struggles for equality, I decided to delve into the archives of Atria to find out more. Art and cultural production are central to MOED, which is why I focused my research on a specific…