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The living archive

Magazine


Shared Heritage / The living archive / Colonial history / Museology /

Pressing Matter: Ownership, Value and the Question of Colonial Heritage in Museums
Photography / The living archive /

Cédric Kouamé celebrates the beauty of damage
The living archive / Queer /

Review: House of Wisdom and its unpalatable foreigners - by Cüneyt Çakırlar
The living archive /

Publication: Lost and Living (in) Archives
Oral History / Caribbean / The living archive / Migration /

Report: Exploring oral history as autobiography in the Curaçaoan context
The living archive / Feminism / Queer /

Report: How to create, and archive resistance?
The living archive / Middle East / New media / Politics and technology /

Report: Public Debate 'Vox Populi and The Syrian Archive'
Simuda Nyuma – Forward Ever Backward Never. Foto: Lara Tompa
The living archive /

Recensie: Een nieuwe kijk op je eigen historie. Een bespreking van de tentoonstelling 'Simuda Nyuma'
Colonial history / The living archive / Contested Heritage / South Africa /

Re(as)sisting Narratives: Exploring The Past To Write The Future
The living archive / Collection development / Colonial history /

Artists in Residence: Royal Museum for Central Africa
The living archive / Colonial history /

Exhibition: Archives I Presume?
Feminism / Collection development / The living archive /

Publication: Traveling Heritages

Exhibitions


Exhibition: Taking Stock

by Mariam Elnozahy, Wouter Osterholt, Elke Uitentuis

Exhibition: Diasporic Self - Black Togetherness as Lingua Franca

A project initiated by Amal Alhaag and Barby Asante

Exhibition: UnAuthorised Medium

A group show curated by Annie Jael Kwan

Exhibition: A Blueprint for Toads and Snakes

A solo exhibition by Sammy Baloji

Exhibition: House of Wisdom

Curated by Collective Çukurcuma (Naz Cuguoğlu and Mine Kaplangı)

Exhibition: Iran’s Women’s Movement - On the Archive of Sadiqe Dowlatabadi

An exhibition on the emergence of the women’s movement in Iran, at the beginning of the 20th century. Curated by Azadeh Fatehrad

Agenda


Hybrid Presentation: Declaring Distance
Ways of imagining and engaging with the colonial archive with Atelier KITLV
Amsterdam Assembly: Letting Go of Having to Speak All the Time
A gathering and thinking space for activists, artists, scholars, and other cultural practitioners
Opening: Taking Stock
Exhibition Opening with artist Elke Uitentuis
Exhibition: Taking Stock
by Mariam Elnozahy, Wouter Osterholt, Elke Uitentuis
Launch: Now water can flow or it can crash, my friend
A public program exploring art, archive and activism in East Asia and beyond
Plotting Data: Acts of Collection and Omission
Panel discussion and publication launch on datasets and artistic ways of interfacing them
Exhibition: Diasporic Self - Black Togetherness as Lingua Franca
A project initiated by Amal Alhaag and Barby Asante
Finissage weekend UnAuthorised Medium: Intense Visitations
Performances and presentations in the closing weekend of exhibition UnAuthorised Medium.
Museumnacht Amsterdam 2018
An interactive programme filled with performances by Poetry Circle Nowhere, dance by Don't Hit Mama, body art, tours and more! Centred around exhibition UnAuthorised Medium.
Exhibition: UnAuthorised Medium
A group show curated by Annie Jael Kwan
Opening: exhibition UnAuthorised Medium
With curator Annie Jael Kwan and participating artists Noel Ed De Leon, Sau Bin Yap, Erika Tan, and Sung Tieu.
Finissage: A Blueprint for Toads and Snakes
With Sammy Baloji, Georges Senga Assani and Heleen Debeuckelaere.
Curator tour: A Blueprint for Toads and Snakes
A tour by Vincent van Velsen.
Exhibition: A Blueprint for Toads and Snakes
A solo exhibition by Sammy Baloji
Finissage: Collectively (Re)shaping the Archive
Finissage of exhibition House of Wisdom, in collaboration with Casco and 7 Hills Foundation.
Exhibition: House of Wisdom
Curated by Collective Çukurcuma (Naz Cuguoğlu and Mine Kaplangı)
Exhibition opening: House of Wisdom
With an opening performance by Istanbul Queer Art Collective.
Lecture: Sara Blokland - Srefidensi and the reproduction of a family history
Lecture by Sara Blokland, about her art and the the project SrefidensiFoto, photo archives and the role of memory and identity in her work.
Imagining and capturing resistance
A discussion on creating and archiving images of resistance, at Atria.
Symposium: Vox Populi and The Syrian Archive
Public debate on the relationship between digital archiving practices and activism.
Feminist art practice today: pushing the boundaries
Dialogue on what feminist art practice means today; with Iris Kensmil, Chandra Frank, Elizabeth Kleinveld and Milo van der Maaden.
The Story Might Not Be Complete
A discussion on erasure and the archive.
Feminist Memory: Digging the Black Archives
On the representation and presence of black women in institutional and unconventional archives
Exhibition: Iran’s Women’s Movement - On the Archive of Sadiqe Dowlatabadi
An exhibition on the emergence of the women’s movement in Iran, at the beginning of the 20th century. Curated by Azadeh Fatehrad
De-toothing Africa - An evening with an intimate reading of a family archive
A cinematic installation that is fueled by film abstracts, family archives, readings, music, performance and soundscapes.
Perspectives
Public encounters in the context of the exhibition Embodied Spaces.
The Archive: unveiling the present
An evening about the notion of the archive in political issues
Oral History and the audiovisual archive
Oral history as a complementary to the archive of written historical sources.