Antony Mutshipule, 'Funga Rintsho', mixed media. Photo Credit: Antony Mutshipule 29 Apr 2024
18:00 - 20:00
Counter-extractivism: Poetics of remedy and transmission
We invite you on 29 April 2024 to Framer Framed to mark the closing of the Planetary Poetics master’s programme of the Sandberg Institute with guest tutor and cultural practitioner Jean-Sylvain Tshilumba Mukendi’s, artistic coordinator at art and research centre Atelier Picha (DRC). This closing event will feature a performance by Congolese artist Sarah Ndele, an open discussion with guests and artistic renderings of their collective and reflexive journey.
If the Democratic Republic of Congo is an invention, how can it be free? The country provides a large array of key mineral resources to the world for the ‘technological progress’ or energy transition of the current postmodern era. Its condition and fate are therefore inextricably linked to global politics.
The Planetary Poetics programme, in partnership with Atelier Picha, has probed the lasting and extended extraction zone of cultural and techno-political relations that keep the country in dire circumstances. During the course of this seminar, Atelier Picha’s coordinator Jean-Sylvain Tshilumba Mukendi invited students to collectively and artistically come up with a critical, engaged and holistic frame of action that takes into account the interrelated and planetary relevance of the matter, from extraction to waste (management).
Gather with us for a moment of restitution, exchange and transmission in solidarity with the millions of displaced, diggers and war victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Location
Framer Framed
Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71
1093 KS, Amsterdam
Planetary Poetics is a master’s programme at the Sandberg Institute that enables participants to develop artistic research exploring key concepts of the ecological crisis, including questions of climate justice, land restitution and reparations, reproductive justice, and constellations of co-resistance. Planetary Poetics is and initiative of Dorine van Meel and Framer Framed.
Framer Framed is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Amsterdam Fund for the Arts; Municipality of Amsterdam; and VriendenLoterij Fonds.
Planetary Poetics / Ecology / Education / Extractivism / Colonial history / Performance /
Exhibitions
Exhibition: The One-Straw Revolution
An exhibition curated by iLiana Fokianaki exploring permaculture as a methodology for exhibition-making
Agenda
Workshop: Maintaining the Root
Three workshops and a performance on heritage by artist Sarah Ndele as part of the Planetary Poetics master's programme at the Sandberg Insitute
Performance: Moddertong
A performance by artist Sebastién Hendrickx about the climate crisis
Planetary Poetics: Ancestral Assemblage
A gathering by artist Ismal Muntaha and Planetary Poetics
A Harvest for All: Notes on Biodiversity and Medicine
A conversation between Milena Bonilla & Taita Hernando Chindoy
Network
Jean-Sylvain Tshilumba Mukendi
Cultural practitioner, researcher and writer
