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Framer Framed

Installation photo Mary Sibande - Conversations with Madam CJ Walker (2009), photo (c) Eva Broekema, Framer Framed

11 okt 2016 – 20:00

Performance: My Tongue Softens On The Other Name

Datum 11 oktober 2016 Tijd 20:00 ~ 22:00 uur Entree Gratis Meld je aan Locatie Framer Framed in de Tolhuistuin IJpromenade 2 1031 KT, Amsterdam-Noord Route
 Framer Framed in de Tolhuistuin is van Amsterdam Centraal Station bereikbaar met het pontje ‘Buiksloterweg’. De entree van het gebouw ligt direct aan het fietspad langs het IJ. De expositieruimte is bereikbaar via restaurant THT.


Open and interactive performance where artists, cultural performers and thinkers reflect on the exhibition Re(as)sisting Narratives (2016) through taking inspiration from a poem by Gabeba Baderoon. My Tongue Softens on the Other Name plays with themes of desire, intimacy and healing.

Guests Patricia Kaersenhout, Simone Zeefuik, Barby Asante and Happy Kinyili will bring an intervention, performance or reading to the space. My Tongue Softens On The Other Name invites to rethink how we make sense of space and time within the exhibition space. Through the use of words, art, ritual and performance, new narratives and fragments of past and present are woven into future perspectives.

This event is curated by Chandra Frank and hosted by Framer Framed.

On the speakers:
Simone Zeefuik is an Amsterdam based writer and organizer whose work focuses on imagery, representation, anti-Black racism, (digital) archives and the undocumented members of the Black communities in the Netherlands. She’s the co-initiator of #DecolonizeTheMuseum and #UndocumentedNL, the initiator of #UndocumentedEU plus the founder of literary platform RE:Definition.

Patricia Kaersenhout is a Dutch visual artist, cultural activist and womanist of Surinamese heritage. She studied Social Studies at the Amstelhorn Amsterdam and Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Her work investigates the fact of invisibility as a condition of the African Diaspora. It also looks at colonialism in relation to her upbringing in Western European culture.

Barby Asante is a London based artist, curator and educator whose work explores space, place and identity. The drive of her work is to create spaces for dialogue, collective thinking, ritual and reenactment. Using archival material in the broadest sense, she is interested in breaking down the language of archive, not to insert or present alternatives to dominant narratives but to interrupt, interrogate and explore the effects and possibilities of the unheard and the missing.

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Poem Gabeba Baderoon
MY TONGUE SOFTENS ON THE OTHER NAME
In my mother’s backyard washing snaps
above chillies and wild rosemary.
Kapokbos, cottonwool bush, my tongue softens
on the rosemary’s other name.
Brinjal, red peppers and paw-paw grow
in the narrow channel between
the kitchen and the wall that divides
our house from the Severos.  At the edge
of the grass by the bedrooms, a witolyf reaches
ecstatically for the power lines.In a corner in the lee of the house,
nothing grows.
Sound falls here.
Early in the day shadows wash
over old tiles stacked
against the cement wall.
In the cold and silence
my brother is making a garden.He clears gravel from the soil
and lays it against the back wall.
Bright spokes of pincushion proteas puncture a rockery.
For hours he scrapes into a large stone a hollow to catch
water from a tap that has dripped all my life.
Around it, botterblom slowly reddens the grey sand.
A fence made of reed filters
the wind between the wall and the house.
Ice-daisies dip their tufted heads
toward its shadows.At night, on an upturned paint tin, he sits
in the presence of growing things.
Light wells over the rim of the stone basin
and collects itself into the moon.
Everything is finding its place.


Feminisme / Performance /

Exposities


Expositie: Re(as)sisting Narratives

Over de gedeelde koloniale geschiedenis tussen Zuid-Afrika en Nederland. Curator: Chandra Frank

Netwerk


Simone Zeefuik

Schrijver en cultureel programmeur

Barby Asante

Kunstenaar, curator

Chandra Frank

Curator, onderzoeker en schrijver

Patricia Kaersenhout

Beeldend kunstenaar, cultureel activist, womanist