Current
20–21 Mar 2025, Regenerate!, Jan van Eyck, Maastricht (link)()
Upcoming
8 May 2025-2027 UNFINISHED PASTS, Return, keep, or…?, Wereldmuseum Amsterdam
Pressing matter, Ownership, Value and the Question of Colonial Heritage in Museums (link)
Live Radio Broadcast from the objects at the freezer in depot.
Using vowels as a freed sound, the project attempts to blend the boundaries of human and non-human bodies.
Holding Poison is performance, choreographed by ninety five Microbes in the colonial museum.
Experimental and structuralist films are often intended to be anti-narrative, until a look in the archives reveals a complex of “characters” and “scenes”, each with their own lay of the land.
The filmic collage shows an X-ray image of a body, that seems to be inhabited by moving organisms, while a voice over intermittently speaks in Indonesian, Korean and fragments of a poem in several languages flicker across the screen.
When we are written into the water.
Investigates the temporal anomalies and reappropriation of fictionalities in institutional archives.
Digital technologies combine with human hair to circumnavigate the transhistorical temporality of an object by activating new inscriptions to its body, as well as our own, through reciprocal heuristic involvement.
Intersecting the time and geopolitical fictional narratives through reconstructing 1930s photos and animals in Korea that were collected during a trip of Swedish zoologist Sten Bergman before Korea was not divided yet.
Can forms and ideas from the global South, contained within the Tropical objects of European museums, lead us to future adaptations for our new climate conditions?
Ten Export Winter Landscapes are taken out from the dark museum archive and a conversation is shaped between two historical contexts, collaging them into one heterogeneous scene.
A project researching the transformation of contemporary objects that were forced to change through the paradigm of 20th century modernisation.
A performance about De Appel’s unintended collection; consisting of a group of artworks and other objects that have been coincidentally assembled in the archive throughout the institution’s history.
A journey through a diaspora of images and people in search of North Korea, one of the world’s most inaccessible and unknown places.
Using the performativity of ghosts as a medium to explore their links to colonial modernity, archiving, folk culture and the collective imagination.
Research concerning different methodologies of contemporary mediation in three different museums by exploring the relationship between artefacts inside the depots and their outside realities.
Using the performativity of repatriation and remaking, archival and field research from Indonesia and the Netherlands are brought together to investigate the notion of “return” as a pattern for remedying colonial objects.
A project connecting the objects in the archive of the Zuiderzeemuseum with the region’s geographically transformative history of dike-building and its contemporary location.
