Quinsy Gario - Bart Groenendaal - Stefan Ruitenbeek

Friday, May 25, 2012

Time: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Location venue: De Nieuwe Liefde, Da Costakade 102, Amsterdam
Language: English

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The current cultural and political situation in the Netherlands is one that encourages the belief that its postcolonial history is a closed chapter before it has even been written. The reality is that the Netherlands is only now beginning to reflect critically on its colonial past. Art institutions and their strategies of classification, valorization, and display have, only half-heartedly been informed by postcolonial studies, if at all.

This symposium seeks answers to this challenging situation, presenting a range of institutional practices and scholarly insights to examine a specific aspect of these practices: the exhibition itself and the exhibition strategies that go alongside it.
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Thursday May 24, Starts at 7.30pm
Free entrance, reservations through: reserveren@framerframed.nl

The publications Changing Perspectives: Dealing with Globalisation in the Presentation and Collection of Contemporary Art and UNFIXED: Photography and Postcolonial Perspectives in Contemporary Art will be launched at Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam.

From different angles, both publications address issues of globalisation and diversity in contemporary art. Along with introducing each publication, the evening will explore these themes through a panel discussion with international guests and an artist performance from Otobong Nkanga.
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Friday 27 April, 7:30 – 9:30 pm
Free admission, lectures in English
Reservations can be made by sending an e-mail to mail@smba.nl


Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam and Alauda Publications cordially invite you for the launch of the publication Museutopia, A Photographic Research Project by Ilya Rabinovich.
During the evening the curator and art critic Viktor Misiano will give a lecture and the philosopher and cultural scholar Huub van Baar will introduce the book Museotopia. Following the two presentations, there will be a roundtable with the lecturers and the artist, moderated by curator Annie Fletcher.
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