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SHISHANI & SISTERHOOD
STORYTELLING CONCERT SHISHANI & SISTERHOOD I 25 April 2021, Erasmushuis, Jakarta
Stay tuned for SHISHANI & SISTERHOOD, Sunday 25 April Livestream Erasmushuis Jakarta. A collaboration between Shishani, Erasmushuis, & Beyond Walls. With great thanks to Tropenmuseum for facilitating the production.
For SHISHANI & SISTERHOOD Singer-songwriter/conceptualist Shishani Vranckx dives into the various stories and art forms in Indonesia, the Moluccas and Papua and creates a personal interpretation of the works that inspires her with the help of her team of artists.
Shishani brings together a diverse line-up of multi-disciplinary performers centralizing female artists. With: spoken word artist Tieka Masfar, tifa Tiga Batang Rumah, musician Wulan Dumatubun, dancer Asih Sungkono, batik expert Sabine Bolk and bass player Jaimie van Hek.
On 25 April Erasmushuis Jakarta will launch this Storytelling concertfilm with a Talk curated by Beyond Walls. Stay tuned for SHISHANI & SISTERHOOD.
BETA DISINI
BETA DISINI - IK BEN HIER - I AM HERE Livestream March 21, 12.00-13.30 (CET) 21.00-22.30 (MALUKU) @Museum Maluku.
Museum Maluku and Beyond Walls joined forces to create a Live program on March 21, around 70 years of Moluccan people living in The Netherlands. Hosted by Rocky Hehakaija and Jeftha Pattikawa. We created BETA DISINI in collaboration with Moluccan communities in NL: Vaassen, Vught, Ommen, Tiel, Ridderkerk and Rotterdam and Ambon, Maluku & beyond to show the world: BETADISINI.
Beyond Walls developed the program concept, curated and produced the program, which included 8 program locations and 6 Livelocations throughout The Netherlands and Ambon, Maluku. Parts of the visuals produced by Beyond Walls were broadcasted by NOS.
EXPERTMEETING MONDRIAAN FUND - BEYOND THE COLLECTION
EXPERT MEETING I BEYOND THE COLLECTION
February 11, 2021 I Mondriaan Fonds, Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed
We are happy to share that Mondriaan Fonds invited Beyond Walls for a break-out session on colonial heritage during the expert meeting ‘HERE: Heritage Reflections’ on 11.02. Organized by Mondriaan Fonds and Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed.In our session, we will explore colonial heritage beyond institutional and academic frameworks. We invite participants to reflect on accessibility, ownership, diaspora perspectives, the role of emotions related to colonial heritage, and more. How can colonial heritage contribute to more critical awareness when coloniality is deeply rooted in our institutions and society? We would love to discuss these topics and more with you! So join us in the conversation and register here. More details on our session will follow soon.
PUBLIC PROGRAM I REVOLUSI
On Sunday 13 December, Beyond Walls, Framer Framed and Read My World organize a public program around the recently published and already much discussed book REVOLUSI by David Van Reybrouck.
Wim Manuhutu will moderate a talk between David Van Reybrouck, Goenawan Mohamad & Sadiah Boonstra (both via zoom from Jakarta) and Amanda Pinatih. Our previous guest Jazzy Taihuttu could not attend due to health circumstances. With a multimedia performance Manual for the Displaced by Robin Block and Jeremy Flohr.
Date: December 13 2020
Time: 2pm. - 4pm.
Location: Facebook Livestream (link tbc)
The colonial past of the Netherlands and Indonesia is often presented as a chapter of national history. Stories about heroes, perpetrators and victims, embedded in a predominant national historiography about their own role, isolated from the rest of the world. In Revolusi, the Flemish author David Van Reybrouck puts an end to this: “the time is right to let go of that national focus and see the global dimension of the decolonization process.”
On this afternoon we will dive deeper into the motivation of the author and the results of his research with Van Reybrouck and guests. To what extent is Revolusi relevant for both Indonesia and the current postcolonial diaspora communities in the Netherlands? How does it contribute to a critical discourse about the role of the Netherlands in colonial world history? Why and for whom did he write this work? And how do fellow writers in Indonesia, (international) researchers, the post-colonial diaspora in the Netherlands react to the appearance of this work at a time when decolonization is high on the agenda everywhere?
David Van Reybrouck (1971, Bruges, Belgium) is a cultural historian, archaeologist and writer of non-fiction, theater and poetry. He achieved his greatest success with Congo. A history that was awarded the Libris History Prize 2010, the AKO Literature Prize 2010 and the Prix Médicis 2012. His essay Plea for Populism earned him the Jan Hanlo Essay Prize 2009 and the Flemish Culture Prize Criticism and Essay 2009. In 2014 he received the Gouden Ganzenveer and his pamphlet Against elections was awarded the Henriëtte Roland Holst Prize. This pamphlet was praised by Kofi Annan. He also wrote the theater monologue Para (2016) and A jihad of love, for which he was awarded the Flemish Community's Badge of Honor together with Mohamed El Bachiri in 2017. In the same year, the essay Peace can be learned (together with Thomas d'Ansembourg) was also published. Van Reybrouck's Boekenweekessay Zink was awarded Prix du livre européen. His work is published in more than twenty languages.
credits photo: Frank Ruiter
Goenawan Mohamad (1941, Batang, Java) is an Indonesian poet, editor and man of letters. Mohamad has been a crusader for press freedom in Indonesia since his university days. Working in a dictatorial system in which the press was controlled by threats, intimidations, and banning, Goenawan Mohamad was the most consistent and visible voice for freedom of the press in the country for two decades.
He is the founder and editor of Tempo (Time) magazine in Indonesia. Tempo was banned in 1994 by the Suharto’s New Order administration because of its vocal criticism of the authoritarian regime. Rather than leave the country Mohamad chose to stay and to continue to work to broaden freedom in Indonesia. He still published an Internet version of Tempo and he formed the Alliance of Independent Journalists to continue pushing for press freedom. In 1995 Mohamad initiated the Institute for the Study of Free Information Flow. Goenawan Mohamad is also one of the world’s leading voices of moderate Islam and contributors to the creating of the national language of Indonesia, Bahasa Indonesia. Mohamad has received various awards, such as the first Professor Teeuw Award of the University of Leiden in 2002 and in 2006 he received the Dan David Prize award. In 1999, Mohamad was named International Editor of the Year by World Press Review magazine. In 1998, he was one of four winners of the CPJ International Press Freedom Awards.
Dr Sadiah Boonstra is a Historian and Curator and is active in a broad cultural field. Sadiah combines her academic expertise with curating, producing and programming. Living and working in Jakarta, Sadiah is also an Asia Scholar at Melbourne University. She obtained her PhD in History from the VU University in Amsterdam in 2014. She is interested in the entanglement and legacy of colonial history, heritage, art and culture in contemporary Indonesia.
photo credits: Maarten Nauw / Framer Framed
PUBLIC PROGRAM I HERITAGE IN MOTION (DUTCH)
PUBLIC PROGRAM I Heritage in Motion
On October 31 Beyond Walls organizes the public program Heritage in Motion. With an introduction by Imara Limon, Richard Kofi in conversation with Amanda Pinatih, Yopi Abraham and Raki Ap and a multi sensory performance by Jeremy Flohr and Robin Block. Click to see the full program.
This program is curated by Beyond Walls, facilitated by OBA Amsterdam and is part of the Dutch History Month.
PODCAST I HERITAGE UNDER FIRE (DUTCH)
PODCAST I Heritage under fire
About controversial historical objects and how to deal with these objects in light of the present, the museum context and beyond. In this podcast we focus us on a controversial object: a Colt .32 pistol, the favorite weapon used by the Dutch captain Raymond Westerling during the Indonesian Revolution in the 40s. Does a weapon that refers to mass killings even belong in a museum and why? And if so, what story must be told and for whom is it intended?
This podcast is developed and produced by Beyond Walls in collaboration with Open University. Click for more info.