Re: <nettime> International anti slavery BLM

[d.garcia@new-tactical-research.co.uk]

Hi

I think that some attention needs to be paid to some institutional
changes that occurred in the Netherlands (I don't live there anymore
so some of this maybe behind the curve).

Out of the anti-modern art blood bath of recent years in NL that
was concurrent with the populist ascendancy. This saw the defunding
of historically important contemporary art provision such as De Appel
and Montevideo/Time Based Arts and many others.

Into the vacuum of public provision a number of new project spaces
arose.. one of a number is Framer Framed https://framerframed.nl/en/

that began as a research project founded on critical museology with
a specific post-colonial narrative and a program of exhibitions that
runs counter to the protocols of legitimisation and other forms of
social filters that constitute the international art scene.

Framer Framed for one has received structural funding that would have
been unthinkable in an earlier age.. so just maybe paradoxically 
something
progressive emerged out of the institutional decimation.

But I am sure others on the list who live in NL might have more up
to date detail

Best David Garcia

On 2021-05-20 03:51, Molly Hankwitz wrote:
> hi
> I am frequently cranky about US and Europe and have Europe envy but
> that might be nostalgic, but today I find this article below on this
> big show opening in the Netherlands about artifacts stolen from
> colonial people and the whole thing about giving them back...and I’m
> following this story with great interest. I had read about the Dutch
> govt giving back stuff they’d pillaged. Just as assists are becoming
> so invisible, right?
>
>
> I teach in Art History and the post-colonial discourse has only just
> begun to heat up after last summer and the civil rights movement.
> Kathy High had sent me a document called Decentering Whiteness and
> I’ve shared it to my colleagues. Its’s focused upon design. But,
> wondering what other strategies are being used in your worlds to
> counteract Western imperialist history?
>
> Maybe there are more bridges between our continents...all this
> scholarship about the slave trade links us undisputedly, and now to
> think that BLM would be influential Holland. I’m sorry if that is no
> longer the name. I have often been jealous that European countries are
> able to change their names.
>
> Molly
>
> https://apnews.com/article/europe-race-and-ethnicity-slavery-global-trade-health-bc419a8e4b3c5abed828378ced37fca8
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