Heterotropics #2
Heterotropics#2
Resound, revision, recollection: Sensing through colonial archives
1st May – 10th June 2017, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam
For its second chapter, the research platform and event series Heterotropics in collaboration with the Research Center for Material Culture invited KUNCI to engage in a 6-week research residency at the Tropenmuseum. During their residency, various KUNCI members will research and publicly discuss the Dutch East Indies collection of the Tropenmuseum, considered both as an archival corpus and narrative device. Aiming to unleash alternative epistemologies and shifting confabulations,Heterotropics#2 will reflect on the aftertastes and afterlives of colonialism, archival language and the politics of memory taking the Tropenmuseum as a starting point.
A broadcasting series focusing on specific objects and findings selected from the archives of the Tropenmuseum will punctuate the unfolding of the residency. In the form of conversations and interviews, the series is a work-in-progress intended both as a communication and research tool.
The 6-week research residency will lead to the final symposium Tropical Dissonance: Decolonizing knowledge through ethnographic archives (6th June). Convening local and international speakers, the symposium will interrogate intersections between decolonial research, artistic practices and alternative knowledge production.
Both the symposium and the series will be broadcasted live as well as later uploaded as podcasts on RADIO KUNCI. Check out the following link for various references used in the course of the residency.
The project forms a part of a new long-term project by KUNCI entitled “School of Improper Education” in which the collective will engage with alternative modes of education and knowledge transmission. The radio will be used as a strategical way of disseminating knowledge across geo-political boundaries and also as a reference to the use of this medium during colonial times.
Program
→ 6-week research residency
→ Radio broadcasting series at RADIO KUNCI
→ June 6th: Final symposium
ABOUT HETEROTROPICS
Heterotropics is a long term research and curatorial project initiated by Amsterdam-based curator Sara Giannini and organized in collaboration with the art platform TAAK (LINK > www.taak.me). Unfolding through different chapters and collaborations, it investigates the immaterial and material remnants of colonial desire in the city of Amsterdam. Heterotropics is a fictitious concept arising from the linguistic intimacy between “trope” and “tropic.” In its different manifestations it relates language, space and collective imagery.
