24 Mar  
BOOTY
With: CPR (Charlotte Rooijackers), Arahmaiani Feisal, Aude Mgba, Lifepatch, Nur’Ain, Stephanie Welvaart

13:00–17:00 PM
Live-broadcast from Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam @studiumgenerale.rietveldacademie.nl
*Taking measures and regulations into account, no seats are available for this public program :(

 

Image credit: Lifepatch’s Spectacular Healing (2019), originally commissioned by Framer Framed for the exhibition On the Nature of Botanical Gardens
 
 
Booty – valuable stolen goods, especially those seized in war. 
Booty – someone's bottom.
 
Origin: Probably an alteration of 'body'
 
Booty, coercively expropriated goods, often in colonial and/or imperialist warfare, have il/legally shown up in y/our public museums and/as private collections of geopolitical artefacts for centuries. How are acts of recovery and reclamation organized and negotiated? 
 
This afternoon on booty offers a collective eco-poetic reading of the material conditionings and positionings of our museum bodies at (the) stake. Or to make use of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s vocabulary, we are faced with epistemic violence, or brainwashing in common tongue: how some knowledge systems are not considered knowledge production at all, and particular cultural heritage remain unacknowledged as neither cultivated nor inherited.
 
How to read this space? Let’s borrow an origin of reading, ‘lezen’ in Dutch tongue literally stems from its archaism ‘gathering’, or ‘collecting’ the ears of leftover grains after harvesting as ‘arenlezen/arrenlezen’, gleaning. How can we collect and gather within such constructed margins of the productive field/s of cultivation? What to make of this intersectional feminized bottom?
 
Together, the artists/activists and other reading speakers this afternoon, show and share hands, heads, faces, tongues, and spirit/s, towards a reconfiguration of a historical present.
The afternoon is g/hosted by CPR, a nom de plume in affinity with heart massage and toward agroecological* reclamations of feminized common-pool resources. They write on intoxication via the concept Pharmakon, which considers all materials and substances capable of healing, creating, poisoning, and killing, depending on their dosage.

* agroecology is the not-scientific variant of agriculture, incorporating traditional and extensive cultivation of plants, lands, and not-necessarily-human people/s.

Charlotte Rooijackers has worked as an arts writer for the SGRA program since 2013. S/he shows up with and without work at various institutions for art and agriculture, such as: Dutch Art Institute, Ypard (Young Professionals for Agricultural Research and Development), Jan van Eyck Academie, Casco Art Institute, RongWrong artspace, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Sonsbeek Biennale 20-24 (upcoming), and Centraal Museum Utrecht (upcoming), e.a.


Resilient Bodies
Strategies and Practices for Fluid Embodiments

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