Events

Symposium
in collaboration with Humanity in Action Nederland

What is the characteristic of contemporary pop culture in 2019? Do artists with a large platform have to express themselves on social and societal issues? And if they don't, are they "canceled"? What role does social media activism play in this interaction? How does popular culture create a connection in order to counteract polarisation between groups in society? During this edition, culture experts will engage in a dialogue with the public about the interaction between popular culture and social and societal issues.

A lecture by Cristina Demaria

Monday 25 November 2019, 17.30 hrs

How can moving images represent a space of trauma and turn it into a space for remembrance?

In and out of the archive: working with grey zones
Round-table conversation, workshop, artist talk
In the framework of the SPEME project we invite you to participate in an afternoon programme about working with historic material as an artist, a historian and an institution.

A post-colonial family affair. 
Cabinet exhibition with archival pieces and a Virtual Reality installation

22 November - 4 December 2019
open Tuesday to Friday, 14-18 hrs

Lecture: 20 November 2019 - 19.00 hrs

Chris van der Heijden asks us a double question: how to foresee the consequences of your thoughts and acts? And: how to understand and to explain without knowing what you know?

Boals' saying "Peace no Passivity" has inspired many theatre-practitioners in the field of conflict, memory and transformational processes in many countries around the world.
In a three-hour workshop, we will focus on the dilemma's we are dealing with in our field and their underlying actors. By bringing these actors into the open we can start to look for alternative ways of perceiving them and approaching them, which will help us to get a deeper understanding of how traumatic experiences, working through in the present, could be transformed.

Saadé’s installatie is gebaseerd en geïnspireerd op de 18e-eeuwse behangselschilderingen van Jurriaan Andriessen (1742-1819) in de Drakensteynkamer van het museum. De schilderingen zijn mediterrane scènes en bevinden zich rondom langs de vier wanden van de kamer. Aanvankelijk waren ze geschilderd voor kasteel Drakensteyn in Lage Vuursche.

Lesung von Wolfgang Schmidbauer 3. September, 19 Uhr

Schmidbauer ist Deutschlands wohl bekanntester Psychoanalytiker und Autor von mehreren Bestsellern mit Übersetzungen in zehn Sprachen.

At the very top of the organ case of the world-famous Vater-Müller organ, the Icelandic artist Smári Rúnar Róbertsson (Vestmannaeyjabær, 1992) winds back the hands of the clock. For two and a half months they will rewind some 300 years, beyond the time when the clock was created by sculptor Jurriaan Westerman: the year 1724. The artist literally relaxes the clock as a way of transforming it to reflect on time, space and your physical presence.