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Thematic programme
Shame!
Tentoonstelling, publicatie en evenementen
23 oktober 2020 t/m 1 march 2021
Shame! Exploring Masculinities onderzoekt de representatie van mannelijke schaamte, naaktheid, geweld, verkrachting, fascisme en viriliteit, e.a.
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BOOK
Shame! And masculinity
Edited by Ernst van Alphen
Published by Valiz in collaboration with Herengracht 401
Official launch on 22 October 2020
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Mannelijkheid. Kwetsbaarheid.
Nu online: videoregistratie van
Maaike Meijer en Glenn Helberg in gesprek
"Mannelijkheid wordt nog steeds eerder geassocieerd met onkwetsbaarheid, kracht, besluitvaardigheid, controle en macht. Dat is een probleem."
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Heritage Contact Zone
Toolkit
Heritage Contact Zone (HCZ) is a EU project that investigates the potential of marginalised or contested heritage as a contact zone. The project has realised exhibitions and workshops across Europe and brought experiences together in a toolkit.
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South African perspective
25 February, 17 hrs
Ena Jansen in conversation with Philip Miller
Miller’s soundscape ‘Special Boy’ is a personal and moving piece addressing shame as a collision between childhood experiences and adult perspectives.
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PERPLEX!
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A travel magazine for those who are uncertain.
Perplex! is inspired by dialogues that began at Herengracht 401 and have extended into a method for opening up spaces and conversations - to be vulnerable even when it may feel impossible.
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Visit
The House of Gisèle
The House is a living archive. Guided tours through its historic interiors explore a maze of rooms, corridors, stairways and surprising spaces with their stories. Make an appointment for a group visit of approximately 1 hour.
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EU Project
SPEME
Spaces of Memory in Europe, Argentina, Colombia (SPEME) is a EU-funded (Horizon2020) programme of exchanges between academics working on memory, trauma and heritage and practitioners working at sites of memory in Italy, The Netherlands, Argentina and Colombia.
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Biografie Gisèle
Zeven jaar geleden benaderden wij Annet Mooij met het verzoek het leven van Gisèle te onderzoeken en te beschrijven. De biografie over Gisèle is een belangrijke bouwsteen in ons streven om het verleden van deze stichting verder te laten onderzoeken en open te stellen.
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Publications
A selection of thematic magazines and publications that feature the highlights of our thematic year programmes and projects. Download them here or get a hard copy at Herengracht 401.
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Documentary Film Herengracht 401
Een documentaire film van Janina Pigaht (2016)
Filmmaker Janina Pigaht wil het verhaal van het huis vastleggen nu er ook nog mensen kunnen vertellen over de eerste decennia vlak na de oorlog. Maar valt er wel een eenduidig verhaal te vertellen?
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The Warp and Weft of Memory
In this long term artistic research project Renée Turner explored the wardrobe of Gisèle in writing, photographs, videos, and illustrations. She reflects on the intimacy of the closet, a life-writing, history, the privileges of class, and the persona of the female artist.
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Ena Jansen Professor of literature in Johannesburg and at the VU and the UvA. She lives in Cape Town and has published on Elisabeth Eybers and the Anglo-Boer War. In Bijna Familie/Like Family (2016, Cossee Publishers and 2019, Wits University Press) she wrote in an accessible and profound way about culture and history on the basis of the key role of the housekeeper in the South African family. Ena Jansen wrote a number of articles about the work of Marlene Dumas. In the article ‘Spiegelschrift en Sneeuwwitje in anti-apartheid Netherlands’ (in Kunsten in Beweging, 2008), Ena Jansen discusses the work of Dumas and the South African poet Elisabeth Eybers.
Philip Miller is an international composer and sound artist based in Cape Town. His work is multi-faceted, often developing from collaborative projects in theatre, film, video and sound installations. One of Miller’s most significant collaborators is the internationally acclaimed artist William Kentridge. ‘REwind: A Cantata for Voice, Tape, and Testimony’ (2007) prefigures the questions of memory and performance that underlie Philip Miller’s exploration of testimony from South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). This piece includes the voices of victims, resistance fighters and government oppressors, taken from recordings made during the commission’s hearings. The result sutures together disparate elements to reflect the complexity of the South African truth-telling process.
Marlene Dumas is considered one of the most significant and influential painters of today. With the curator, Marlene Dumas selected a number of drawings for the exhibition SHAME! And Masculinity at H40 that have never been on show before. For the eponymous book SHAME! And Masculinity [Valiz Amsterdam] Marlene Dumas wrote the text: Painting a naked man Voyeurism Private Parts. With her work, she gives new content to the meaning that painting can still have today, in an era dominated by visual culture. Her intense, emotionally charged paintings and drawings address existentialist themes and often reference art historical motifs and current political issues. Her works have an enormous directness and expressiveness](https://h401.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)