Join us for the firs t ART SCIENCE dialogue of Realms of Reality with artists Ma rcos Kueh and Ritvik Khushu and researchers Amisah Bakuri and Elsbeth Dekker. Miranda van Holland will be moderating. The conversation for ms part of a collaboration with 3D and will take place in t he gallery.
In the first dialogue of Realms of Reality we will delve into themes and t opics present in the presentation by Kueh and Khushu in the gallery. As such, the conversation will explore the int ricacies between religion and colonialism as well as its impact on pe rceptions of gender and sexuality, and the intertwining of status, cu ltural norms and economic determinism.
Marcos Kueh is an artist from Sarawak, Borneo Malaysia, currently livin g and working in the Netherlands. His practice centres on textiles as a medium for storytelling — drawing from Borneo’s ancestral weav ing traditions to explore themes of identity, labour, and globalisati on. Kueh holds a Bachelor’s in Graphic and Textile Design from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. His works are held in the collection s of Museum Voorlinden and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Recent exh ibitions include Manifesta 15 in Barcelona, Kunstinstituut Melly in R otterdam, The Backroom in Kuala Lumpur, and the National Art Gallery Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur.
Ritvik Khushu i s a Kashmiri artist-researcher based between the Netherlands and Indi a. Situated at the intersections of material culture, memory and hist ories of extraction, his practice explores the ways in which historie s and knowledges are carried, displaced and remembered through object s, materials and embodied practices. His work encounters objects, kno wledges and materials held within ethno-colonial museum and archival collections as sites of dispossession and memory. Through archival re search and fieldwork, he follows their histories across the instituti onal spaces in which they have been collected and the communities amo ng whom their memories, practices and meanings continue to live.His w ork focuses on issues of restitution beyond the return of cultural ob jects, attending to the histories, knowledges, and world-making pract ices disrupted through their extraction.
Amisah Bakuri<
/strong> assistant Professor at VU Amsterdam, at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities,
;Lived Religion and Society. Her interdisciplinary resea
rch explores the intersections of religion, culture, identity, and se
xuality. Her current work focuses on the historical legacies of missi
onary Christianity, colonialism, and slavery, and how they
shape the religious identities of descendants of enslaved and colonis
ed communities in the Netherlands. She is also the author of “
Religious Sensibilities in Pursuit of Sexual Well-Being: African
Diasporic Communities in the Netherlands“, which examines the
intersection of religion, sexuality, and well-being within African di
asporic communities in the Netherlands. Recently, she published “
Elsbeth Dekker is a PhD candidate in Legal Theory and Legal History at the Vri je Universiteit Amsterdam. She graduated in Law and Art History. Her research is embedded within the NWO-project ‘Pressing Matter: Owner ship, Value and the Question of Colonial Heritage in Museums’ and f ocuses on museum collections in relation to property structures and p ractices to redress historical injustices.
Miranda van Holland was trained as an art historian and anthropolog ist in Utrecht and Nijmegen. After a career in radio broadcasting and event hosting she returned to the academic world to study religion a nd media. She now works at the Vrije Universiteit where she runs the dialogue and debate centre called 3D. She coordinates the largest student community program at VU called Life is Better in 3D and is the team l ead for NEWConnective, a team of young program makers that offer prog ram and conversation on life’s bigger questions, grief, meditation and interreligious dialogue.
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DESCRIPTION: Join us for the first ART SCIENCE dialogue of Realms of Reality with artists Marcos Kueh and Ritvik Khushu and resea rchers Amisah Bakuri and Elsbeth Dekker. Miranda van Holland will be moderating. The conversation forms part of a collaboration with 3D and will take place in the gallery. In the first dialogue of Realms of Reality we will de lve into themes and topics present in the presentation by Kueh and Khushu in the gallery. As such, the conversation will explore the intricacies between religion and colonialism as wel l as its impact on perceptions of gender and sexuality, and the inter twining of status, cultural norms and economic determinism.Ma rcos Kueh is an artist from Sarawak, Borneo Malaysia, c urrently living and working in the Netherlands. His practice centres on textiles as a medium for storytelling — drawing from Borneo’s ancestral weaving traditions to explore themes of identity, labour, a nd globalisation. Kueh holds a Bachelor’s in Graphic and Textile De sign from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. His works are held in the collections of Museum Voorlinden and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterd am. Recent exhibitions include Manifesta 15 in Barcelona, Kunstinstit uut Melly in Rotterdam, The Backroom in Kuala Lumpur, and the Nationa l Art Gallery Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur.Ritvik Khushu is a Kashmiri artist-researcher based between the Netherlands a nd India. Situated at the intersections of material culture, memory a nd histories of extraction, his practice explores the ways in which h istories and knowledges are carried, displaced and remembered through objects, materials and embodied practices. His work encounters objec ts, knowledges and materials held within ethno-colonial museum and ar chival collections as sites of dispossession and memory. Through arch ival research and fieldwork, he follows their histories across the in stitutional spaces in which they have been collected and the communit ies among whom their memories, practices and meanings continue to liv e.His work focuses on issues of restitution beyond the return of cult ural objects, attending to the histories, knowledges, and world-makin g practices disrupted through their extraction.Amisah Bakuri< /strong> assistant Professor at VU Amsterdam, at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, ;Lived Religion and Society. Her interdisciplinary resea rch explores the intersections of religion, culture, identity, and se xuality. Her current work focuses on the historical legacies of missi onary Christianity, colonialism, and slavery, and how they shape the religious identities of descendants of enslaved and colonis ed communities in the Netherlands. She is also the author of “ Religious Sensibilities in Pursuit of Sexual Well-Being: African Diasporic Communities in the Netherlands“, which examines the intersection of religion, sexuality, and well-being within African di asporic communities in the Netherlands. Recently, she published “