ART SCIENCE dialogue with Marcos Kueh, Ritvik Khushu, Amisah Bakuri and Elsbeth Dekker | September 10, 4.15 PM
Join us for the first ART SCIENCE dialogue of Realms of Reality with artists Marcos Kueh and Ritvik Khushu and researchers 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.
The dialogue will delve 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 well as its impact on perceptions of gender and sexuality, and the intertwining of status, cultural norms and economic determinism.
Marcos Kueh is an artist from Sarawak, Borneo Malaysia, currently 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, and globalisation. Kueh holds a Bachelor’s in Graphic and Textile Design from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. His works are held in the collections of Museum Voorlinden and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Recent exhibitions include Manifesta 15 in Barcelona, Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam, The Backroom in Kuala Lumpur, and the National Art Gallery Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur.
Ritvik Khushu is a Kashmiri-origin artistic researcher and designer based between India and the Netherlands. His work is situated at the intersections of decolonial and post-colonial theory, design (as the edifice of modern aesthetics and materialism), and memory – that is material and immaterial, communal and ancestral. By employing storytelling as a tool of reclamation and reappropriation, his work seeks to reclaim, foreground and recover historically othered and injured knowledges, imaginaries, and worlding traditions.
Amisah Bakuri assistant Professor at VU Amsterdam, at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lived Religion and Society. Her interdisciplinary research explores the intersections of religion, culture, identity, and sexuality. Her current work focuses on the historical legacies of missionary Christianity, colonialism, and slavery, and how they shape the religious identities of descendants of enslaved and colonised 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 diasporic communities in the Netherlands. Recently, she published “Healing Beyond Borders: Well-being, Religion, and Migration in Postcolonial Netherlands.” .
Elsbeth Dekker is a PhD candidate in Legal Theory and Legal History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She graduated in Law and Art History. Her research is embedded within the NWO-project ‘Pressing Matter: Ownership, Value and the Question of Colonial Heritage in Museums’ and focuses on museum collections in relation to property structures and practices to redress historical injustices.
Programme
4.15 PM | Doors open & possibility to view exhibition
4.30 PM | ART SCIENCE dialogue with speakers and audience
5.30 PM | Closing
Admission is free