A sea of pink pussy hats and protest signs. Worldwide, people are protesting in reaction to the inauguration of President Donald Trump: the Women’s March.

During this program we will look at the activist as creative maker and address the importance of representation, the capturing and archiving of protest. We will engage in conversation with a few makers, reflecting on their work and how they relate to the contemporary political climate. How can we organise ourselves in a meaningful, inclusive and effective way to enact resistance?

The program is a collaboration between Amsterdam Museum, Framer Framed and Atria. The event takes place in the framework of ‘Meer Dan Muze’, an initiative to highlight female creators on this specific day.

Time and location: 20:00-22:00 at Atria (library), Vijzelstraat 20, Amsterdam

The event is full, the registration is closed!

Speakers

Gluklya
Gluklya (Natalya Pershina-Yakimanskaya) is an artist who lives and works in St Petersburg, Russia and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She is a pioneer of Russian performance, member and co-founder of the Factory of Found Clothes and Chto Delat. In her projects, Gluklya uses conceptualized clothes as a tool to build a connection between art and everyday life. Her oeuvre speaks of indignation and hope. She makes us attentive of injustice and she proposes playful ways through which people can resist injustice. Her work points to hidden tactics that people might invent, with the help of the artist, to empower themselves and navigate through structures of repression.

vreer verkerke
How do demonstrations find their way in history..? vreer verkerke is initiator and namegiver of Queer Collective De Noodles, founded in 2001. On the 31st of March, vreer will transfer some objects from the collective to the Amsterdam Museum, like the Trans Pride flag which has gone along with many demonstrations. vreer is also currently active in outsourcing the archive of De Noodles to the IHLIA. vreer themselves has not walked along with the Women’s March, but does have an opinion about it.

Tashina Blom
Tashina Blom is doing the research master Cultural Analysis at the UvA and was active during the Maagdenhuis Occupation in 2015. She was research assistant at UvA’s Commitee of Diversity and worked for the National Students Trade Union. In collaboration with the City Archive, she is currently working on an archive about the Maagdenhuis Occupation. One of the goals of this project is to develop a toolkit with which activists, like the ones involved with the Women’s March, could easily archive their own social media.

Clarice Gargard
Clarice Gargard is a journalist, presenter and publicist. She is well known as presenter for AT5, and currently works for Joop (BNNVARA) and publishes at, amongst others, de Correspondent, Vice and NRC Next about (American) politics, emancipation and identity politics regarding ethnicity, gender and sexual identity. Clarice often appears in talkshows such as DWDD, Pauw and RTL Late Night as an expert.

Imara Limon
Imara Limon is curator & public programmer at the Amsterdam Museum, where she curated the exhibition ‘Black Amsterdam’ in 2016. Museums and heritage institutions have been struggling with the question of representation for decades: which stories are told, and by whom? Her way of decolonising collections and narratives is by infiltrating in the institution, as activist, and collaboratively initiate these processes. Limon is also a mediator, advisor and critic in the field of visual arts.

Moderator:

Seada Nourhussen
Seada Nourhussen is Africa-editor and columnist at Trouw and commentator at Buitenhof. In 2011 her book ‘Bloedmobieltjes, Coltan in Congo’ was published. She wrote essays for scientific journals, NRC and the books “Dit boek gaat niet over mode’, ‘WTF! Volwassen worden na elf september’ and ‘Weg uit Babylon’. Nourhussen is often speaker or interviewer at debates and meetings.

Photo by Maansi Jain

Program Meer dan Muze (in Dutch)