In spanning zit de overvolle zaal te wachten, van heinde en verre zijn sommigen afgereisd naar Eindhoven om hem te horen spreken: Homi Bhabha (1949). Rechtstreeks vanuit het vliegtuig komt de charismatische en charmante man binnenstappen waarop iedereen in een vererend stilzwijgen valt. Continue Reading »

Due to the strike in France the lecturer of today, Catherine David could not be here. Instead there was an impromptu panel with Deborah Cherry, Galit Eilat and Shaheen Merali. Deborah Cherry introduced the other two speakers and told the audience how these hours would be filled. Continue Reading »

De vierde Museumnacht was goed gevuld. En niet alleen met verschillende workshops, kunstwerken, documentaires en optredens. Er was een flink aantal bezoekers in alle leeftijdsgroepen die kunst bekeken, meededen aan de workshops en het oude en het nieuwe gebouw vulden. Continue Reading »

The panel of Nezha Haffou, Kitty Zijlmans and John Clark talked this afternoon mostly about the position of foreign artists in a new country. How do they cope in a new environment, a different culture and alsmost always a different language? They started by each giving a short presentation and their point of view. Continue Reading »

To understand our society we must first know about our history, says Charles Esche in his opening speech. Knowledge is crucial to understand certain things, so not only must we know our own history, we also need to understand the history of other countries around us. This is why in today’s panel there were three international guests who all presented their projects. In a packed auditorium curator Tone O. Nielsen (Denmark) starts with the presentation of her project ‘Rethinking Nordic Colonialism’ (A Postcolonial Exhibition Project in Five Acts). Continue Reading »

This morning at eleven o’clock the second public weekend of the Be[com]ing Dutch Eindhoven Caucus started with an introduction by Annie Fletcher. She immediately made clear that this welcome was actually meant to be for the non-participants because the participants heard this story more than once. With a short explanation about the goal and purpose of Be[com]ing Dutch she informed the audience about what they could expect. Continue Reading »

Vanochtend om elf uur ging het tweede publieke weekend van Be[com]ing Dutch Eindhoven Caucus van start met een introductie van Annie Fletcher. Ze gaf meteen al aan dat dit welkom eigenlijk gericht is naar de niet–deelnemers omdat, onder licht gegrinnik van de zaal, de deelnemers dit verhaal al meer dan genoeg hebben gehoord. Continue Reading »