Loot: A Staff from Suriname
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| free admission |
| English |
| Part of: SPÄTI |
| Belongs to: Loot. 10 Stories |
Robbery, violence, injustice: it is rare to find references to this in the documentation of the origin of objects in museum collections. This is not the case with a staff from Suriname in South America, one of the central exhibits in the exhibition “Loot”: the index card states that it was stolen from an unsuspecting Surinamese villager when he entered a shop at the Wanhatti mission station.
More than 100 years later, Onias Landveld, a Dutch multidisciplinary artist with Surinamese roots, approaches the staff in a video piece by Loot’s creative directors and guest curators Jongsma + O’Neill. The triangular encounter documented in the video—between Onias, the staff, and Ethnology Museum curator Andrea Scholz—provides the starting point for an on-stage conversation about this first meeting and the potential collaborations that have arisen in its wake. In a spoken word performance, Onias Landveld also processes the encounter with the staff from the land of his ancestors from an artistic perspective.
Moderation: Jan Linders
Programme
4.30 p. m.: DJ Set by Alex Stolze
6 p. m.: Onias Landveld (Spoken Word)
6.30 p. m.: Talk with Andrea Scholz, Onias Landveld, and Jan Linders
Afterwards: DJ playlist by Alex Stolze
The temporary exhibition “Loot. 10 stories” can be visited from 22 March on the 3rd floor (room 312). Further objects from Suriname can be viewed on the 2nd floor (room 208). The exhibition areas can be visited from 10:30 – 18:30.
A temporary exhibition initiated and developed by the Mauritshuis in The Hague in partnership with guest curators and creative directors Jongsma + O’Neill, and realised in cooperation with the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin and the Ethnologisches Museum and Museum für Asiatische Kunst der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
Participants
Onias Landveld is a Dutch multidisciplinary artist and playwright who also uses spoken word and animation in his work. Both his parents have Surinamese Maroon roots (Saamaka and Ndyuka). As a child, his family had to flee South America due to the civil war and, although his family did move back to Suriname, Onias returned to the Netherlands in 1998. Onias has a strong connection to his community of origin, their traditions and knowledge – he has been in contact with the Ethnologisches Museum/Humboldt Forum regarding an object in the collection that was taken from the Ndyuka village Wanhatti, where Onias’ uncle is a traditional leader.
Alex Stolze is an East German Jewish musician, producer and songwriter. His art reflects a life spent engaging with his Jewish identity and connection with Israel. He is active in educational work and organises events, including music festivals and those related to the Jewish community. Alex is currently involved in an educational project at the Ethnologisches Museum/Humboldt Forum on the subject of “Entangled Memories”, which aims to develop workshops and guided tours on the topics of colonialism and the Holocaust with partners from Namibia, Rwanda, Jamaica, Israel and Berlin.
Andrea Scholz is curator for transcultural collaboration in the Ethnologisches Museum and Museum für Asiatische Kunst in Berlin. She is a trained anthropologist with a focus on Amazonia and has been working in various collaborative projects with indigenous communities and educational projects, mainly in Latin America.
Jan Linders (host) is head of programme at the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss.