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And FOR SURE check out the episode: https://soundcloud.com/utrechtuniversity/unsettling-knowledge-26-behind-the-book-creolizing-the-modern

Unsettling Knowledge #26: Behind the Book: Creolizing the Modern In this episode of Unsettling Knowledge, RMA student Robert Jastrzebski sits down for a virtual conversation with Manuela Boatcă and Anca Parvulescu to discuss their newly released book, Creolizing th

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EPISODE 22: IMPRINTS

In this episode, Dr. Rachel Gillett is joined by Dr. Grace Leksana and artist Elia Nurvista. They discuss Elia Nurvista's artwork, now on display at the Wereldmuseum in Amsterdam, and ask how it shows the impact of colonialism. The conversation, like the artwork, explores themes of food, gender, and artistic techniques. Elia's work invites us to think about how and why certain things of colonial and post-colonial Indonesia are remembered (or not.) This episode, brings Elia's art into conversation with Grace Leksana's research, and their rich discussion opened up insights into how colonialism has been remembered in Indonesia.
Dr. Grace Leksana is an Assistant Professor in Indonesian history in the Cultural History section of Utrecht University.Her most recent publication is: Memory culture of the anti Leftist violence in Indonesia: Embedded Remembering (Amsterdam University Press, 2023).
You can find her book here: https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463723565/memory-culture-of-the-anti-leftist-violence-in-indonesia
Elia Nurvista is an artist who explores a wide range of art mediums with an interdisciplinary approach and often intersects with politics of food. Through food, she intends to scrutinize power, social, and economic inequality in this world. Using several mediums from workshop, study group, publication, site specific, performance, video and art installations, she explores the social implications of the food system to critically address the wider issues such as ecology, gender, class and geopolitics.
You can check out her art at the website here: https://elianurvista.com/
Also, her art at the exhibition at the Wereldmuseum: https://amsterdam.wereldmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/imprints
If you are interested in this subject, we recommend you check out: 12. What is the Black Atlantic? By Rachel Gillett (youtube.com)
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Unsettling Knowledge #22: Imprints Listen to this episode from Utrecht University on Spotify. In this episode, Dr. Rachel Gillett is joined by Dr. Grace Leksana and artist Elia Nurvista. They discuss Elia Nurvista's artwork, now on display at the Wereldmuseum in Amsterdam, and ask how it shows the impact of colonialism. The conversat...

This was a 2023 highlight! Valerie-Ann Edmond-Mariette, Bérénice Boukaré, Amanda Annemans, and the back of host Rachel Gillett's head! A quick pic from our wonderful conversation on the Martinican musician-hero Eugene Mona. It also initiated our multi-lingual "micro-cast" series, which has an EXTRA special edition coming out soon

COMING SOON: EPISODE 23 IMPRINTS

Keep an eye out for our new episode in which we will talk about a new exhibition at the Wereldmuseum Amsterdam. The exhibition is called Imprints and it explores the question: What does it mean to live in the present with the colonial past? A question will we take up in a discussion with an artist who contributed to the exhibition and an academic expert in the field.

See below for more information about the exhibition.
https://amsterdam.wereldmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/imprints