From exhibitions, public programming, research to documentaries and advice.
We believe in the power of research, storytelling and art as a way to connect on intellectual as well as emotional levels when it comes to colonial legacies.
Beyond Walls initiates and curates independently and in collaboration with a diversity of partners. From public programming, exhibitions, community projects and research to documentaries, artistic interventions and advice.
We aim for longterm partnership and structural impact.
Key to our work method is the combination of research, storytelling and art.
Agency, locality and co-creation are core pillars of our approach. Inspired by Taiye Selasi’s vision on locality and the critical work on unlearning imperialism by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay.
We center the impact of Dutch/European colonialism, as well as questions on political and institutional responsibility and accountability. This way we address the entanglement of personal stories, colonial history and contemporary world we live in.
Our work
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RESEARCH SLAVERY PAST OF EINDHOVEN Beyond Walls is invited by the city of Eindhoven to conduct an inventory research of the Slavery past of Eindhoven
PUBLIC RESEARCH BASED INTERVENTION: OOSTCAST straatnamen Amsterdam Oost (The Black Archives, Gemeente Amsterdam, Buro Braak) Public History Project
ARTISTIC INTERVENTION/ONLINE FILMS: Dichter bij Onze koloniale erfenis (Tropenmuseum) 2022/2023
RESEARCH: Zeeman op de uitkijk (Gemeente Amsterdam) Research on the history and afterlives of the WOII Monument Zeeman op de Uitkijk
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ARTISTIC INTERVENTION/ONLINE FILMS: Dichter bij Onze koloniale erfenis (Tropenmuseum)
EXHIBITION/ONLINE FILMS: Afterlives of Revolusi (Rijksmuseum)
PUBLIC/ONLINE PROGRAM: Revolusi Indonesia-Freedom and Resistance (Rode Hoed)
DOCUMENTARY: Antara Dua Bulan (Erasmushuis Jakarta, Ecko Dance company, SPRING Utrecht)
RESEARCH RESIDENCY: Felix Meritis’ Slavery history and colonial roots of (Felix Meritis)
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