SHISHANI & SISTERHOOD
A storytelling concertfilm where stories, art and colonial legacies collide. For this show artist Shishani dives into the various stories and art forms from Maluku, Namibia, Papua, Sumatra and Java and creates her own artistic interpretation in a 35 minutes storytelling concert film. Shishani brings together a diverse line-up of multi-disciplinary performers centralizing female artists.

Shishani “I think it as very important that we were in that space, on our own terms, playing our own rhythms and speaking our language. Because I am used to walking in museums and seeing depictions of Africans, Papuans or Asians as something we look at and exhibit. But it does not necessarily feel like our place, our home.

To be there, walk down the big stairs and just hear the tifa through the hallway and just look at all the other women. It really felt like though we can’t repair what has happened, it does feel like we are taking in the space for the first time in a way that kinda does right to history. Like a cleansing for yourself and to your own mothers and grandmothers.” - Shishani

With artists:
Shishani Vranckx (concept, vocals, guitar)
Jaimie van Hek (bass)
Tiga Batang Rumah (tifa)
Tieka Masfar (spoken word)
Wulan Dumatubun (gamelan) 
Asih Sungkono (dance) 
Sabine Bolk (batik storytelling)
Eveline Carels (drums)
Sandra Sahupala (percussion) 

SHISHANI & SISTERHOOD is a concept and production by Shishani in collaboration with Erasmus Huis Jakarta and BEYOND WALLS. With special thanks to Het Tropenmuseum for facilitating the production.