Dates: Mar 14th to Apr 7th Times: Thur to Sun 13h-18h Free entrance
Amsterdam Noord has a unique history of multiculturalism. It hosted a shipyard that built ships that travelled all over the world (NDSM) and brought many migrant workers from different origins into the post-war period. Making use of the implications of this unique location, Treehouse NDSM has developed the exhibition Tongues.
Areas where many cultures and languages come together create spaces of in-betweenness that raise questions about what constitutes a home, and about how people formulate and reformulate their identity based on the culture or language they find themselves in.
Searching for home and a sense of self, in Tongues, eleven artists explore how they view these issues by responding to a written text that is important to their sense of belonging or un-belonging. Together, these texts and artworks will form a new narrative, a new tongue that speaks to a broader sense of home, community, and identity in an increasingly multicultural society.
Opening event: March 14th at 18h
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Can Bora, Susanna Brenner, Anthea Bush, Finn Caird, Rika Maja Duevel, Randy Fokke, Alexandra Freye, Britt Geerdink, Lorena Rode, Polina Shuvalova, Dejana Vuckovic Simovic, Ainhoa Pérez Echepare and Álvaro Rey de Viñas.
SIDE-ACTIVITIES / WORKSHOPS
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/ This exhibition is made possible by the contribution of Amsterdamse Fonds voor de Kunst. /