Theory — Mar 24, 2021

This afternoon is hosted by CPR (Charlotte Rooijackers).

Price
All lectures can be attended online via our website and the website of the Studium Generale Rietveld Academie.  Watch lecture
Location
Livestream from Stedelijk Teijin Auditorium
Time
Mar 24, 2021, 1 pm until 4.30 pm
Main language
English

Booty

Booty – valuable stolen goods, especially those seized in war. 

Booty – someone's bottom.

Origin: Probably an alteration of 'body'.

Booty, coercively expropriated goods, often in colonial and/or imperialist warfare, have il/legally shown up in public museums and/as private collections of geopolitical artefacts for centuries. How are acts of recovery and reclamation organized and negotiated? 

This afternoon on booty offers a collective eco-poetic reading of the material conditionings and positionings of our museum bodies at (the) stake. To make use of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s vocabulary, we are faced with epistemic violence, brainwashing in common tongue: how some knowledge systems are not considered to be part of knowledge production, and particular cultural heritage remain unacknowledged as neither cultivated nor inherited (Lifepatch).

Participants: CPR (Charlotte Rooijackers), Arahmaiani Feisal, Aude Mgba, Lifepatch, Nur’Ain, Stephanie Welvaart

How to read this space? Reading, lezen in Dutch tongue as archeism means ‘gathering’, or ‘collecting’ the ears of leftover grains after harvesting, from arenlezen, in English gleaning is the collecting of information from various sources with difficulty. How can we collect and gather and read within such constructed margins of the productive field/s of cultivation? What to make of this intersectional feminized bottom/s of society? Used to an (art)historical canon, how to dismantle epistemic violence? Who or what will learn us to read differently? What to look at? Who to listen to?

Together, the artists-activists and other reading speakers this afternoon, show and share hands, heads, faces, tongues, and spirit/s, towards a reconfiguration of a historical present.

About CPR

The afternoon is g/hosted by CPR, a nom de plume in affinity with heart massage and toward agroecological* reclamations of feminised common-pool resources. They write on intoxication via the concept Pharmakon, which considers all materials and substances capable of healing, creating, poisoning, and killing, depending on their dosage.

* agroecology is the not-scientific variant of agriculture, incorporating traditional and extensive cultivation of plants, lands, and not-necessarily-human people/s. 

For this event CPR is represented by Charlotte Rooijackers who has worked as arts writer for the SGRA program since 2013. She shows up with and without work at various institutions for art and agriculture, with upcoming works in Sonsbeek 20-24 and The Botanical Revolution in Centraal Museum Utrecht.