The Black (W)hole (2021)
During Museum Night Amsterdam on Saturday, November 6, 2021, the Tropenmuseum showcased "The Black (W)hole," a collage of film, music and performance that serves as the climactic conclusion to Radical Space, an interdisciplinary artistic journey that I curated. This event is the culmination of what was created at SHEBANG, an innovative creative platform that began this summer with me as guest-curator and program coordinator. Under the working title ‘Radical Space,’ I invited a diverse group of (inter)national and local artists explored and critiqued the gentrification process in Southeast Amsterdam.
On the second floor of the Tropenmuseum, science fiction, spirituality, and activism converge in the art project "The Black (W)hole." The Radical Space collective helps you escape the rat race of status, politics, and capitalism. Through films and performances, they reveal that the all-consuming black hole can also be a space for reflection, healing, and breaking away from current realities.
The name The Black (W)hole was given to this event by the participating artist Rohan Ayinde. Radical Space is composed of artists such as Poernima Gobardhan and Djuwa Mroivili, Poetronic (Smita James and Chris Chi), Adama Delphine Fawundu, and Rohan Ayinde. Curated by Richard Kofi, this project is commissioned by the nomadic development platform SHEBANG in Amsterdam Southeast, a project by the Bijlmer Parktheater, CBK Zuidoost and Imagine IC.
This project embodies my mission to intertwine art, heritage, and the histories with a vision of liberation.
* SHEBANG is een initiatief van het Bijlmer Parktheater, CBK Zuidoost en Imagine IC.
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