CGD The Critical Visitor.pdf
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… on these questions by engaging with the criticality and the needs and demands of ‘the critical visitor’ to heritage spaces, as imagined or actually articulated. Over a period of four years, we met in different constellations and different settings, online during the Covid pandemic, to learn from each other and to find ways of supporting each other in our search for more equitability. The project was set 16 17 GATHERING CRITICAL VISITORS TOGETHER up based on the idea of ‘practice what you preach’, … them for broader application; (2) the Queer Salon series at Het Nieuwe Instituut to bring together intersectional groups of publics and GATHERING CRITICAL VISITORS TOGETHER personnel from ‘insider’ dominant collections and ‘outsider’ archives to exchange perspectives on inclusivity and accessi- bility; and (3) the expert meet-ups for Archival Interactions that brought together artists and archivists to develop strategies for conducting intersectional archive/artistic research especially when … After we declared our intention to exhibit The Monument of Regents, Kensmil created several other works. A double portrait of Maria Munter and Isaac Jan Nijs depicts an Amsterdam cou- ple of regents whose families were involved in Dutch colonial trading companies. Maria Munter was also a regentess of the Civil Orphanage on Kalverstraat, which became the main loca- tion of the Amsterdam Museum in 1975. White Elephant (2019), a large VOC ship at sea, and Selva Amazon (2020), a landscape, both …