BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:27210@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:AMN x wysiwyg: Can you hear the objects speak? DTSTAMP:20260909T200827Z DTSTART:20261015T190000Z DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, the Dutch government has launched a series of critical\ninquiries into the ethics of restitution—addressing looted arti facts and even\nhuman remains held in the national collection. Moving beyo nd straightforward\nprovenance tracing\, these investigations have raised more fundamental\,\nopen-ended questions about value\, ownership\, and jus tice.\n\nDerived from Beyond Provenance\, a transnational collaboration be tween art\ncollective Indeks from Bandung and screening platform wysiwyg f rom The Hague\,\nthis interdisciplinary film program\, Can you hear the ob jects speak? by Asian\nMovie Night and wysiwyg\, seeks to reclaim the livi ng worlds of displaced\nheritage. Rather than focusing solely on material significance—a logic that\noften mirrored colonial frameworks of preservat ion—the program foregrounds the\nemotional\, cultural\, spiritual\, and co mmunal values these objects hold for the\ncommunities from which they were taken\, as a gateway to understand the animist\nand relational cosmopraxi s shared by many Indigenous nations in the present day\nIndonesia.\n\nThro ugh film\, conversation\, and performance\, we will listen to the voices o f\nancestral beings held hostage in museums\, mineral stones extracted for AI\ntechnology\, as well as the ghostly presence in the streets of Amster dam built by\nlooted wealth. In doing so\, it challenges the Western ontol ogical impulse to\nturn living beings into static objects\, and instead re awakens a sense of\nliveness\, agency\, and wisdom in the beings we connec t with\, thus learning\ndifferent ways of relating—ways that may help us n ot only rethink restitution\,\nbut also reimagine worlds and futures beyon d the crisis we are facing.\n\n * Language: Indonesia\, English\n * Subtit les: Engels\n * Duration: 90 mins.\n * Country: Indonesia\, the Netherland s\, Australia\, India URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/amn-x-wysiwyg-can-you-hear-the-objects- speak GEO:52.36476;4.8843948 LOCATION:De Uitkijk - Prinsengracht 452\, 1017 KE Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:amsterdam-centrum,community,film,leidseplein,movie night,perform ance X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

In recent years, the Dutch government has l aunched a series of critical inquiries into the ethics of restitution—addr essing looted artifacts and even human remains held in the national collec tion. Moving beyond straightforward provenance tracing, these investigatio ns have raised more fundamental, open-ended questions about value, ownersh ip, and justice.

Derived from Beyond Provenance, a transnational co llaboration between art collective Indeks from Bandung and screening platf orm wysiwyg from The Hague, this interdisciplinary film program, Can you h ear the objects speak? by Asian Movie Night and wysiwyg, seeks to reclaim the living worlds of displaced heritage. Rather than focusing solely on ma terial significance—a logic that often mirrored colonial frameworks of pre servation—the program foregrounds the emotional, cultural, spiritual, and communal values these objects hold for the communities from which they wer e taken, as a gateway to understand the animist and relational cosmopraxis shared by many Indigenous nations in the present day Indonesia.

T hrough film, conversation, and performance, we will listen to the voices o f ancestral beings held hostage in museums, mineral stones extracted for A I technology, as well as the ghostly presence in the streets of Amsterdam built by looted wealth. In doing so, it challenges the Western ontological impulse to turn living beings into static objects, and instead reawakens a sense of liveness, agency, and wisdom in the beings we connect with, thu s learning different ways of relating—ways that may help us not only rethi nk restitution, but also reimagine worlds and futures beyond the crisis we are facing.

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