Grabbing The Land Archives

• Date: 31 May
• Time 13:00 - 17:00
• Location: West Den Haag

This participatory workshop reveals the historical and ongoing land struggles of Indonesian farmers through a curated series of archival landscape photographs, particularly in the context of postcolonial power transitions. The archives are drawn from various archival institutions in the Netherlands and are brought into conversation with present-day struggles. By unearthing overlooked archives and connecting them to contemporary struggles, the workshop invites people from all backgrounds to reflect on memory, land, and justice. Together, we read and reclaim the reality of displacement while grabbing the land archives in an active, collective way.

The Vacuum Landscape is a post-(de)colonial art collective formed by artists from Asia. They work with archives and visual art to navigate land rights, the realities of displacement, and solidarity with ongoing resistance movements.

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