Hallo, halo, hello! Hallo Bandung
Who am I, where am I from, how does this influence me, how does the other see mee, what is identity and when do I appropriate it?
Hallo Bandoeng, Willy Derby’s song from 1929, is about radiocontact (Radio Kootwijk!) in the same time period with the Dutch-Indies. This programme of the same name asks questions about cultural identity and acknowledging your own history.
Programme makers Eva Verboon and Ilana van den Berg have Dutch roots, just like a million other Dutchmen.
Now that they are noticing that the knowledge about their own descendancy is disappearing along with the first generation of Indos. they are starting to question what it means to be Indo more and more. Who am I, where am I from, how does this influence me, how does the other see mee, what is identity and when do I appropriate it? These questions are also central in both Liquid, Motel Mozaique’s theme of this year, and the exhibition Apa Kabar? (What’s new?) in MAMA’s showroom. The perfect match for a collaboration.
Together with Eva, Ilana and MOMO we are presenting a unique multidisciplinary programme in MAMA’s showroom. The questions we asked above and different elements from Indo culture are (re)mixed in a playful way, accompanied with a musical frame by Maurits Westerik (bewilder) and Jason Kohnen (Bong-Ra).
This programme is mostly in Dutch!
This event is organised in collaboration with Motel Mozaique, Eva Verboon and Ilana van den Berg as part of MAMA’s exhibition Apa kabar? (What’s new?).
About IRL
Our lives are dominated by the self-produced realities that we encounter on the internet and social media. This tension between fact and fiction touches upon the core of our leitmotiv IN REAL LIFE. The only way to escape the post-truth is to meet each other in real life. We facilitate these meetings in the form of readings, lectures, masterclasses, workshops, excursions and parties that tangibly express the ideas behind HOME | IN REAL LIFE | NETWORKS.
