![]() My overall practice is informed by my educational background in museology and cultural analysis, as well as my own experiences as a Malaysian-Dutch woman navigating the arts and cultural sector in the Netherlands. For this reason, I always strive to use an interdisciplinary approach within my work, while recognizing the situatedness of my own knowledge. I believe that new and radical perspectives are never born in isolation, but are rather the complex entanglements of different histories and knowledge. A longstanding intuition of mine has been that art is not an agentless material ‘thing’ but rather a ‘doing.’ My goal as a researcher is to re-imagine new ways of being and doing through artistic, curatorial, and institutional interventions, bridging theory and praxis. The arts hold the power to help us see the world differently. Much gratitude to the team of Buro Stedelijk. Listening for two days was a fun exercise seeing the many layers in which the arts have the potential to facilitate different ways of presenting, delivering labour, curating and story-telling was very inspiring. From this place I wrote my reflection on the Listening Sessions. I am inspired by my educational background in museology, post/decolonial studies, migration, climate justice, ritual studies, cultural analysis and feminist studies. I approach such themes through (micro) histories of resistance, by analysing power structures always in connection to the present and the future embodied in the arts. My interests as a researcher and curator focus on long-term change globally & locally. This means that the arts not only create a (critical) space to reflect & to innovate, but also create space to celebrate and support life stories and social relationships. ![]() In my vision, the arts have the potential to bring people together in new ways by placing social relationships, aspects of daily life, ‘care’ and life stories in new contexts.
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