Naima Hassan

The RCMC is extremely honoured to welcome Naima Hassan, who will engage in a research project titled Networks of Care and Refusal: Mapping Diasporic Presences at the RCMC.

TheMuseumsLab is a knowledge-exchange programme for joint learning and sharing between and among African and European museums. The project is financed by the German Federal Foreign Office and supported by the German Minister of State for Culture and the Media as well as the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.

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Collection item: 7249-1 A collective project. Ontwerp & Productie: Werkgroep Het Bijlmer Inspiratie Huis Voorzitter: Helen Burleson Esajas & leden: Astrid Jibodh, Juliette Peroti & Lizette Pinas; Design hoofddoek: Earl Peroti: Designed the depicted angisa (Surinamese headcloth) in 2018 to commemorate the fiftieth year anniversary of the Amsterdam neighbourhood of the Bijlmer, in the South East of the city. Samenwerkende organisaties:
Stichting 50 jar Bijlmer & Stichting Beheer het Groeiend Monument https://collectie.wereldculturen.nl/#/query/dbff8c22-79c2-4487-a05d-5c9fab79b369

Research Project | Networks of Care and Refusal: Mapping ‘Diasporic’ Presences at the RCMC

At the RCMC, Naima hopes to map local diaspora networks that have informed the institute’s decolonial culture. Naima will research and reactivate RCMC’s 50 Years Bijlmer programme—organised across 2018 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Bijlmer neighbourhood of Amsterdam. Drawing on AbdouMalique Simone's People as Infrastructure paper (2004) and Clémentine Deliss’s Metabolic Museum (2020), she will delve into institutional archives and initiate conversations in an attempt to map the situated knowledge emerging from Bijlmer communities, along with the political, artistic, and social movements which have emerged from it. Positioning herself as a critical guest and interlocuter, Naima aims to form an embodied understanding of diaspora networks working with Dutch museums. In return, she offers an institutional mirror to the RCMC.

Biography

Naima Hassan is a researcher, curator and co-founder of SITAAD, a platform and curatorial-practice focused on the habitation of colonial sites, museums, and archives. Since 2022, she has led the development of the G.A.S. Library and Picton Archive at G.A.S. Foundation as Associate Curator and Archivist. Under the multi-year programme Re:assemblages, she aims to connect the collections to a transnational network of communities, artists, scholars, and institutions. Between 2023-24 she is a Liberal Arts Engagement Hub Fellow at the University of Minnesota in association with Soomaal House of Art and the Immigration History Research Center Archives. She is an alumni member of TheMuseumsLab's 2024 Steering Committee and research member of Nieuwe Instituut's Indian Oceans Working Group. She works in various locations including Berlin, London and Lagos.

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