After Nutmeg | Elia Nurvista and Nuraini Juliastuti | Research Center for Material Culture

PUBLIC EVENTS | 16 & 17 October 2024 | Wereldmuseum Amsterdam

The Research Center for Material Culture and the Wereldmuseum Amsterdam are delighted to host After Nutmeg, two series of public events: a walking tour and an artist workshop — led by Elia Nurvista and Nuraini Juliastuti on the 16th and 17th of October, as a furtherance of the exhibition Imprints in Wereldmuseum Amsterdam, as well as a continuation of Nuraini Juliastuti's research fellowship at the Research Center for Material Culture.

Disclaimer: both events are free of charge - free ticket registration for the workshop on the 17th can be found below.

photo credit: installation photo of Elia Nurvista's series of works in Imprints. Photography by Rick Mandoeng

Open gallery

Day 1: 16 October | Walking Tour | 14.00 - 16.30

Please note that no ticket is required for this tour. Please bring a raincoat and/or an umbrella in case of rainy weather. Hot chocolate will be provided.

14.00: Meet at entrance of Wereldmuseum Amsterdam: Linnaeusstraat 2, 1092 CK Amsterdam

The workshop will start with a walking tour of the outside facade of the museum building and (part) of the KIT building in Amsterdam. This walking tour will attempt to question and further highlight the visible sculptural reliefs on the facade of the building that was once called 'the Colonial Institute' from 1910, to now in 2024, what is called both the Wereldmuseum Amsterdam and the KIT: Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen \ The Royal Tropical Institute. This walking tour will provide another way of looking at the building, to unpack what the sculptural and architectural reliefs provide in terms of knowledge formation of the Dutch colonial project, and what it means to have it be presented in this kind of visible and public way. The walking tour will continue to explore the neighbourhood area around the museum.

Day 2: 17 October | Artist Workshop | 14.00 - 16.30 | Studio, Wereldmuseum Amsterdam

Location: Studio, Wereldmuseum Amsterdam

Based on the ongoing research around food politics, agriculture and plantation, the afterlives of colonialism, Elia Nurvista and Nuraini Juliastuti respectively have chosen a selection of objects from the museum collection. Elia and Nuraini will have a ‘show and tell’ session to narrate the chosen objects. Using certain keywords, Elia selected particular objects related to the colonial plantation histories which can shed light on the neoliberal practices in natural resources commerce. Nuraini traced various objects around sea cucumber, cassava, fishing bait, boat models, to narrate the forgotten histories of maritime and farming culture. The workshop will reflect on how the museum collection impacts the new narratives of the colonial archives that they attempt to develop in their research. The participants of the workshop will be invited to create their alternative narratives on the objects presented.

Accessibility: Entry to the museum building is possible via either stairs or an elevator. The studio is located on the second floor of the museum, entry is possible via the staircase inside the museum building or via the elevator.

Image credit: Vervaardiging: Mevr. S.C. (Susanna Carolina) De Wildt - de Bije, Indonesië, voor 1970 Aquarel op papier, 44,5 × 28,5cm, TM-3897-24. Wereldmuseum

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Elia Nurvista

Elia Nurvista explores a wide range of art mediums with an interdisciplinary approach and often intersects with politics of food. Through food, she intends to scrutinize power, social, and economic inequality in this world. Using several mediums from workshop, study group, publication, site specific, performance, video and art installations, she explores the social implications of the food system to critically address the wider issues such as ecology, gender, class and geopolitics.

In 2015 she initiated Bakudapan, a food study group, with colleagues from various disciplines. Bakudapan runs on the principle of complementarity and camaraderie between its members. With Bakudapan she has conducted cross references research on food within the socio-political-cultural context. She is also part of Struggles for Sovereignty, the solidarity platform on Land, Water, Farming, Food which aim to build lasting solidarity between groups in Indonesia and trans-national who are engaged with struggles for the right to self-determination over the basic resources that our individual and collective bodies need.

Nuraini Juliastuti

Nuraini Juliastuti is currently a visiting fellow for the first half of 2024 at the Research Center for Material Culture. She is a translocal practising researcher and writer who focusses on art organisations, activism, illegality, alternative cultural production and unofficial, everyday practices of vernacular archiving.

In 1999, Nuraini had co-founded the Kunci Study Forum & Collective in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. During its first decade, Kunci contributed to the public discourse on the arts and culture in post-1998 Indonesia by publishing Newsletter Kunci and a mailing list. Since 2016, Kunci has established instead a long-term project, the School of Improper Education.

Nuraini took up a postdoctoral fellowship under the Worlding Public Culture: Art and Social Innovation project (2020-2022) where she produced a chapbook manuscript Commons Museums: Pedagogies for Taking Ownership of What is Lost (ICI Berlin Press, July 2024). In 2022, Nuraini conducted a research commission from the Amsterdam based arts organisation If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution as part of Edition IX–Bodies and Technologies. Taking the storytelling dimension of the ‘commons museums’ practices further, Nuraini developed a script where storytelling is activated as a form of archival technology and used as intergenerational knowledge transmission. The script Stories of Wounds and Wonder is published by the If I Can’t Dance accompanied with the workshop and Display Companion — an exhibition of the archives related to the book making in Framer Framed in February 2024.