https://rootstofruits.info Roots to Fruits Tue, 14 Oct 2025 09:02:08 +0000 https://rootstofruits.info en https://rootstofruits.info/Emptying-the-Shelves Tue, 14 Oct 2025 09:02:08 +0000 Roots to Fruits https://rootstofruits.info/Emptying-the-Shelves Roots to Fruits Emptying the Shelves Launch: 22 October 2025 <img width="1595" height="2256" width_o="1595" height_o="2256" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee96185b9c55ced945bc2514d31053dc9dbbda36c2070e17a827c13075da3756/ETS-COVER.jpg" data-mid="240188458" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ee96185b9c55ced945bc2514d31053dc9dbbda36c2070e17a827c13075da3756/ETS-COVER.jpg" /> <img width="3508" height="2548" width_o="3508" height_o="2548" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/381592396c6ac801914311ab887d8c5c9b0aca2edaf13fe7c9544ad0a5271e34/ETS-7-copy.png" data-mid="240188444" border="0" 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width="3508" height="2548" width_o="3508" height_o="2548" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b2b4d774e06edbc09cf2b73e30dfe6ff8af30d34d674b4a6690934d151ad082/ETS-45-copy.png" data-mid="240188948" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b2b4d774e06edbc09cf2b73e30dfe6ff8af30d34d674b4a6690934d151ad082/ETS-45-copy.png" /> <img width="3508" height="2548" width_o="3508" height_o="2548" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3db3956b65e93105d057b7b3b6bd6e43e7a856fd202c2543576f5be7ba643439/ETS-48-copy.png" data-mid="240188452" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3db3956b65e93105d057b7b3b6bd6e43e7a856fd202c2543576f5be7ba643439/ETS-48-copy.png" /> <img width="3508" height="2548" width_o="3508" height_o="2548" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/73c491f032715568d4eb0cef9bc036afcffeabf15407beebdcd4f95299d01d99/ETS-50-copy.png" data-mid="240188949" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/73c491f032715568d4eb0cef9bc036afcffeabf15407beebdcd4f95299d01d99/ETS-50-copy.png" /> Emptying the Shelves traces how Dutch ethnographic museums – among them the Dutch National Museum of World Cultures and its predecessors – have shaped and reshaped their displays over the past century. Drawing on a trove of archival exhibition photographs and contemporary essays, it charts the transition from crowded cabinets to austere white cube displays, with most objects now in storage facilities. With texts by Tamarah Kerr de Haan, Clémentine Deliss and Mirjam Shatanawi, this publication examines what it means to engage with these objects today and how their silence is intimately connected to colonial legacies, restitution and repair. Edited by Mirelle van Tulder Design by Victoria Lum Published by Roots to Fruits, co-published by Framer Framed 2025. 135 x 190 mm, 528 p.; 240 b/w illustrations, text: English. Distribution Worldwide: Idea Books UK: Public Knowledge Books https://rootstofruits.info/Catalogue-of-Stolen-Objects Mon, 07 Apr 2025 06:35:46 +0000 Roots to Fruits https://rootstofruits.info/Catalogue-of-Stolen-Objects Mirelle van Tulder Catalogue of Stolen Objects, Courtesy of&nbsp; Launch: LA Art Book Fair, May 15, 2025 <img width="2445" height="3302" width_o="2445" height_o="3302" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/433a4195a638c8b8db433945ea0b718a5afd5d2da62ec9fedefc465d99a1e20d/cover-catalogue-copy.jpg" data-mid="231802210" border="0" data-scale="76" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/433a4195a638c8b8db433945ea0b718a5afd5d2da62ec9fedefc465d99a1e20d/cover-catalogue-copy.jpg" /> <img width="805" height="1071" width_o="805" height_o="1071" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e8a63d6bd06f0c416d0b3bd60cac881500bd89f30c7fa6dd979e0d5f4ac66d7d/essay.jpg" data-mid="231800419" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/805/i/e8a63d6bd06f0c416d0b3bd60cac881500bd89f30c7fa6dd979e0d5f4ac66d7d/essay.jpg" /> <img width="805" height="1071" width_o="805" height_o="1071" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d013ea961bf456cd9d3ef4e45b8928006eebfe3df4b2f6387b9955b3858d4f4b/cover-copy.jpg" data-mid="231800822" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/805/i/d013ea961bf456cd9d3ef4e45b8928006eebfe3df4b2f6387b9955b3858d4f4b/cover-copy.jpg" /> “In van Tulder’s work, by refusing the object, she objects to the gaze, and the categorisation and reductionism practices implied in its cataloguing. The empty spaces hint at a possible alternative, a negation of colonial attitudes of epistemological, institutionalised authority. Presenting the non-material instead, the artist both refuses and highlights the fetishistic container in which these images came into being. This gesture forces the viewer to confront their position—do we search for the missing object, or recognise the violence depicted in its absence? The work thus unfolds as an investigation into the act of looking at these photographed artefacts, in their found condition, dissected as they are from any context. The act of removal highlights the missing condition of these artefacts, and reminds us how this legacy is constructed from exclusion. The final work, an empty catalogue, calls for a dismantling of systems of representation that are aligned with colonial attitudes. 'Catalogue of Stolen Objects, Courtesy of’' makes visible the invisible (and buried) practices of erasure, displacement and subjugation that inform our worldview.”&nbsp;Excerpt from “Excizing the Gaze, Reframing Absence”, by Mariana Lobão 21 x 28 cm, 64 p.; 129 b/w illustrations, text: English. Amsterdam, 2025. https://rootstofruits.info/Roots-to-Fruits-No1 Sun, 02 Oct 2022 10:14:12 +0000 Roots to Fruits https://rootstofruits.info/Roots-to-Fruits-No1 Roots to Fruits Nº1 Ghanaian Highlife, 2022 Launch: 14 October 2022, New York Art Book Fair <img width="900" height="1862" width_o="900" height_o="1862" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8302bd4483e621361b1910a1594e80aee95f6b527d9b4806ab28e99fb6881185/R2F900.jpg" data-mid="155274775" border="0" data-scale="40" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/8302bd4483e621361b1910a1594e80aee95f6b527d9b4806ab28e99fb6881185/R2F900.jpg" /> <img width="1824" height="1753" width_o="1824" height_o="1753" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e517bb3ddfed90906921e0bbfc2f098b5c70f5400cc98a233d551f7e46d05fce/R2F-WT-Shop-inside0.png" data-mid="155449903" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e517bb3ddfed90906921e0bbfc2f098b5c70f5400cc98a233d551f7e46d05fce/R2F-WT-Shop-inside0.png" /> <img width="1824" height="1753" width_o="1824" height_o="1753" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0a70fdf7c36f950fbf3622a3ef35d9ab298b3f85b3e5947102f26f58d30cebeb/R2F-WT-Shop-inside1.png" data-mid="155449904" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0a70fdf7c36f950fbf3622a3ef35d9ab298b3f85b3e5947102f26f58d30cebeb/R2F-WT-Shop-inside1.png" /> Roots to Fruits is a magazine about music; its migration and origins, and its role against oppression. The first issue is dedicated to Highlife and its vital role in the struggle for independence and the creation of an African identity during the time of Kwame Nkrumah. It features an article by Dele Adeyemo, and a visual essay by Mirelle with images from the archive of the Wereldmuseum (NL) and the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT). Dele Adeyemo’s ‘The Modernizing Beat’ rereads the production of space in a modernizing Ghana through highlife, taking the modernist New Town and Tema Harbour as a case study about how the emergence of the ‘worksong’ has governed urbanization in Ghana. The beat of highlife’s precursor, the worksong, bound the community together in collective life that was attuned to the rhythm of the tides and cycles of the seasons; the evolution of the highlife sound can tell a story of the circulation of cultures, commodities, and political-economic structures condensed into the spatial forms of a modernizing Ghana. Contributor: Dele AdeyemoEditing, Design and Riso printing:&nbsp;Mirelle van Tulder Print run:&nbsp;400 https://rootstofruits.info/Roots-to-Fruits-No-2 Wed, 06 Sep 2023 08:23:40 +0000 Roots to Fruits https://rootstofruits.info/Roots-to-Fruits-No-2 Roots to Fruits Nº2 Champeta, 2023 Launch:&nbsp;22–24 September 2023, Miss Read Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt <img width="800" height="1567" width_o="800" height_o="1567" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/50a80639be2e781a6e9f5a13e03c8213faaa6f96329b9d135bd731d7e7bce96a/r2f2-web.jpg" data-mid="195523045" border="0" data-scale="40" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/50a80639be2e781a6e9f5a13e03c8213faaa6f96329b9d135bd731d7e7bce96a/r2f2-web.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1996" width_o="2000" height_o="1996" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/804f42a9741b358e484aa7f97c693fde9d40fbd3dcf9e4df8c89c9c46f920790/champeta1.jpg" data-mid="189915693" border="0" data-scale="74" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/804f42a9741b358e484aa7f97c693fde9d40fbd3dcf9e4df8c89c9c46f920790/champeta1.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1995" width_o="2000" height_o="1995" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f91139f452c67cdadba4799fa357e00cc1d7d166f151c55018ff737459ab2a2/champeta2.jpg" data-mid="189915694" border="0" data-scale="74" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f91139f452c67cdadba4799fa357e00cc1d7d166f151c55018ff737459ab2a2/champeta2.jpg" /> Roots to Fruits Nº2 Champeta: A Colombian Caribbean Cultural Resistance In Roots to Fruits Nº2 Champeta, Edna Martinez tells the story of Champeta, an Afro-Colombian music genre based on African rhythms, from which local producers create new sonic, visual and spatial practices, as both an outcome and facilitator of cultures of resistance. The Picó Sound System of the Colombian Caribbean cities of Cartagena, Barranquilla and Santa Marta have created parties for people of their working-class neighborhoods, in particular for the Afro-Colombian diaspora. The issue explores the musical migration from Africa to Colombia; how it made the Afro-Colombian’s diaspora aware of its origins and colonial past; and how champeta has resisted marginalisation and continuous to break with hegemonic powers. We’re thrilled to be able to share an essay by Edna Martinez in this issue. Edna is an artist, DJ, and Curator of Music and Sonic Practices at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin. Contributor: Edna MartinezEditors:&nbsp;Daniel Senior Durán &amp; Mirelle van Tulder Design and Riso printing:&nbsp;Mirelle van Tulder Print run: 400 https://rootstofruits.info/Roots-to-Fruits-No3 Sat, 24 Aug 2024 14:02:06 +0000 Roots to Fruits https://rootstofruits.info/Roots-to-Fruits-No3 Roots to Fruits Nº3 Congada, 2024 Memórias Congadeiras <img width="1428" height="2825" width_o="1428" height_o="2825" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea9d79fdae2849339d1613898296cbd72bf719a1a0fd437965e950e76a15db40/R2F-cover2.jpg" data-mid="219878627" border="0" data-scale="41" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ea9d79fdae2849339d1613898296cbd72bf719a1a0fd437965e950e76a15db40/R2F-cover2.jpg" /> <img width="3176" height="3193" width_o="3176" height_o="3193" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f04137383db3f342ce190f8c17e8e0c9c8b3da2e455ef37ce79e97393d74be38/spread1.jpg" data-mid="216883082" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f04137383db3f342ce190f8c17e8e0c9c8b3da2e455ef37ce79e97393d74be38/spread1.jpg" /> <img width="3179" height="3185" width_o="3179" height_o="3185" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/343d6651dfa648bb0168e3544c541b1dbe48213f8af228f8fbe739a3caab8e9c/ROOTS-TO-FRUITS-NR3---28-29.jpg" data-mid="219878689" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/343d6651dfa648bb0168e3544c541b1dbe48213f8af228f8fbe739a3caab8e9c/ROOTS-TO-FRUITS-NR3---28-29.jpg" /> <img width="3190" height="3182" width_o="3190" height_o="3182" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b82c3f98717a55e0c9e3394434abd746221008f17ddec399c505dcfd4c6aa38/ROOTS-TO-FRUITS-NR3---36-37.jpg" data-mid="219878690" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b82c3f98717a55e0c9e3394434abd746221008f17ddec399c505dcfd4c6aa38/ROOTS-TO-FRUITS-NR3---36-37.jpg" /> Over the course of five decades, self-taught musician and ethnomusicologist Spirito Santo (1947) has produced hundreds of hours of audio recordings containing music, reports and interviews, many meters of black &amp; white negatives and colored slides using amateur photographic equipment, such as polaroids, point-and-shoot cameras and K7 recorders, capturing unique moments of the cultural history of the Central African diaspora in Minas Gerais, Brazil. This season of Roots to Fruits explores the building of a self-funded archive and one of its most recurrent themes, namely: Congadas. Far from the academic realm, which had little to no interest in understanding the “African culture in Brazil”, the archive tells many stories. It speaks of a resilient musician looking for resonance and the history of his people, as well as of the underexposed Black inheritance of Brazil’s identity. In Memórias Congadeiras, Spirito Santo and his son Caio Rosa challenge hundreds of years of Portuguese imperial rule that have dominated the memory-making processes taking place in Brazil’s society, carrying out a collective process of resistance against colonial erasure of the cultural expressions practiced by their ancestors. The precious intergenerational and intercontinental conversations that preceded this issue have shown us just how much knowledge and Brazilian history is still hidden in personal archives. Roots to Fruits Nº3 Congada is an homage to Spirito Santo’s life’s work, most of which has never been published before. Through revisited and lost memories, and nuances in translation, this unacknowledged history is now made globally accessible. Contributors: Spirito Santo &amp; Caio Rosa Editors: Juliana R. Senna &amp; Mirelle van Tulder Translation: Juliana R. Senna Final Editing: Tamara Hartman Editor-in-Chief: Mirelle van Tulder Graphic Design: Mirelle van Tulder Printing: Riso Paradiso Publisher: Roots to Fruits, Amsterdam 2024 48 pages (gold ink, looks better irl) https://rootstofruits.info/UMOJA Tue, 17 Dec 2024 17:11:05 +0000 Roots to Fruits https://rootstofruits.info/UMOJA Archival Textures Republishing: Umoja Zwarte Vrouwenkrant co-editor &amp; book design, 2024 <img width="922" height="1296" width_o="922" height_o="1296" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61bcf3b875f0bd49dfc443e9973db4f4f31a53d7e5fc8a5122f6fd207eff952c/UMOJA-COVER.jpg" data-mid="223481482" border="0" data-scale="79" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/922/i/61bcf3b875f0bd49dfc443e9973db4f4f31a53d7e5fc8a5122f6fd207eff952c/UMOJA-COVER.jpg" /> The book Republishing: Umoja Zwarte Vrouwenkrant makes a groundbreaking yet vastly unacknowledged grassroots magazine from Arnhem accessible as a source to enrich the still underexposed legacies of Black feminists in the Netherlands. It all started in December 1984, when Ans Sarianamual made a promise to Audre Lorde to start a magazine for Black women in the Netherlands. Together with a group of Black women organized as the foundation Zwarte Vrouwen &amp; Racisme in Arnhem, the first issue of Umoja Zwarte Vrouwenkrant was published only one month later. As aptly put in the editorial: “So much has already been written about us, which means our time was mostly spent on reacting to pieces written about us by white women. [...] Let’s now start speaking ourselves!” The magazine (1985–1986) was unique for its time because of its radically intersectional approach, and the establishment of “Black” as a political term in order to unite and strengthen all women who were labeled as “the Other” in the Netherlands and beyond. The magazine built on transnational friendships, featuring writings by and about Black women's groups in the U.S., England and South Africa. Besides writing on subjects such as racism, (employment) discrimination and decolonization, Umoja Zwarte Vrouwenkrant published poems, interviews with Dutch Black writers, event announcements and letter submissions in which Black women shared their experiences of racism and discrimination in the Netherlands. Umoja Zwarte Vrouwenkrant is a revolutionary magazine whose legacy has gotten no recognition. This book aims to bring about change here, and thereby historicize the complete set of magazines, contextualized through an introductory essay by Tamara Hartman and archival findings from Ans Sarianamual’s personal archive, edited by Mirelle van Tulder. Republishing these magazines also means to think of publications as low-threshold archives which help make Black feminist knowledges of the Netherlands accessible outside of archival institutions. www.archival-textures.com Distribution by KIOSK, Rotterdam https://rootstofruits.info/LE-SOLEIL Mon, 05 Jun 2023 14:26:57 +0000 Roots to Fruits https://rootstofruits.info/LE-SOLEIL LE SOLEIL Photobook, 2023 Launch: 12 May 2023, Offprint Londen, Tate Modern <img width="2149" height="3012" width_o="2149" height_o="3012" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e14f5b60f8a14a7a188d996d7697b3f9694d33471914773ddfc74786d6407e37/covern.jpg" data-mid="181036717" border="0" data-scale="77" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e14f5b60f8a14a7a188d996d7697b3f9694d33471914773ddfc74786d6407e37/covern.jpg" /> <img width="3744" height="4680" width_o="3744" height_o="4680" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/96ebde75223f99306ed309744be985cc9ea09dd6d459f0450ed02e06982fa533/IMG_8390.jpg" data-mid="181036902" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/96ebde75223f99306ed309744be985cc9ea09dd6d459f0450ed02e06982fa533/IMG_8390.jpg" /> <img width="3674" height="4592" width_o="3674" height_o="4592" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/996397c484916ba91588a75602d4ab9696f0698ec37dd25b028c833f968845ce/IMG_8349.jpg" data-mid="181036995" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/996397c484916ba91588a75602d4ab9696f0698ec37dd25b028c833f968845ce/IMG_8349.jpg" /> <img width="3674" height="4592" width_o="3674" height_o="4592" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cba59094e49562b30960b261ae0033c705ec13c8af2ac4699ca74fff33493e7c/IMG_8340.jpg" data-mid="181036990" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cba59094e49562b30960b261ae0033c705ec13c8af2ac4699ca74fff33493e7c/IMG_8340.jpg" /> <img width="3674" height="4592" width_o="3674" height_o="4592" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/861ff0996db9a42427c6b759f41788d970a3803ad343969c9cadb44d4e2caee8/IMG_8329.jpg" data-mid="181036980" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/861ff0996db9a42427c6b759f41788d970a3803ad343969c9cadb44d4e2caee8/IMG_8329.jpg" /> <img width="3426" height="4282" width_o="3426" height_o="4282" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/08c957c3dfe633fd4d9f778870d10a894a195fb00a193a8d17809d3a847c9fda/IMG_8313.jpg" data-mid="181036975" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/08c957c3dfe633fd4d9f778870d10a894a195fb00a193a8d17809d3a847c9fda/IMG_8313.jpg" /> Through a correspondence add in Jeune Afrique magazine, Ilse Cardoen connected with Elhadji Sall, and they started writing each other letters. In the summer of 1986 she visited Elhadji and his family in Quartier Kebe Der in Guediaway Dakar, Senegal.Ilse and her son Kwabena asked me to create a book from her personal archive. Delighted to work with this beautiful archive, I chose to use the semi-analog Riso printing technique to recapture the vivid memories present in the photographs. We sadly found out that Elhadji Sall passed away in July 2022. This book is a tribute to him and everyone who gave Ilse Cardoen the ‘Teranga’ of Senegal.&nbsp; LE SOLEIL 2023Ilse Cardoen Art direction, Editing, Design and Riso printing Mirelle van TulderA collaboration between: Kwabena Appiah-Nti &amp; Mirelle van Tulder Published by&nbsp;Roots to FruitsSize: 27 x 37 cm (48 pages) Print run: 100 AWARDS- Best Dutch Book Design 2023. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam- Zum Photo Book Festival 2023. Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo https://rootstofruits.info/Emergence-Magazine Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:52:35 +0000 Roots to Fruits https://rootstofruits.info/Emergence-Magazine Emergence Magazine Vol.&nbsp;5: Time Visual research, 2024 <img width="823" height="1081" width_o="823" height_o="1081" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e1d6c5620fbfc0125243724cb56564beeb44020af47eeba18d8c94cda4497004/time.jpg" data-mid="213305723" border="0" data-scale="60" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/823/i/e1d6c5620fbfc0125243724cb56564beeb44020af47eeba18d8c94cda4497004/time.jpg" /> <img width="3508" height="2548" width_o="3508" height_o="2548" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e04166cfbd19cc80af4a1ca0e0578c1c5e81d5dcd9c5ffb37ac594838a0107c1/Scan-33.jpeg" data-mid="213306377" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e04166cfbd19cc80af4a1ca0e0578c1c5e81d5dcd9c5ffb37ac594838a0107c1/Scan-33.jpeg" /> <img width="3508" height="2548" width_o="3508" height_o="2548" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bfc8f8f913d0d18217159d973ad981b4d66b7c90ab88e21094c84e2d7aa19312/time7.jpg" data-mid="213309516" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bfc8f8f913d0d18217159d973ad981b4d66b7c90ab88e21094c84e2d7aa19312/time7.jpg" /> <img width="3508" height="2548" width_o="3508" height_o="2548" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa7b487aa6bcf72416ec0fb0691a8913847045ba2aa01ba4e62677afe9365f96/time8.jpg" data-mid="213309517" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa7b487aa6bcf72416ec0fb0691a8913847045ba2aa01ba4e62677afe9365f96/time8.jpg" /> <img width="3508" height="2548" width_o="3508" height_o="2548" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d66f5d6f650d671358a59a881641e452dd4fc729ca6e85fdeab7efb7d6e52253/time9.jpg" data-mid="213309518" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d66f5d6f650d671358a59a881641e452dd4fc729ca6e85fdeab7efb7d6e52253/time9.jpg" /> <img width="3508" height="2548" width_o="3508" height_o="2548" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c52791083f26bb55dbc48987a11db191d3f1f63fd1a30475e7c1b7041cddaf23/time5.jpg" data-mid="213309514" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c52791083f26bb55dbc48987a11db191d3f1f63fd1a30475e7c1b7041cddaf23/time5.jpg" /> <img width="3508" height="2548" width_o="3508" height_o="2548" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1dae6c5523cd1e8023fd32a6c044c9426f5d136ad89a69fca3e95f66e66c702b/time6.jpg" data-mid="213309515" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1dae6c5523cd1e8023fd32a6c044c9426f5d136ad89a69fca3e95f66e66c702b/time6.jpg" /> <img width="3508" height="2548" width_o="3508" height_o="2548" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7fee8522d7fadadea0246a8511c827f0f69ce2a46c2c321631e02229ee853f53/time4.jpg" data-mid="213309513" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7fee8522d7fadadea0246a8511c827f0f69ce2a46c2c321631e02229ee853f53/time4.jpg" /> <img width="3508" height="2548" width_o="3508" height_o="2548" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26338e596e25a9e00fe304b24f85a8b05ba91e056431c6c936e9e9efaa43bdb1/time3.jpg" data-mid="213309512" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26338e596e25a9e00fe304b24f85a8b05ba91e056431c6c936e9e9efaa43bdb1/time3.jpg" /> <img width="3508" height="2548" width_o="3508" height_o="2548" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3cd08a1f644f956cd1aa29d92144464c03694bf032f9d2ff8164a01bc30459a3/time2.jpg" data-mid="213309611" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3cd08a1f644f956cd1aa29d92144464c03694bf032f9d2ff8164a01bc30459a3/time2.jpg" /> Emergence Magazine is an award-winning magazine that explores the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. Their work gathers voices—both human and more-than-human—with the potential to shift ways of thinking and being in relationship to the living world. The visual research explores Time through its many landscapes: deep time, geological time, kinship time, and ancestral time,&nbsp;with a focus on archival material.Emergence Magazine is based on the unceded ancestral lands of the Coast Miwok people of present-day Marin County, California. emergencemagazine.org https://rootstofruits.info/Being-Part-European-publication Mon, 07 Apr 2025 07:27:33 +0000 Roots to Fruits https://rootstofruits.info/Being-Part-European-publication Sam Simpson Being Part European March, 2025 <img width="1224" height="2035" width_o="1224" height_o="2035" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/50cfb8b269e66a417a0c8687be2c9fa6d3fa5841facfa99e23f04be917c6f286/being-part-european4.jpg" data-mid="231802020" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/50cfb8b269e66a417a0c8687be2c9fa6d3fa5841facfa99e23f04be917c6f286/being-part-european4.jpg" /> <img width="1234" height="2043" width_o="1234" height_o="2043" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9fc482b6c5bff284499068b89605886f951137f4d0c526c56f0789a453a2ed9d/being-part-european6.jpg" data-mid="231802022" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9fc482b6c5bff284499068b89605886f951137f4d0c526c56f0789a453a2ed9d/being-part-european6.jpg" /> <img width="2331" height="1725" width_o="2331" height_o="1725" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bae2776fc9bc8d15078f27641d589ecdfa2081cf0e4c26142712c55a43b50342/being-part-european10.jpg" data-mid="231802026" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bae2776fc9bc8d15078f27641d589ecdfa2081cf0e4c26142712c55a43b50342/being-part-european10.jpg" /> <img width="1230" height="2062" width_o="1230" height_o="2062" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c702b7cefea338e129bbe703ff515e1733e8bf3d7be6aa6bc857852b576beb4/being-part-european2.jpg" data-mid="231802018" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c702b7cefea338e129bbe703ff515e1733e8bf3d7be6aa6bc857852b576beb4/being-part-european2.jpg" /> <img width="1214" height="2024" width_o="1214" height_o="2024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4f02aa3443cb7c25213fb73afbfe72664c6340c291cdfa5e1c219e91e0731015/being-part-european.jpg" data-mid="229406280" border="0" data-scale="35" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4f02aa3443cb7c25213fb73afbfe72664c6340c291cdfa5e1c219e91e0731015/being-part-european.jpg" /> <img width="2315" height="1714" width_o="2315" height_o="1714" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66c6142d7e1d833bf34aedb12242db0d8c07bde123e89a90327f185a93ae7669/being-part-european11.jpg" data-mid="231802027" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66c6142d7e1d833bf34aedb12242db0d8c07bde123e89a90327f185a93ae7669/being-part-european11.jpg" /> <img width="2320" height="1719" width_o="2320" height_o="1719" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e7e817bdbd0bb0999f87d31d45d598768f8681c84d02a4cc6c4e66ad4b44671/being-part-european8.jpg" data-mid="231802024" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e7e817bdbd0bb0999f87d31d45d598768f8681c84d02a4cc6c4e66ad4b44671/being-part-european8.jpg" /> <img width="1235" height="2042" width_o="1235" height_o="2042" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f501edb824f74645d71fa44c12cc88f7d8365f95a481df0e440f21cc885b63dc/being-part-european5.jpg" data-mid="231802021" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f501edb824f74645d71fa44c12cc88f7d8365f95a481df0e440f21cc885b63dc/being-part-european5.jpg" /> <img width="1234" height="2045" width_o="1234" height_o="2045" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/275ef9433b018db3b960fab2a54db5406dabb830b92339854b9c376f7df2135c/being-part-european7.jpg" data-mid="231802023" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/275ef9433b018db3b960fab2a54db5406dabb830b92339854b9c376f7df2135c/being-part-european7.jpg" /> <img width="2327" height="1731" width_o="2327" height_o="1731" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8425c9170be637338bdea924b00ac0224749824e0f34384c9cd0781e83ec1547/being-part-european9.jpg" data-mid="231802025" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8425c9170be637338bdea924b00ac0224749824e0f34384c9cd0781e83ec1547/being-part-european9.jpg" /> <img width="1223" height="2043" width_o="1223" height_o="2043" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f247ccf667813a71cf1abaf7675e85a922a19581c02e20afb873255aafe34372/being-part-european3.jpg" data-mid="231802019" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f247ccf667813a71cf1abaf7675e85a922a19581c02e20afb873255aafe34372/being-part-european3.jpg" /> Booklet as supplement to the premiere of the film Being Part European at Page Not Found on March 26, 2025. “Nobody wants us. Nobody wants us. We came from nowhere.We belong to no one. We belong to nowhere. That is what they say. That is what I hear.That is what I hear being said. That is what they think. Around the Tanoa. Around the catalogue. In the museum stand, wherever I stand.” Written by Sam Simpson, 1974 Edited by Mirelle van Tulder, 202410 x 14.5 cm, 52 pages, 18 different covers. comes with plastic bag. Designed by Mirelle with thanks to Studio Airport https://rootstofruits.info/Being-Part-European-prints Sat, 30 Jul 2022 09:03:12 +0000 Roots to Fruits https://rootstofruits.info/Being-Part-European-prints Being Part European Poetic Intervention Foam Amsterdam, April 2023 <img width="800" height="1133" width_o="800" height_o="1133" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/23467baf042fbaead9d07ecf540ec58a628c81c582919d10d25d604db6dbb0b3/we-have-a-past.jpg" data-mid="149266531" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/23467baf042fbaead9d07ecf540ec58a628c81c582919d10d25d604db6dbb0b3/we-have-a-past.jpg" /> <img width="800" height="1130" width_o="800" height_o="1130" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/23e974f9c5ae847c001b3fa5550529e52514cd7bae551f40a0f4781a63dd0e7a/there-is-no-category.jpg" data-mid="149157998" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/23e974f9c5ae847c001b3fa5550529e52514cd7bae551f40a0f4781a63dd0e7a/there-is-no-category.jpg" /> <img width="800" height="1130" width_o="800" height_o="1130" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0c0a9d6099a11e7e940125c4bc4d66cd96346a4a183bd087ba928e80f66e05e/our-strenght.jpg" data-mid="149266532" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/f0c0a9d6099a11e7e940125c4bc4d66cd96346a4a183bd087ba928e80f66e05e/our-strenght.jpg" /> 20 Riso prints 42 x 59,4 cm (2013-2023) When the library of the KIT (Royal Tropical Institute) in Amsterdam closed in 2013, I was able to collect many catalogs and magazines that were about to be thrown away. I assembled a small library of my own that became source material for my work.&nbsp; In one of the magazines I found a poem titled “Being Part European,” written in 1974, by the Fijian poet Sam Simpson. I immediately felt a strong connection to the poem, and could relate it to my own feelings of displacement and senses of belongings; an artist whose life started in Fiji, but born in Aotearoa (1988), to a Brazilian mother and a Dutch father, growing up in a privileged Northern European context; The Netherlands. The magazines and catalogs I collected from the KIT became part over my ever-growing ‘ethnographic’ collection, of publications of private collections and institutional catalogs. Part of this ‘European upbringing’ (learning no ancestral knowledge whatsoever), resulted in the collecting of images that were constructed with an ethnographic-colonial European gaze that were used as a tool to advertise and categorize objects and people; a need to feed the European world’s cabinet of curiosities about distant and ‘primitive’ cultures. Catalogs were the only access I had to the ancestors. In the compositions of Being Part European, I've replaced the categorizing captions of photos and objects with sentences from the poem. By giving a voice to the objects and people depicted in the photographs, I question the traditional use of captions. What stories do these objects whisper to each other, across the gutters of the compositions and through the walls of the shelves? The compositions of photographs shot in their original contexts, to objects removed from their original location, floating in a vacuum of geometric levels of gray walls, emphasize the classification of "ethnographic”, previously imposed by the white man, rendering them inferior. The equalizing quality of the Riso prints reinforces the feeling that these images all seem the same, resulting in the loss of each of the images its value and identity. The displacement of the object thus becomes a way to talk about the displacement of the self. Featured in&nbsp;Foam Magazine #62: M/OTHERLANDS, September 2022.Riso prints are available at:Foam EditionsPoetic Intervention, Foam Amsterdam 20 April,&nbsp;2023.&nbsp;With an introduction by Wonu Veys, Curator Oceania at the Wereldmuseum (NL).