Positions: Afterlives x Ruben La Cruz & Karolien Helweg
Friday, April 12, 2024: 17:00 - 20:00 hrs
Location: Stroom, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Entrance: free
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During this event, Ruben La Cruz and Karolien Helweg present the program 'Zuchtbak'. It brings together various issues in the form of a communal dinner serving traditional dishes from Curaçao, videos showing images taken in the streets around Noordeinde Palace, and an interactive art installation where we can collectively 'sigh' for a moment.
Ruben La Cruz makes work that is politically engaged, exploring the effects of the colonial and slavery past in the present. In the 1980s and 1990s, he did performances on the streets. For example, he protested against the Gouden Koets (golden coach) during the 1990 Summer Carnival in Rotterdam, against apartheid in South Africa under the slogan "Love is making not killing," and he organized a symbolic funeral ceremony along the closed doors of art institutions in The Hague. In addition, La Cruz has been initiating projects and sculptures for more than 25 years, often resulting in monumental objects in public spaces where he subsequently gives workshops to children.
- Friday 12 Apr '24 17:00 hrs
- Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, Den Haag
- Entrance: free
photo: Kevin Domfeh Owusuaa
photo: Kevin Domfeh Owusuaa
photo: Kevin Domfeh Owusuaa
photo: Kevin Domfeh Owusuaa
photo: design: Mary Ponomareva
photo: courtesy the artist
photo: courtesy the artist