Projects


The artworks below are projects that represent several series of bodies of works. They are introductions to a Visual Map and Chapters of the projects, per country. All Chapters are realised and developed as ongoing projects under the artistic research project In Search of Ubuntu - Legacies of Imperial Projects, re-Remembering & re-Thinking “Empire” in relation to “Civilisation” the West and the Rest. https://sithabileinfryslan.wordpress.com





Heren XVII | VOC – Kamer Amsterdam,Rethinking Coen’s Vision Part 1



Empire Builders from the Chapter  – Dutch Colonization of Indonesia


Founding Fathers of Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade from the Chapter  – The Portuguese Museum of Colonialism.


The French Museum of Colonialism


The Belgium Museum of Colonialism


Inter caetera – Rethinking Cartography and Papal bulls, from the Chapter –  The Spanish Museum of colonialism


Insatiable – from the Chapter – Colonial Complicity,
Luxembourgers and the Belgian Congo



Common Wealth from the Chapter – the British Museum of Colonialism


Echos of Herero and Namaqua ancestors, from the Chapter – The German Museum of Colonialism


The study of others – from the Chapter -Of curiosity and the invention of the savage


Of Subjects/Objects and Viewers, Colonising Black Female Bodies in the Chapter – “Tools of the Empire”reflections on representation and power in the production, re-production, and maintenance of European colonial forms of knowledge.


Role Models from the Chapter - Human ZOOs

Foundations of Civilisation from the Chapter – TradeEchos of Ota Benga form the Chapter  – The Hidden History of Scientific Racism


Moulding the world in our image from the Chapter – Residencial Schools


The Dutch Golden Age


Cash Cows from the Chapter – Commodification of “Black” Bodies


Rethinking the hidden history of Slave Breeding Farms




Pillars of the Empire and Delicate Flowers 



Empire Builders from the Chapter  – Dutch Colonization of South Africa


Echos of British Rhodesia from the Chapter – Of Colonialists, Businessman, Thugs and Politicians


Weapon of Choice from the Chapter: The citizen as consumer, facilitator and enabler of the reproduction of violence


The Coach will ride again when the Dutch Society is ready



The international Arm of the Dutch Republic from the Chapter – 17th Century Institutional innovations


Insatiable - from the Chapter - A Culture Thing


Surinamensium Part 1 – Rethinking the gaze of Maria Sibylla Merian


Shark island – from the Chapter – Reflections on the Reproduction of Violence, Concentration Camps and Genocide


Retracing the History of Slavery and colonialism in Amsterdam 



Footsteps of Change


The Burst of Orson Welles


A Truly Dutch Creation, The Citizen as Investor and Stakeholder.



Warning! Over Consumption of God is Toxic, from the Chapter – Traditions that Matter


The Primitive State of Ernest Noirot – from the Chapter – The artist as accomplice



We all need to eat from the Chapter: 21st century Cash Cows





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