Critical Studies
Jeanine van Berkel+
Jeanine van Berkel is a graphic designer, visual researcher and writer. She is interested in what way her multi-ethnic body relates to the bigger colonial structures – especially focusing on the relationship between Curacao and the Netherlands. In her ongoing research and story through the semi-forgotten memory of herself and (un)known history of her various motherlands, she explores urgent questions, looks for answers and shapes what silence looks like.
The performance and installation works through the concept of ghosts and haunting in combination with previous ideas about the relationship between Curacao and The Netherlands together with personal forgotten history.
“Haunting lies precisely in its refusal to stop.” (Quote, Eve Tuck) I can’t stop re-shaping this question of the past, because it shapes my present. In a way, I’m the ghost that is haunting myself.
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