Research
Exercises
De Horst 39
The primary school which I got educated on, was in a Dutch cosy small town, named "Achterberg". It's a traditional farmers village. Often I played their soccer with my friends on a big grass field. Once when I was eight years old, I walked with Evan, a friend of mine, in his neighbourhood. He stopped, and pointed to a house on our left side, De Horst 39. "A heathen lives here" said Evan. We walked by and played soccer on the grass field. I thought it was normal that there lived a heathen, but it wasn't. Later in the afternoon my mother picked me up and drove back to our town. A city where more heathen than Christians live.
*Birds In Captivity*
In September I walked in Rotterdam in a random street. I heard a strange bird sound, I stopped and looked for the bird. In an open window there was the bird in a cage. Mostly a bird travels on about 50 km per day, this cage wasn't even a meter in his length. In the video you can see the bird for 4 seconds, that's the space that a bird can fly back and forth per day. The sound heard as a begging for freedom. The bird was almost there, only the iron bars made the bird feel like a pet. Isn't it strange that we keep birds as pets?
Is this Chinese food? is it?
A lot of Dutch people would agree with me that they love the Chinese kitchen, wouldn't you? Only we know the Dutch Chinese kitchen, it's glocalized. In China they don't eat Peking Eend, Foe Yong Hi or Babi Pangang in a way we do. Is that a bad thing? Or is this also way of colonisation the kitchen?
Which one do you prefer?
Wil je mij ook strelen?
While doing my research, I watched "Pete en de bananen". Pete is a homosexual Chinese man whose born in The Netherlands, through his documentary he talks with different Dutch people (with a Chinese background) about race, discrimination, misunderstanding and self image. In a talk with Kelly whose an adopted Chinese, is telling that she used her Chinese looks as a fetish, while she was working as a Phone Sex Operator. From the point she was telling that she used her looks as fetish, I was like, why are Chinese people used as fetish material?
Watch the documentary: Pete en de bananen
Literature
Thoughts
Make tools for parents to talk about racism
Look towards > make it a positive subject to talk about
Different discussions in the Netherlands
Visible research
Dilimite it more to your story
And identify research problem more clearly?
Why does white men identify with other white men in movies? > Gloria Wekker "White Listening" (2016)
Geographic the Netherlands on racism > Charissa Granger
What are the discussions out of those discussions?
What it means to be an alley
Different views where is it coming from?
How do you further define this > Charissa Granger
Geschiedenis kunnen we niet terugkeren, maar we kunnen het wel juist vertellen. Dus onderzoek alles en vertel de juiste waarheid. Interessante gedachte.
Literature, articles, books, blogs
How white people can talk to each other about disrupting racism // how to talk about this topic with your closest friends and family members: https://www.dosomething.org/us/articles/how-white-people-can-talk-to-each-other-about-disrupting-racism
Adwoha Aboah’s conversation about BLM: https://www.vogue.co.uk/news/article/adwoa-aboah-janaya-khan-black-lives-matter
Janaya Future Khan’s guid to understanding white privilege: https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/janaya-future-
Anousha Nzume // Hallo witte mensen: https://www.bruna.nl/boeken/hallo-witte-mensen-9789462984141
White like me - Tim Wise: https://www.bol.com/nl/f/white-like-me/30446822/
Documentary
Een post-racistische wereld docu: https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/tegenlicht/kijk/afleveringen/2019-2020/post-racistische-planeet.html
Sunny Bergman wit is ook een kleur: https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/2doc/kijk/2doc-overzicht/2016/wit-is-ook-een-kleur.html
Adwoha Aboah’s conversation about BLM: https://www.vogue.co.uk/news/article/adwoa-aboah-janaya-khan-black-lives-matter
Janaya Future Khan’s guid to understanding white privilege: https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/janaya-future-
Joris Postema // Stop watching us: https://www.2doc.nl/documentaires/series/2doc/2020/Stop-Filming-Us.html#
Interesting links
https://www.instagram.com/deinstantpedagoog/
https://www.brap.org.uk/pushingtheboundaries
https://www.theschooloflife.com/amsterdam/
Quotes
This article: https://medium.com/awaken-blog/allyship-vs-accomplice-the-what-why-and-how-f3da767d48cc
“No one needs to be saved, we just need to share our access and privileges to level the playing field.”
This presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XnmmTJt4yZx5Rs5NFQ03puq80YkLhgrV/view
“Racism cannot be reduced to (other) white grievances or, on the other end, that anti-racism might actually reify white pride by displacing the emotional labor onto non-whites;”
Subtopics
- Why is there still so much/growing racism on third generation of immigrants in The Netherlands?
https://www.intermediair.nl/emancipatie-en-diversiteit/racisme/kinderen-van-arbeidsmigranten-integreren-goed-maar-blijven-gediscrimineerd-worden?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
- Is AI racist? And how do we unclear this?
- Is AI a problem for our society?
Source: Children notice race
Videos
Source: A kids play about racism
Source: The Post-Racistic Planet (Documentary)
^ If we talk about racism in The Netherlands ^
Designer projects
Source: A kids Book about Racism
Source: Complex/ion
Source: Jouw... Tableware, DeZeen
Interesting thoughts of the enquête
Prototypes and behind the scenes
Some notes during the process of my project
First I tried with a glue gun on cutlery with, later in Ceramics Station with transparent epoxy, I will try another one with food safe epoxy. In Metal Station I transformed the fork, knife and spoon (with copper).
At home I clayed a prototype in a bowl and on a plate. In Ceramics Station I clayed another prototype, made five malls and will proceed on the malls to pour clay in the malls, stick it together and glaze them.
At home I built up my own studio to photograph and to film my objects.
