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30 May: debate The View on Self / Blak on Blak presentation

In collaboration with the Australian art magazine Artlink the AAMU presents a new debate in the Framer Framed Series. Artlink recently published a special edition entitled Blak on Blak in which Aboriginal writers comment on Aboriginal art. The presentation of this special edition is the reason to make a comparison with the Suriname-Dutch art project Wakaman in which artists explore their own cultural background and ethnic identity.

After the debate the European presentation of Blak on Blak will take place.

Speaking during this debate will be:
Dr Margo Neale, Senior Research Fellow of the National Museum of Australia and Principal Advisor to the Director on Indigenous matters. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Australian National University Centre for Indigenous History.
Gordon Hookey is an artist and a PhD student at the Queensland College of Art in Queensland, Australia
Daniel Browning is the guest editor of Blak on Blak
Gillion Grantsaan is an artist and co-founder of the Wakaman project
Marcel Pinas is an artist. He was born and still lives in Suriname, South America.

Chair to the forum is Nancy Jouwe of Kosmopolis Utrecht.

The debate starts at: 2 p.m.
Admission: free
The debate will be conducted in English
It is necessary to reserve your seat via info@aamu.nl

Radio broadcast on Blak on Blak: www.abc.net.au/rn/artworks/stories/2010/2861437.htm

Framer Framed is supported by the Mondriaan Foundation, Fonds BKVB and the Hivos-NCDO Cultuurfonds. For more information go to: http://framerframed.nl This debate is also supported by the National Museum of Australia.

Framer Framed is an initiative of:
Debate centre Tumult, Centraal Museum Utrecht, the Tropenmuseum Amsterdam, Kosmopolis Utrecht, Afrika Museum Berg en Dal, Museum Maluku, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal Leiden and the AAMU Museum of contemporary Aboriginal art in the Netherlands.