facade suspended
text Roeland Muskens
- Author(s)
- Roeland Muskens
- Publication, year
- The Hague : Dürst Britt & Mayhew, 2018
- Scope
- 24 Pages, illustrated, 27 cm.
facade suspended sheds light on RARA, the Revolutionary Anti-Racist Action. During the 1980s and 1990s, this resistance collective fought against racism, oppression and exploitation, the ongoing legacy of Dutch imperialist history. The two works on show are the first in a series in which I, in close consultation with RARA, both document and elaborate on this unprecedented case of post-war resistance. Point of departure for this exhibition is Overtoom 274, a house in Amsterdam that played a pivotal role in the exposure of RARA. facade suspended focuses on a police raid on the premises that took place in 1988, as well as on the facade itself, which is not only linked to RARA, but also has its own distinctive material connection to the Dutch colonial past.
- Person as subject
- Pieter Paul Pothoven, RARA
- Location
- Cabinet 29 - 5: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; decolonisatie
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