CATPC’s artworks are cathartic vessels that absorb the pain and evil of colonialism’s ongoing disaster while also acting as objects of hope and repair. Their art inspires the question: How can we forge more regenerative relationships between art, culture, economy, and ecology?
The aim of the College Tour is to formulate spaces of creative and critical dialogue between the indigenous artist-farmers of CATPC and art students. The tour will provide students insight into the extraordinary challenges that colonialism has posed in Lusanga, DRC, while the Western art world has continued to benefit from their dispossession. Together, they will think about how the Dutch art world can decolonize not only themselves, but also plantations, and how artists can become active agents in facilitating regenerative change and collaboration.
"If museums aren’t doing this crucial work, someone else will."
– Min Chen, Jing Culture & Crypto
On 12 September 2024, CATPC made their first stop of the College Tour at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, a multi-disciplinary post-academy. In December 2024, CATPC members Mbuku Kimpala, Matthieu Kasiama and Ced'art Tamasala will visit the Minerva Art Academy in Groningen and the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. They will discuss the presentation at the Venice Biennale and the upcoming show at the Van Abbemuseum.
If you would CATPC to visit your town/school and learn how to get back land and art, send an email to janke@humanactivities.org.
The College Tour is part of the White Cube museum programme, which opens the dialogue on decolonization between CATPC and Dutch institutions, many of which have been funded with profits from plantations, and focuses on creating equal knowledge exchanges to decolonize the place where it is most needed: the plantation. The programme is supported by the Mondriaan Fund.
