Festive Closing Weekend Arus Balik–Shifting CurrentsFestive Closing Weekend Arus Balik–Shifting Currents

The programme includes artist Dicky Takndare’s Ruang Tame Takeover: From bale-bale to para-para, as well as the Ruang Tamu Harvest Festival & Bazaar and the celebratory conclusion of the Collecting Otherwise project and a presentation on its afterlife. There are also screenings of Kind Van De Tijd in collaboration with the Indonesian Diaspora Network and and the book launch of Tuning In: Darimana?. Makers show their work-in-progress documentaries as part of To Be Continued, a collaboration with the WYSIWYG cinema platform and Indonesian art platform Indeks, followed by a discussion with practitioners and the audience.

To extend the second life of traces and creative encounters in the GUD Instituut Living room, Harvest Festival Bazaar will celebrate the reflection of collaboration, connection and learning process from the whole program. The bazaar is designed beyond a marketplace—it’s a space for exchanging stories, experiences and tacit wisdom through interactive activities. Alongside artworks, art prints, second-hand treasures from the living room and curated artist merchandise, the bazaar also includes activities and services that embody everyday practice intelligence. With participants from the Netherlands and Indonesia-based artists and collectives (to be announced), plus delicious food, drinks, live music, and captivating performances, the bazaar offers a lively celebration of art, community, and shared discovery.

Author Tineke E. Jansen and editors Tamara Hartman and Tabea Nixdorff read from the book Tuning In: Darimana?, a record of the voices of Indonesian-Chinese women in the Netherlands of the 1950s and 60s. The fourth title in the publication series Archival Textures, Tuning In: Darimana? is based on 70 tapes of Indonesian-Chinese women’s voices made by Tineke E. Jansen between 1980 and 1995 in Jakarta, Indonesia. The women talk about migrating to the Netherlands in the 1950s and 60s, including their experiences of racism. How do we understand these stories today? Readings from the book are combined with discussions, an excerpt from a 1994 film about the experiences of migrant women, and a ritual of returning the recorded stories to their tellers. The book launch requires a separate registration, RSVP here.

Saturday 1 February

• 11:00 - 19:00 (all day) | Ruang Tamu Harvest Festival & Bazaar
• 14:00 - 17:00 | Book launch: Tuning In: Darimana? (separate RSVP here)
• 19:00 - 21:30 | Screening Kind Van De Tijd with Indonesian Diaspora Network. In the documentary Kind Van De Tijd (2024), director Huibert van Wijk explores the family history between his adopted, Indonesian brother Tim and father Lex, in the 1970s. Whose interests are served in international adoption? The film sketches out the complexities and contrasting perspectives that are embedded in the intentions and consequences of adoption.
• 22:00 - 23:00 | Drinks & karaoke in the GUD Instituut Living Room

Sunday 2 February

• 11:00 - 19:00 (all day) | Ruang Tamu Harvest Festival & Bazaar
• 12:00 - 14:00 | Talk “Lumbung, Commons and Lumbung, Commons and Community Art". documenta fifteen was a large-scale collective experiment in creating a commons using the art system. How did its lumbung community experience it? What went wrong, and what can we take away from it? Departing from a radio conversation, Simon Kentgens and Florian Cramer ruminate on their experiences as peripheral participants in documenta fifteen.
• 14:00 - 18:00 | with WYSIWYG and Indeks. invites film-making artists and enthusiasts to share, reflect, and receive feedback on unfinished film projects. In an intimate setting, the exchange of perspectives can feed back into ideas, projects and practices.
• 18:00 - 1830 | Collecting Otherwise Closing moment. We’re excited to share that Collecting Otherwise will transition in 2025 from a project to a Research Theme line, with several independent spin-offs. Collecting Otherwise concludes its 4-year run as project with a celebratory moment - looking back and reconnecting with past initiatives.
• 18:30 - 20:00 | Drinks & karaoke in the GUD Instituut Living Room

Nieuwe Instituut, Museum Het Schip and Gudskul initiated the four-month programme Arus Balik – Shifting Currents in September 2024. This project aimed to bring together the architecture and design networks linking Indonesia, the Netherlands and their diasporas, recognising architecture and design as material witnesses to colonial histories and pathways to a possible shared present and future. Supported by DutchCulture, the Prince Claus Fund, Mondriaan Fund, the Marinus Plantema Foundation, Museum Arsitektur Indonesia, Berlage di Nusantara and others.

Based on the architecture collection managed by the Nieuwe Instituut, Collecting Otherwise explores the possibilities of an alternative architectural, heritage and archival practice that reflects a society in constant flux. After the previous editions Seen/Unseen (2021), Post/De/Colonial (2022) and The Tool Shed (2023), 2024 was once again dedicated to the Tool Shed – the resources that can help to develop new ways of acquiring, classifying and exhibiting heritage. From 2025, Collecting Otherwise lives on as a Research theme and catalyst for many spin-offs.