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Historical Children
How do we envision the future of a society that struggles to decolonize itself? How will the past be remembered, the present understood? How can we nurture the aspirations and imaginations of the present and upcoming generations for a desired future?
SAVVY Contemporary鈥檚 yearlong TRANSITIONS programme takes colonial heritage and decolonisation as facts and points us towards practices of transition. The fourth exhibition and the last segment is HISTORICAL CHILDREN: LULLABIES FROM WOUNDS TO WONDER which takes a cue from the agency of children and the youth in imagining the afterlife of decolonization.
The project is a collaboration with children and youth initiatives. We think and work together by questioning and complicating the western notion of childhood and recognizing it as a position of privilege. By witnessing and experiencing the complexity of this notion in varying degrees of adulthood and mothering, we acknowledge how each is dictated by racial and social hierarchies and familial traumas and how fear and self-censorship are inculcated. This collaboration is an attempt at activating capacities of the imagination and agencies of a young mind in the absence of inhibitions, where it can continue to freely respond and react to stimulus and be equipped with multiple forms of expression.
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How do we envision the future of a society that struggles to decolonize itself? How will the past be remembered, the present understood? How can we nurture the aspirations and imaginations of the present and upcoming generations for a desired future?
SAVVY Contemporary鈥檚 yearlong TRANSITIONS programme takes colonial heritage and decolonisation as facts and points us towards practices of transition. The fourth exhibition and the last segment is HISTORICAL CHILDREN: LULLABIES FROM WOUNDS TO WONDER which takes a cue from the agency of children and the youth in imagining the afterlife of decolonization.
The project is a collaboration with children and youth initiatives. We think and work together by questioning and complicating the western notion of childhood and recognizing it as a position of privilege. By witnessing and experiencing the complexity of this notion in varying degrees of adulthood and mothering, we acknowledge how each is dictated by racial and social hierarchies and familial traumas and how fear and self-censorship are inculcated. This collaboration is an attempt at activating capacities of the imagination and agencies of a young mind in the absence of inhibitions, where it can continue to freely respond and react to stimulus and be equipped with multiple forms of expression.
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