02/06/2026
Nicole Beutler Projects, Mapping Colonial History & Bau warmly invite you to the summer academy WE LIVE HERE: rooting, taking place from 6 – 10 July in Amsterdam.
If you are interested in taking part, please send an email to: [email protected]. We ask all participants to contribute €280,- excl. VAT to cover the full 5-day-program, including daily delicious vegan meals and a visit to a selected performance at Julidans Festival. Should you not be able to cover the contribution, please contact us, so we can try to find a solution.
Sithabile Mlotshwa (Zimbabwe, 1975) is a transdisciplinary artist, researcher, filmmaker, and cultural producer, based in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Born into a land already living inside the long aftermath of colonial violence, she has spent 25 years making that violence visible — and making healing possible. Her research-based practice, rooted in a transdisciplinary approach, moves through art in the form of large-scale installations, two-dimensional works, sculptures, objects, film, sound, writings, and reparatory work — always toward the same horizon: the truth of what colonialism did, is doing, and what healing requires.
Mapping Colonial History (MCH) is a global initiative examining how colonialism shapes all dimensions of existence — bodies, minds, ecosystems, knowledge, time. Not as history, but as something that is happening now, continuously reproducing itself while erasing its own operations and the alternatives. MCH is a trans-disciplinary, cross continental and cross-cultural project healing the world through culture.
