24 March 21, 6 pm

in English

The screening and talk will take place via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1rXsoV3RQ-OHbCwGyykKoA

In White Cube, a new feature-length documentary film by Renzo Martens, Congolese plantation workers set a new precedent. They successfully co-opt the concept of the ‘white cube’ to buy back their land from international plantation companies, and secure it for future generations.
 
White Cube follows the Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATPC), a plantation workers’ cooperative based on a former Unilever plantation in Lusanga, Democratic Republic of Congo. The film documents CATPC’s success in ending the destructive system of monoculture on their lands.
 
“Land or art. If I would have to choose, I would choose both. But if I really have to choose only one, I would choose the land. Where can I put my chair and start making art, if I do not own the land?”
Matthieu Kasiama, CATPC.
 
On the occasion of the launch of White Cube, KW presents an online screening of the film followed by a talk between Renzo Martens, Clémentine Deliss and Tirdad Zolghadr.
 
Renzo Martens studied political science and fine arts. His films Episode I and Episode III: Enjoy Poverty have brought him worldwide recognition and have been shown at numerous museums and biennials, such as the Centre Pompidou and the Tate Modern. In 2012, Martens founded the Institute for Human Activities (IHA) with its Reversed Gentrification Program. Since 2014, the IHA collaborates with the Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATPC), a plantation workers’ cooperative based on a former Unilever plantation in Lusanga, Democratic Republic of Congo.
 
Clémentine Deliss is Associate Curator at KW Institute for Contemporary Art. Her book The Metabolic Museum was recently published by Hatje Cantz in co-production with KW.
 
Tirdad Zolghadr is a former Associate Curator at KW Institute for Contemporary Art.