The purpose of this website is to make accessible the material regarding Oude Ker k for study and to show the artistic processes, the exhibition-making, the 136 artistic interventions since 2013, the 253 objects in the church, the 2282 graves underneath about 60.000 people have been buried, the church itself, the neighborhood, and the relations between them. Thus, creating new layers of meaning.
The Open Archive is created for everyone, so whether you’re a student, an academic, or someone with an interest in the Oude Kerk, please feel free to roam around. Not sure where to start? Take a look at the suggestions we offer or some of the inspiration!
The Oude Kerk is a place where various visions of the world come together; both in the past and present. When acknowledging these different perspectives on the world, one has to reckon with multiple accounts of the same historical events. For this reason, we believe history is not objective, or set in stone, and using the plural 'histories' acknowledges these complex accounts of ‘history’. Part of this idea is the objective to bring ‘contested’ histories back into the public consciousness.
Collectively Shaping A New Open Archive.
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