The Africamuseum in Tervuren re-opened its doors a year ago. Renovation of the buildings and re-thinking the controversial colonial history of both the museum and the collection took many years.
A.Kult.E vzw is a platform for arts, culture and education. ‘WORD WA(a)R’ is one of their projects, bringing humoristic, but critical ‘battle theater’ performances.
‘Spoken word’ artists engage in battles with topics such as: ‘Vegan versus meat industry’, ‘Jesus versus Hitler’, Belgium versus the Netherlands’, … or in this case ‘King Filip versus King Leopold II’. King Filip announces he wants to remove all statues of King Leopold II from the streets. But one of the statues reacts …
Looking for a historical significant place to perform and film their battle, A.Kult.E reacted to our Belgian co-creation call. This was the start of a collaboration with the Africamuseum.
In the first part of this video , Seckou and Pieter of A.Kult.E and Primrose of Africamuseum talk about their collaboration and about the place of intangible heritage in museums. In the second part of the video, the performance, you get to know the answer King Leopold II gave to the current King Filip, when he finally visited the museum and declared all statues of his ancestor should be removed.