For the film room We Cannot Skip This Part, curator Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide has put together a film programme. There are different seating areas in the room. The films are shown there. They are translated into different languages: German, English, simple language, sign language, audio description and Braille. [Audio description is needed by blind people. It is described for them: What are you seeing in the film right now? Braille is a script for blind people. You can feel it with your fingers and read it that way].

The title of the programme is derived from the names of the people in each video. The videos are about conversation, speech and song. The videos explore: What do the characters experience in everyday life? Are they ordinary experiences? And how do the people deal with the experiences? All three videos together focus on the knowledge of the persons shown about a whole life. They show: These people want to deal with the environment in a just way. The sequence of the videos follows the age of the people shown.

Click here for the full description of the film programme: filmprogramm_cecilia-onome-kunbi-soni-and-candy.pdf

Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide (NL) is exhibition curator at the Van Abbemuseum. Previously, she was associate director at Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, where she started as an intern in 2008. She is interested in various intersecting perspectives and modes that decenter the oppressor in practices of freedom and liberation and influence the institutional practice of art. She is co-editor of several books, including Unlearning Exercises: Art Organizations as Sites for Unlearning (Casco Art Institute, Valiz, 2018); Laure Prouvost, This Means Love (Lisson Gallery, Van Abbemuseum, 2021).