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SAT | 28 SEPT | 6PM
BoxJelly
at Ward Centre
1200 Ala Moana Blvd • 2nd Floor
Free parking, entrance off of Auahi Street 

Free and open to the public.

🌟 Join us for a special screening of Hier. (2021) by visiting HT25 artist wendelien van oldenborgh, followed by a conversation between the artist and fellow HT25 artist Sung Hwan Kim, who lives in Honolulu and has known van oldenborgh for more than a decade. van oldenborgh, from the Netherlands and currently living in Berlin, instigates situations such as film shoots in which non-actors of diverse subjectivities come together in the polyphonic exchanges of their verbal and nonverbal expressions. Situated in [post]colonial conditions — the politics of identity, migration, and transnationalism — these film shoots often take place in architectural environments of significance.

Hier. is set in a museum during a renovation, where we meet a cast of young women who express themselves through music, poetry, and dialogue. They explore themes such as hybridity, transnationality, and diasporic sensitivities facing the political instrumentalization of identity and cultural renewal in the midst of persistent reverberations of colonial history in contemporary society.

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wendelien van oldenborgh is visiting Hawaiʻi in preparation for her participation in Hawaiʻi Triennial 2025 (HT25), 15 Feb – 04 May. 🙏🏼 Mahalo nui, BoxJelly, for co-hosting this talk with us. 📸 wendelien van oldenborgh, Hier., 2021, 27 mins, Dutch with English subtitles. Production still by Jakub Danilewicz. // Portrait of wendelien van oldenborgh. Photo: Jakub Danilewicz. // Portrait of Sung Hwan Kim. Photo: Jordan Weitzman.