What Knots Knot Knots — Groningen

The light is not light enough

As part of WKKK, Noorderlicht has invited eight artists for short residencies in Groningen, Drenthe and Friesland. During the artist panel Het licht is niet licht genoeg (The light is not light enough), they will present and interrogate the work they developed during that period. The panel brings the three regions together and makes the interconnections between the research threads visible.

The artists work from specific local contexts, but their research touches on shared historical and contemporary questions: colonial archives and their gaps, knowledge production and power, migration, energy and ecological exhaustion. In Groningen, Yeb Wiersma and Ofri Cnaani explored the urban, ecological and academic infrastructures where these histories converge. In Friesland, Thato Toeba and Cihad Caner explored maritime and colonial networks and their reverberations in the Frisian landscape and archive, in collaboration with institutions such as Tresoar and the Historisch Centrum Leeuwarden. In Drenthe, Ana Guedes and Koos Breukel connected colonial histories with the Moluccan community history of the region.