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![Defining Divinity]( "Defining Divinity")
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![The Bricks Keep the Record]( "The Bricks Keep the Record")
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![The Bricks Keep the Record]( "The Bricks Keep the Record")
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![The Bricks Keep the Record]( "The Bricks Keep the Record")
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![Untitled performance]( "Untitled performance")
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![Untitled performance]( "Untitled performance")
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![Untitled performance]( "Untitled performance")
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![How Would You Like to Get Lampooned, My Lord?]( "How Would You Like to Get Lampooned, My Lord?")
infoPublication in collaboration with the National Library of the Netherlands
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![How Would You Like to Get Lampooned, My Lord?]( "How Would You Like to Get Lampooned, My Lord?")
infoPublication in collaboration with the National Library of the Netherlands
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![Srebrenica is gevallen]( "Srebrenica is gevallen")
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![Srebrenica is gevallen]( "Srebrenica is gevallen")
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Tuning into Researchinfo
Interview by the Design Lectorate of the Royal Academy of Art The Hague about The Bricks Keep the Record.
Lisette Alberti is an artist-researcher investigating violence and the political conditions of its alleviation.
My practice investigates institutional and direct violence, collective memory, and justice. Through my background in International Relations and journalism, I make interdisciplinary work merging theory and practice, building on political philosophy and abolitionism to deconstruct existing ideas of violence and justice. This deconstruction creates space for conceptions of violence that decentre hegemonic power.
I often work with archive material, thereby investigating the archive as a political institution which shapes histories of violence and processes of justice. My work uncovers how the archive is not an objective preserver, but rather a political tool that creates and legitimises the terms through which we recognize violence.
In my work and life, I feel dedicated to the continuous reflection on how we relate to each other and each other’s understanding of violence, as I believe this is in paramount in preventing and addressing harm, and creating systems of justice that actually serve people and do not further perpetuate violence.
Websites
Curriculum vitae
Education
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2021 - 2023Non Linear Narrative Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten diploma
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2018 - 2019MA Art and Politics Goldsmiths, University of London diploma
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2014 - 2017Liberal Arts and Sciences Universiteit Leiden diploma
exhibitions
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2023Outside Through Within Royal Academy of Art The Hague The Hague, Netherlands Graduation show of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague graduation.kabk.nl/2023/lisette-alberti Group
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2023Tech Week Quartair The Hague, Netherlands By manipulating the clay, the screen shows the body’s interaction with the material - transforming the physical into the digital. This installation featured a performance in collaboration with Shouyi He. Group
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2022How Would You Like to Get Lampooned, My Lord Page Not Found The Hague, Netherlands The Master Non Linear Narrative collaborated with KB, the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague, to scrutinise the book as a publishing platform and create new, compelling narratives that link the alba amicorum (friendship books) to immediate issues affecting us today. page-not-found.nl/2022/11/02/how-would-you-like-to-get-lampooned-my-lord-book-launch-by-the-master-non-linear-narrative/ Group
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2022Breaking News Royal Academy of Art The Hague The Hague, Netherlands In its most honest state, news media is a tool to empower and inform. It exposes the audience to current-affairs and in turn can unveil the current-affairs to the public. But this system is not without its flaws. It often happens the news lacks the perspectives of marginalised groups or is used as a mouthpiece for the dominant political powers. For these reasons we must look critically at how news is reported. For this exhibition 10 students of the Master Non Linear Narrative chose a particular news event to dissect and reframe. www.instagram.com/p/Cd20LM9L0mC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D&img_index=5 Group
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2019Works in Transit Goldsmiths, University of London London, United Kingdom Group show as a part of the Master Art and Politics showcasing group and individual work. Group
Projects
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2024
Defining Divinity The Netherlands and Taiwan, Netherlands Defying Divinity is a collaborative project with Rising Lai focussing on Dutch East India Company (VOC) personnel who were deified into the Taoist divine system - their legends passed down from generation to generation. Nowadays, there are Taoist temples that worship deified Dutch VOC-ers as gods and goddesses - showing their portraits on altars. Their religious stories are the result of the shared memories of the region’s residents. Although the archive shows hints of the stories’ origins, most of the stories have morphed into history and fiction - creating a new folkloric telling of these VOC gods altogether. The deification of VOC-ers in Taiwan is an unexpected and little-known phenomenon in The Netherlands, and thereby presents an underexplored relic of the VOC. The dissonance between the expected regard of VOC-ers in Taiwan and their actual status as deities provides us with an interesting area of tension, and thereby, research. This project aims to center the local, contemporary Taiwanese perspective, while allowing for the initially uncomfortable idea of a VOC-god. Focussing on VOC deities we, of course, do not intend to glorify the vicious VOC history; instead, we attempt to complicate the dominant Dutch VOC-narrative by accepting and curiously investigating Taiwanese lived realities and (hi)stories.
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2023
The Bricks Keep the Record The Hague, Netherlands graduation.kabk.nl/2023/lisette-alberti The Bricks Keep The Record is a multimedia installation focusing on a building in The Hague, The International City of Peace & Justice, which has served as a prison under different political and ideological circumstances since its establishment. It has been utilized as a prison by the Nazis during the Second World War, and is currently still used as a prison by the Dutch government and as a detention facility by the International Criminal Court. The installation, consisting of a soundscape, collage and bricks, focuses on the physicality of the building itself as a witness. The historic building observes the comings and goings of those who pass through it in ever-changing roles of incarcerated and incarcerator – a metaphorical archive of experiences. Exploring the interplay between the prison's physicality and the stories it silently holds, the work prompts contemplation on the use of incarceration as a tool to serve justice, and the ideological and political conditions that shape the understanding of criminality. As an enduring entity, the building bears witness to the evolving narratives of justice, criminality and human resilience within its walls.
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2023
Untitled Performance Quartair (NL) The Hague, Netherlands Installation featuring a performance in collaboration with Shouyi He. By manipulating the clay, the screens show the body’s interaction with the material - transforming the physical into the digital.
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2022
Srebrenica is gevallen The Hague, Netherlands This installation investigates the reporting in De Volkskrant about the genocide in Srebrenica from July 11 1995, the day of the genocide, until the Dayton Peace Agreements were signed on December 14, 1995. Through the continued isolation of the articles mentioning the word “Srebrenica” on the left page, the work emphasizes the literal space this news was granted in the newspaper. Through this visual intervention in the archive it becomes clear that news reporting – even that of a genocide – only exists in relation to other current affairs, and that its importance emerges through the passage of time.
Publications
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2022How Would You Like to Get Lampooned, My Lord Book Non Linear Narrative The Hague, Netherlands www.kabk.nl/projecten/nln-kb-open-digital-libraries The publication “How Would You Like To Get Lampooned, My Lord?” brings together the voices of 10 young designers covering topics like privilege, gender discrimination, colonialism and institutional archiving practices. The book is the result of an eduacational research collaboration between the Master Non Linear Narrative at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, and the KB, National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague.
Awards and grants
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2024Open Call Hidden (Hi)Stories Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie Den Haag, Netherlands Open call by het Stimuleringsfonds in collaboration with het Nieuwe Instituut. Financial support for Defining Divinity.
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2024Department of Cultural Exchange Taiwan's Ministry of Culture Taipei, Taiwan Financial support for the fieldwork of Defining Divinity.