2022/03/26

At 2016 Blockchain Gallery Launch, Artist Harm van den Dorpel Put Colonialism on the Menu

● 26/03/2022
“The dish’s colonial origins not only placed an elided aspect of European history in the spotlight, but also sought to explore the quasi-colonial relations that are built into the Internet’s infrastructure, a mentality we wanted to confront and oppose.”
– Blockchain-based Left Gallery, reflecting on artist and co-founder Harm van den Dorpel serving gado gado—“Indonesian specialties that became familiar to Europeans as the advance of Dutch colonialism subsumed the territory”—at the gallery’s 2016 launch event
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