Whispered poem
about value and violence
For a monstruos choir
multi-vocal and invisible
With the voices of and echoes by
Hodan Warsame Milone Reigman Amal Alhaag Simone Lagrand
Octavia Butler Che Gossett Eva Heyward Toni Morrison Hortense Spillers
Alok Vaid Menon Maya Binyam Terrion L. Williamson Mabel O. Wilson
Denise Ferreira Da Silva Teju Cole Grada Kilomba Erykah Badu
Madlib Susan Leigh Star Jared Sexton Edouard Glissant
Camae Defstar Moor Mother Fred Moten Derica Shields
Luce Irigaray Lindon Barrett M. NourbeSe Philip
Whispered by Hodan Warsame and Maria Guggenbichler
Publication concept & Mickey Felicia A. von Zweigbergk
Commissioned by the Research Center for Material Culture
as part of the RCMC’S ongoing ‘Un/Engendering’
research into the Tropenmuseum Amsterdam’s collection
For the event ‘Body Politics’
Lichthal, Tropenmuseum Amsterdam
Photo: “Opening van de tentoonstelling ‘Wonderen van Sumatraanse Weefkunst’ in de Lichthal van het Tropenmuseum, 1948”
Collection Tropenmuseum Amsterdam TM-60061257