Good Ancestors exhibition 2024
Good Ancestors: Art and Culture for Future Generations
Exhibit organised by the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations and the Permanent Mission of Jamaica to the United Nations, UN General Assembly Building, Visitors Lobby, Gallery C, September 16th through 27th, 2024
The information below is provided to accompany the exhibition. Some of the content was licensed explicitly for the exhibition and must not be reproduced without prior consent of the respective owners, listed on the first page of the exhibit.
Introduction
Join hands with deep-time ancestors
New Mythologies
Artist Ainsley Burrows' website
Books that can't be read until the next century
The largest African art piece ever made
The pyramid that will take 1,200 years to build
more information (English)/(German)
This ancient horse must be maintained or it will disappear
A clock designed to keep time for ten millennia
Fishermen and the Ocean
Artist Subodh Kerkar's website
The sound of the Future: A 1,000-year musical composition
Pamurimasa: Spirits of Transformation
Paulo Desana's webpage on indigena.art
The worlds slowest concert
The ghosts of the past - reframed
Artist Lisandro Suriel's website
Future Design
Long before humanity, these organisms thrived on Earth
A poem carved into the streets to increase the number of Saturdays
more information (English)/(Dutch)
For far future generations
Artist Angelina Kumar's website and Martin Kunze's Memory of Mankind