Simone Zeefuik
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Simone Zeefuik is an Afro-Dutch writer, cultural programmer and organiser whose work revolves around the everyday, joy and social justice. She focuses on imagination as access, the (de)spectacleization of Blackness and (digital) archives. Zeefuik is a programmer at the Bijlmer Parktheater in Amsterdam and a lecturer at Zawdie Sandvliets Afro-Dutch Studies. From 2021-2023, Zeefuik was the program director of the temporary masters programme Blacker Blackness at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, which she initiated. Her work focuses on imagination as a method to decolonise, decode and free(er) representations of Black people and Blackness in art and design. For the forthcoming publication Playing Constant: The Only Constant Is Change, Zeefuik wrote the essay “Rust.” (“Rest.”). Playing Constant is a publication by Jap Sam Books in collaboration with Zippora Elders and Fondation Constant, reflecting on the Constant 101 project, due spring 2025.
For the forthcoming publication Playing Constant: The Only Constant Is Change, Zeefuik wrote the essay “Rust.” (“Rest.”). Playing Constant is a publication by Jap Sam Books in collaboration with Zippora Elders and Fondation Constant, reflecting on the Constant 101 project, due spring 2025.
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Together with Romana Vrede and Ira Kip she co-initiated PaarsPaars, the conversation-platform where Black and NBPOC makers, thinkers, artists, writers and enthusiasts reflect on art works that engage with their imagination and realities.
Projects and initiatives she initiated or co-initiated include podcast Project Wiaspora, speakers’ platform Soapbox, Blacker Blackness, RE:Definition, #RewriteTheInstitute, #DecolonizeTheMuseum and #UndocumentedNL.
