Roskildevej 289 st
2610 Rødovre
Denmark
- Arts
Jambatan is a non-profit art and culture association founded by multidisciplinary artist Amir Zainorin and anthropologist Pia Poulsen in Copenhagen in 2008. The Malay word Jambatan translates ‘Bridge’ in English. The name promotes interconnectivity between people and recognizes the potential to create a community that serves as a catalyst for generating new forms for collaboration and activities across borders of nationality, culture, language and belief.
Jambatan specializes in interdisciplinary audience engagement collaborating with museums, art institutions, schools and organizations creating a platform for artists to share their works through dialogs, archival, pedagogy and development of imaginative and investigative exhibitions in Denmark and Internationally. We are also looking forward to work with performance artists that are experimenting with new media and put importance in research in their works.
Jambatan works within the themes of migration, displacement, memories and decolonization based on the overall factors such as imperialism and global economic segregation impervious to the hierarchization of humanity into a racial or cultural center. It gives focus on the diaspora and minority community regardless of their ethnicity, race, religion or sexual orientation in a so called ‘world divided into compartments,’; where we see growing inequalities between the North and the South and between the haves and the haves not.
It contributes to bigger public awareness about the work of diaspora artists and offers nuances to the dialogue of the global movements of migration. It explores the notion of belonging and experiences of hybridity that exists in having multiple cultural heritage. It sparks an interest in art that enables a transnational connectedness and seeks for a sustainable lifestyle.
Arts festival, art workshop, symposium, art talks
Inviting artists from other countries to participate in our activities and collaborating with different institution, organisation or artist association or collective in making art projects.
For networking and building working relationship to make art projects.