Pamela Tulizo (Goma, 1993) is a trained journalist and artistic photographer who runs the cultural project space Tulizo Elle Space for women and girls in Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Photography is one of the lines of communication she uses to enter into dialogue with her community and the world. Her artistic work has won several awards and has been exhibited internationally, including in Belgium, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
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Institute of Colonial Culture (ICC) - Research on Congolese Heritage
ICC consists of a collection of artefacts, documents, books, photographs, and films representing colonial presence in Congo, mainly focusing on the period 1884-1960. There is hardly any tangible material left in Congo of that period, due to the hastily departure of most colonisers after the independence in 1960. ICC is an institute, existing separately but hosted in DR Congo by the National Museum in Lubumbashi and in Belgium by Enough Room for Space (ERforS), that creates a permanent archive of objects, clothes, letters, photo's, audio and video recordings, books and documents representing colonial culture. Or put differently, the daily life and work of white European colonists in the colonial period.
The aim is to remedy a void in the collection of the National Museum, but also the public knowledge about the colonial period, both in Belgium and DR Congo, by creating an archive of colonial culture, the first of its kind in DR Congo. By doing so, it facilitates a more egalitarian writing of history, where the dominant ethnographic western view towards colonisation and African cultures in general, is reversed. ICC puts western culture under an 'African microscope' by using material and documentation from both colonisers and colonised. Both researchers and artists are invited to work with this extraordinary archive and thus slowly initiate a recontextualisation of the entire material.
