darbouze[at]kitlv.nl

Darbouze, BSc, MSc Kim

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Kim Darbouze is psycho-social researcher who merges material, ecological, and artistic embodied themes to address the various haunting impacts colonialism. Through these themes Kim shows how colonialism justifies killability and extraction for capital commodity. Using weaving and dance Kim builds upon indigenous, local, and cultural knowledge of the intertwined connections between Land, species, ecologies, bodies, memory, and embodied trauma that takes shape long after trauma, wounding, erasures, and violence. Kim incorporates a way re-form, heal, and connect. 

The work focus on harvesting healing futures while repairing the ruptures that such extractions and violence creates for lifetimes. Using her psychology background in harmony with anthropology and arts Kim applies therapeutic forms of healing that are tied to needs of local communities rather than imposing the colonial forms of suturing that often leave out and reduces this deeply woven ties. From the air we breath to clothing wear, colonialism is all around us and flowing through oceans creating these global ruptures. As the pharcyde reminds us, we can’t keep running away. We must face it and find ways to heal through Indigenous knowledge and rituals.