The Reclamation Assembly (TRA)

Abstract

The Reclamation Assembly (TRA) is a Dutch-based practitioner-member association that connects cultural institutions with culturally embedded artists, performers, educators and knowledge-holders from marginalised communities. TRA’s USP is twofold: it helps institutions activate their programmes through living cultural context, while giving underrepresented, diasporic and marginalised practitioners access, visibility, fair pay and authorship protection. TRA will build a legal association, practitioner network, digital directory and ethical mediation framework. Through activation packages, consisting of performances, talks, workshops, demonstrations and advisory sessions, TRA will make collaboration between institutions and practitioners fair, practical and repeatable. TRA begins in the Netherlands, with the aim of creating a cultural sector where collections, programmes and histories are brought into rightful relationships with the living knowledge systems that give them meaning.