The Judgement of the White Cube

Overview

CATPC argues that white cube museums have been funded by profits extracted from plantation worker communities. In 2017, they erected their own white cube exhibition space in Lusanga. For CATPC, this White Cube stands for all museums and galleries throughout the world. In 2023, the collective placed their White Cube on trial. The performance-film The Judgement of the White Cube shows this Indigenous trial and features several members of the collective demanding justice for the extraction of wealth to finance museums. In the film, the judge, Mbuku Kimpala, convicts and sentences the White Cube to dedicate its energies for the good of the post-plantation. CATPC hopes their story sparks change and will ripple across the globe.