14/09/20
 
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DECOLONIZING COLLECTIONS – NETWORKING TOWARDS RELATIONALITY   Decolonizing – Dieser Blog möchte einen Beitrag zur Dezentrierung der Debatte über koloniale und ethnographische Sammlungen, Archive und Museen leisten. Unser Ziel ist es, koloniales Wissen und vorherrschende epistemische Praktiken kritisch zu reflektieren, auch in unserer eigenen Praxis zu überwinden und damit zugleich die hierarchischen Trennungen zwischen Zentrum […]

20/12/19
The question is really that of local agency
Voices from the conference 'Museum Collections in Motion‘
  Nicholas Thomas: Writer, museum director, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge Nicholas Thomas has written widely on art and cross-cultural encounters in the Pacific, as well as on museum histories and futures. His books include The Return of Curiosity: what museums are good for in the twenty-first century (2016). Director of the Museum of […]

20/12/19
We need a ‘Museum Truth Repatration and Restitutions Commission’
Voices from the conference 'Museum Collections in Motion‘
  Wandile Kasibe: Sociologist, museologist, Chevening scholar and public programmes coordinator at Iziko Museums of South Africa (but comments in his personal capacity) Wandile Kasibe is a UCT PhD Candidate in Sociology, his research focuses on “Museums and the Construction of Race Ideologies”. As a student, Kasibe was involved in the Rhodes Must Fall (RMF), […]

20/12/19
What we really need is a collaboration with the African diaspora here
Voices from the conference 'Museum Collections in Motion‘
  Rokia Bamba: sound designer and DJ, Brussels Since she picked up her headphones again, Rokia Bamba’s star is rising quickly in Brussels and Paris. She is not DJ-ing in just any circuit, but picks out the activist circles of Globalicious, La Colonie, Massimadi – where she curates the whole DJ-programming – and the New […]

20/12/19
Rewrite this archive
Voices from the conference 'Museum Collections in Motion‘
  Paul Tichmann: Historian, Iziko Museums of South Africa Paul Tichmann is a doctoral student in the History department at the University of the Western Cape. He is the Director of the Collections and Digitisation department at the Iziko Museums of South Africa and was formerly the curator of the Iziko Slave Lodge Museum in […]

20/12/19
Create a dialogue with people from all over the world about the objects we hold
Voices from the conference 'Museum Collections in Motion‘
  Stefanie Bach: Curator, State Ethnographic Collections Saxony Stefanie Bach is a curator for Global Art History with special reference to Africa at the Grassi Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, State Art Collections Dresden, Germany. She was a curatorial assistant at the Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden and the Grassi Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig from […]

20/12/19
History is on our side
Voices from the conference 'Museum Collections in Motion‘
  Folarin Shyllon: Legal scholar, University of Ibadan, Nigeria Folarin Shyllon read law at King’s College London. He is the Chairperson of Nigerian Chapter UNESCO Memory of the World Committee. He specializes in cultural property law and intellectual property law. He is the author of Intellectual Property Law in Nigeria (C.H. Beck, Munich, Germany, 2003), […]

20/12/19
We must de-ethnographize the objects
Voices from the conference 'Museum Collections in Motion‘
  El Hadji Malick Ndiaye: Art historian and curator, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar El Hadji Malick Ndiaye is an art historian based at Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal. He holds a PhD in Art History (University of Rennes II. France) and is a former postdoc of the Center for Research in […]

20/12/19
The postcolonial museum has less objects and more people in it
Voices from the conference 'Museum Collections in Motion‘
  Bernard Mueller: Anthropologist and curator, Cologne Bernard Müller is an anthropologist and curator based in Cologne. He studies research devices inspired by the ethnographic field, as they develop today in and outside scientific institutions. He is particularly interested in staging processes, be they scenic devices (theater, rituals, performance, etc.), museum scenographies or any situation […]

20/12/19
Bring up what is hidden about German colonialism
Voices from the conference 'Museum Collections in Motion‘
   Mnyaka Sururu Mboro: teacher & board member of Berlin Postkolonial Mnyaka Sururu Mboro, born 1951 near the Kilimandjaro in today’s Tanzania, is based in Berlin. Retired as a teacher he is still an activist, co-founder and board member of the non-government organisation Berlin Postkolonial. Mboro is actively committed to commemorate German colonial crimes […]

11/12/19
Zum Grundproblem von Ethnographie und Kolonialismus
Einige Gedanken zu zwei Ausstellungen im Berliner Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Im Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin kann man noch bis zum 06. Januar 2020 zwei Ausstellungen besuchen, die mehrere Dinge gemeinsam haben. Die erste Gemeinsamkeit ist zunächst nicht sehr ungewöhnlich, sondern vielmehr im Gegenteil Museumsalltag. Beide Ausstellungen widmen sich dem Werk von weißen, toten, deutschen Männern. „Spektral/Weiß: Die Erscheinung kolonialzeitlicher Europäer*innen“ behandelt eine […]