The Practice of Decolonization: Art, Anthropology, History, and the 21st Century Museum

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The Practice of Decolonization: Art, Anthropology, History, and the 21st Century Museum

Veranstalter
Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) in Culture and Society
Veranstaltungsort
Museum am Rothenbaum Kulturen und Künste der Welt (MARKK) Rothenbaumchaussee 64,
Gefördert durch
Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, VolkswagenStiftung
PLZ
20148
Ort
Hamburg
Land
Deutschland
Findet statt
In Präsenz
Vom - Bis
11.06.2024 - 11.06.2024
Deadline
05.06.2024
Website
https://www.leuphana.de/zentren/lias/aktuell/termine/ansicht/2024/06/11/lias-konferenz-the-practice-of-decolonization-art-anthropology-history-and-the-21st-century-museum.html
Von
Maximilian Mohr

While the imperative of “decolonizing” the museum is frequently invoked, we are still clarifying what precisely this should involve. The pressing question of today is no longer the "that" but the "how". We are in the middle of thinking how art and ethnographic museums should reorganize collections formed from, or in support of, colonial violence. How should they structure processes of restitution or re-contextualization of objects, seek new accessions and serve new publics?

The Practice of Decolonization: Art, Anthropology, History, and the 21st Century Museum

This one-day conference at MARKK brings together museum practitioners, artists, theorists and historians. It explores what materials, techniques, languages and concepts have been used to contradict the colonial model of the museums. How are new spatial experiences created? How are different ways of exhibiting developed? How can museums establish new relations of inclusion and response to their stakeholders, both local and transnational?

Programm

9:00-9:30 am Welcome remarks and introduction
Barbara Plankensteiner
Director Museum am Rothenbaum Kulturen und Künste der Welt (MARKK)
Richard Drayton
Professor of Imperial History, King's College London, LIAS Senior Fellow
9:30-10:15 am The Historian as an Agent in Museum 'Decolonisation'
Pierre Singaravélou, Professor of Modern History, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
10:15-11:00 am Snapshot of an Exhibition at a certain place at a certain Time. The exhibition RESIST! The Art of Resistance at the RJM (2021)
Nanette Snoep, Director Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum Cultures of the World
11:00-11:15 am Coffee Break
11:15-12:00 am Rethinking the Museum after Apartheid: Voice, Practice, Materiality
Clive van den Berg, Artist, curator, designer
12:00-12:45 pm Tour through the Saltpeter Exhibit “Weißes Wüstengold, Chile – Saltpeter und Hamburg”
Christine Chavéz, Curator of Collections from the Americas, Museum am Rothenbaum Kulturen und Künste der Welt (MARKK)
12:45-1:45 pm Lunch
Okzident Café in the MARKK
1:45-2:30 pm “We have always been here”: Indigenous Presence in Museums
Fernanda Pitta, Professor in the Art Research, Theory and Criticism, Division of the Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo
2:30-2:50 pm MARKK Then and Now
Barbara Plankensteiner, Director Museum am Rothenbaum Kulturen und Künste der Welt (MARKK)
2:50-3:00 pm Closing remarks

Kontakt

lias@leuphana.de

https://www.leuphana.de/zentren/lias/aktuell/termine/ansicht/2024/06/11/lias-konferenz-the-practice-of-decolonization-art-anthropology-history-and-the-21st-century-museum.html