Screen LibraryThe metabolic museum /
"For quite some time now, ethnographic museums in Europe have been compelled to legitimate themselves. Their exhibition-making has become a topic of discussion, as has the contentious history of their collections, which have come about through colonial appropriation. Clearly, this cannot contin...
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Hatje Cantz,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin : |
| Publication Dates: | [2020] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"For quite some time now, ethnographic museums in Europe have been compelled to legitimate themselves. Their exhibition-making has become a topic of discussion, as has the contentious history of their collections, which have come about through colonial appropriation. Clearly, this cannot continue. That the situation can be different is something that Clémentine Deliss explores in her current publication. She offers an intriguing mix of autobiographically-informed novel and conceptual thesis on contemporary art and anthropology. Reflections on her own work while she was Director of Frankfurt's Weltkulturen Museum (Museum of World Cultures) are interwoven with the explorations of influential filmmakers, artists and writers. She introduces the Metabolic Museum as an interventionist laboratory for remediating ethnographic collections for future generations." -- from publisher's website. |
| Carrier Form: | 127 pages ; 19 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9783775747806 377574780X |
| Index Number: | GN36 |
| CLC: | G268.9 |
| Call Number: | G268.9/D354 |
| Contents: |
Prologue -- Manifesto for the post-ethnographic museum -- Walking through -- Artists and anthropologists -- Blind spots -- Spatial taxonomies -- The archival underbelly -- First guests -- Laboratories and workshops -- Agency and collections -- Models of inquiry -- Experiments in transgression -- The consequences of remediation -- A museum in reverse -- The lure of objects -- Vital relationships -- Models of a museum-university -- Manifesto for rights of access to colonial collections sequestered in Western Europe. |