Crawling Doubles. Colonial Collecting and Affect (series of 4 panels) Channels through the Institution – Undermining the colo

Film still of Trypanosoma Brucei, Institut Pasteur, 1932 by Jean Comandon

28.06.2014 | 2.30pm, Haus am Waldsee

Crawling Doubles. Colonial Collecting and Affect (series of 4 panels): Channels through the Institution – Undermining the colonial legacy of museums and expositions

 

Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc in collaboration with Lotte Arndt and Catalina Lozano

Panel discussion in English

 

Crawling Doubles. Colonial Collecting and Affect is a series of discursive events organized in the framework of Abonnenc’s project. The highly contested ground of colonial collections calls for a continued examination beyond disciplinary borders. The four sessions will address a series of questions in order to sharpen analytical tools by fostering critical conversations between artists, researchers, activists, and cultural theorists.

 

In the past decades, the colonial legacy of museums and expositions has been increasingly questioned in search for approaches that allow us to overcome the inherited structures of colonial collecting and the remnants of exoticist displays. This panel focuses on strategies for the dismantling of Eurocentric and colonial collections and displays. It brings together artistic projects and curatorial interventions engaged in undermining the universalist ambitions of world exhibitions, proposing to mash up the archive of the Iwalewa-Haus, and working on the foundations of a post-ethnographic museum in Frankfurt/Main.

 

With Guillaume Désanges/Michel Franois, Yvette Mutumba, and Nadine Siegert/Sam Hopkins, moderated by Nora Sternfeld.

 

Haus am Waldsee, Argentinische Allee 30, 14163 Berlin

Free entrance

 

Produced by Galeries Lafayette Group

 

 

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