Curating transcultural spaces : perspectives on postcolonial conflicts in museum culture / edited by Sarah Hegenbart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hegenbart, Sarah, editor.

Series:

Visual cultures and German contexts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museums--Social aspects--Case studies.

Museums.

Postcolonialism.

Cultural fusion.

postcolonialism.

Museums--Social aspects.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xx, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2024.

Summary:

"Curating Transcultural Spaces asks what a museum which enables the presentation of multiple perspectives might look like. Can identity be global and local at the same time? How may one curate dual identity? More broadly, what is the link between the arts and processes of identity construction? This volume, an indispensable source for the process of engaging with colonial history in Germany and beyond, takes its starting point from the 'scandal' of the Humboldt Forum. The transfer of German state collections from the Ethnological Museum and the Museum for Asian Art, located at the margins of Berlin in Dahlem, into the centre of Germany's capital indicates the nation's aspiration of purported multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism; yet the project's resurrection of the site's former Prussian city palace, which was demolished during the GDR, stands in opposition to its very mission, given that the Prussian rulers benefited from colonial exploitation. By examining the contrasting successes of other projects, such as the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC, Curating Transcultural Spaces compellingly argues for the necessity of taking post-colonial thinking on board in the construction of museum spaces in order to generate genuine exchange between multiple perspectives"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : collaborating cultures, negotiating identities / Sarah Hegenbart

Initial legal and policy questions surrounding objects dispossessed in colonial context / An Interview with Kwame Opoku

Symptoms of postcolonial aporia and (national) identity crises in Germany / Sarah Hegenbart

Multiple Modernisms

curating the postwar era for the present / Kristian Handberg

The architecture and aesthetics of apartheid : dada in South Africa, a case study / Thomas Haakenson

Histories and landscapes embodied : counter-memorial and embodied strategies in Namibia and beyond, a case study / Julia Rensing

Democracy reflected in form space and order : learning from West Africa's ancient empires, a case study from Nigeria / Olajumoke Adenowo

Westerns made in Africa, a case study from Burkina Faso / Camille Varenne

Troubling the nation : Black Germans and the teaching of history / Jeff Bowersox

The African diaspora palace : the pastfuture of Black knowledge in Europe / Natasha A. Kelly

Cosmopolitanizing colonial memories in Berlin : the Humboldt Forum and the current shift in Germany's culture of remembrance / Thomas Thiemeyer

Under the shadow of the Christian cross : visions, delusions, and national Realpolitik. Whose concepts will be seen, whose voices can be heard behind the coat of baroque facades inside a faked Prussian palace? / Viola König.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Curating transcultural spaces

ISBN:

9781350227729

1350227722

9781350227767

1350227765

OCLC:

1401625519

Publisher Number:

99996529016