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Accepted Paper:
A history of artistic interventions: decolonising strategies and repatriation precedents
Khadija Zinnenburg Carroll
(Central European University)
Anna Mossolova
(University of Oslo)
Paper Short Abstract:
This paper reflects on the history of artists' interventions into anthropological collections over the past forty years, laying out the findings of a long-term study of artists’ critical and instrumental engagement with ethnographic museums.
Paper Abstract:
Reflecting on the history of artist’s interventions into anthropological collections in the past forty years shows an outline of the changing strategies and precedents for those responding to repatriations today. From counter appropriations and violent acts of reversal to conceptual play and collaboration—this introductory talk will lay out the findings of a long-term study of artists’ critical and instrumental engagement with ethnographic museums. It will also analyse a range of specific works, presenting the case studies of a current ERC project on artists' roles in repatriations from museums to stakeholder communities.