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Unboxing the visual archive: museums, artists, and critical collaborations? 
Convenors:
Diana Miryong Natermann (Universität Hamburg)
Caroline Braeuer (Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum)
Inge Van Hulle (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory)
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Format:
Panel
Stream:
Images of the living and dead
Location:
Room 1221
Sessions:
Friday 10 June, -
Time zone: Europe/Berlin

Short Abstract:

Recently, European museums have critically examined the visual heritage in their archives and questioned its informational value. This panel explores how institutions are historically biased by design and what collaborations between museums and specailists from the Global South could look like.

Long Abstract:

With a claim to authenticity and objectivity, but backed up by colonial power(s) and ideology, colonial institutions created images of people, objects, and landscapes in Africa that fill today's archives and museums. Thus, collections contributed significantly to the formation of harmful stereotypes that still have an impact today.

No best practice has yet been determined and the concept of "good practice" in this context is in itself questionable. This panel explores how these institutions are historically biased by design and what collaborations between Western museums and artists and scholars from the African diaspora or the Global South could look like. How can we make sure that these collaborations are long-term in nature and not merely lip service paid by the institutions in the name of political correctness?

This panel will discuss above questions by starting with Inge Van Hulle´s paper that explores the history of the Belgian colonial imagery of the Leopard Man murders and connects this to the visual representation of the Leopard Man statue in the newly renovated Africa Museum in Tervuren, Belgium, in a 'fictitious' storage space. The project by Diana Natermann engages with the long-term socio-cultural and political effects whose origins date back to the creation of colonial photography and the related visual representations of the so-called sub-Saharan Other in contemporary Europe. Caroline Bräuer´s paper will refer to the Counter Images exhibition series at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum in Cologne. In collaboration with artists, curators, and activists the exhibition explores marginalized images as visual tools for (self-) empowerment.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Friday 10 June, 2022, -
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