Bisexual Ancestral Spirits - Or are we misunderstanding something?
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| 10 EUR |
| Please book your ticket in advance online or at the box office in the foyer |
| Duration: 60 min |
| German |
| Accessible for wheelchairs |
| 2nd Floor |
| max. 20 persons |
| Part of: One Object, Many Questions |
The series of events “One Object – Many Questions” focuses on a special exhibit on each event, whose history and stories will be explored in conversation with experts.
The clearly bisexual representation of the figure of an ancestral spirit from Papua New Guinea invites speculation. Is this a transsexual spirit being? What cultural concepts of gender roles and gender ascriptions existed and exist there today? In this dialogue-based lecture format, the aim is to get to know new perspectives on these topics and at the same time to question our own categorisations of “gender” and thus also our concepts of persons in general.
Dr. Gina Knapp is an anthropologist, filmmaker and researcher. She works as a curator for visual anthropology at the Ethnological Museum Berlin.
