{"id":73653,"date":"2023-02-28T09:51:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T08:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/programm\/laufzeitangebot\/other-en\/mingled-living-forces-73653\/"},"modified":"2023-07-03T16:32:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T14:32:12","slug":"mingled-living-forces","status":"publish","type":"event-period","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/laufzeitangebot\/exhibition\/mingled-living-forces-73653\/","title":{"rendered":"MINGLED LIVING FORCES"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Imad Alfil, Bar Esh, Paulin Fichtner & Conrad Kunze, Quang Vinh Giang, Mohamad Halbouni & Aline Suter, Melis Kiran, Hami Mehr, Jasmin Sermonet, Inyeong Song, Raras Umaratih, Jelisa Weber<\/p>\n

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How to reflect artistically on the evidence of colonial violence? How to intervene in an ethnological museum while the restitution of looted material culture takes place? How to draw speculative futures?<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Engaging with these questions, new artworks in a variety of media and formats including performance, installation, print, sculpture, painting, video and VR find their way into the ethnological museum. MINGLED LIVING FORCES, the title of the intervention, is a quote from Suzanne C\u00e9saire\u2019s DISCONTENT OF A CIVILIZATION[1] where she makes an urgent call to engender a new future. It is as an homage to her teachings that this intervention follows her text, which is both an analytical study of a present\/past and a poetic assertion for the possibility of something new. MINGLED LIVING FORCES also refers to our coming together during these last months: a coming together of different peoples, coming together with texts, coming together with the inhabitants of the museum. It is the mingling of these forces that we are invoking.<\/p>\n

Beyond this summoning, this intervention has several conceptual entry points: it investigates the museum’s raison d’\u00eatre by engaging artistically with what it means to collect and to exhibit within a framework of domination; it approaches the museum\u2019s perpetuation of colonial violences through material and sound interventions; and through spatial drawing, it engages with artistic speculations as a means to inhabit a future museum once beings and material culture are returned.<\/p>\n

The intervention presents these artistic works in an already inhabited space, entering into dialogue with the materials and documents exhibited in Leerstellen.Ausstellen \u2013 a temporary exhibition within the ethnological museum, whose concerns and approach to colonial history we believe should be made permanent. The superimposition of MINGLED LIVING FORCES and Leerstellen.Ausstellen, with their meeting and collision points, is ultimately an experiment in spatial dialogue among objects, bodies, and exhibition practices.<\/p>\n

MINGLED LIVING FORCES was developed in the context of the tandem seminars Colonial Presents: Artistic and Curatorial Interrogating and Zeichnen Farbe Fl\u00e4che – Spatial Drawing at the wei\u00dfensee school of art and design berlin during the Winter Semester 22 \/23.<\/em><\/p>\n

Curatorial development & Teaching
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