{"id":20100,"date":"2020-10-23T16:09:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T14:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/programm\/event-reihe\/other-en\/99-fragen-20100\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T08:43:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T06:43:43","slug":"99-questions","status":"publish","type":"event-sequence","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/event-reihe\/discourse\/99-questions-20100\/","title":{"rendered":"99 Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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99 Question<\/em>s is a research-led program platform that builds on practices of acquiring, sustaining, and sharing knowledge within\u00a0a complex epistemic network that transcends national borders and natural boundaries. Engaged in scholarship beyond (museum) collections,\u00a099 Question<\/em>s is research and practice at the same time. The project\u00a0<\/em>concerns itself with situated knowledge and narratives, posing critical questions on hegemonies within the museum complex.<\/p>\n

99 Questions<\/em>\u00a0is an attempt to understand the museum as a decentralized structure and transform it into a vibrant space for exchange. There is no concrete center and therefore no periphery \u2013 with its unique geographic characteristics, every place contributes equally to a pluralistic narrative. The project is based upon a methodology revolving around and developed during gatherings defined as “research nodes” or “knots.” We understand the research nodes as a series of interconnected points that create a larger, stable whole, drawing on the meaning the metaphor of the nodes (or knots) holds across different languages and cultures. In the course and context of this series of ‘events of knowledge,’ curation is employed as a dynamic process that promotes world-building, highlights the plurality of cosmologies, and fosters collaborative learning. The exchanges pinpoint local specific issues and questions which interweave in the grand scheme of the\u00a099 Questions<\/em>\u00a0project to create meaningful spaces for collectively gaining and sharing knowledge, where gathering beyond the hierarchization of knowledge, remembrance, and ideas becomes possible.<\/p>\n

99 Questions\u00a0<\/em>is dedicated to exploring multi-perspective future-making and speculative dimensions. By creating imaginative spaces and\u00a0instigating reflections on\u00a0divergent\u00a0futures, it seeks to nurture transformative and creative thinking in curatorial practice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Through the engagements and\u00a0research nodes,\u00a099 Questions<\/em>\u00a0strives to foster a dynamic dialogue among artists, communities, museum staff, and researchers, thus facilitating shifts in how curation, collections, representation, language, epistemologies, and community participation are understood and navigated.\u00a0We aim at\u00a0amplifying the voices of the local communities we are collaborating with, allowing their narratives to take center stage.\u00a0Instead of forcing upon translocated artefacts and information a static and predefined taxonomy, the museum is understood as a place for learning from different knowledge systems, practices, and cosmologies, aiming to counter the epistemical extractivism\u00a0and normativization historically practiced in ethnological an academic research.<\/p>\n

The cyclic program of the\u00a099 Question Nodes<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0encompasses diverse formats, including public dialogues, gatherings, installations, performances, workshops, and residencies. These formats are not isolated but function as a dynamic ecosystem of relationships, bridging different territories and cosmologies. The\u00a099 Questions Magazine\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>and the\u00a099 Questions Podcast\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>are\u00a0a collection of creative encounters with the topics discussed during the nodes, while also taking the shape of a node in and of themselves\u00a0\u2013 a digital node that is, a connecting point in a web of transnational and transcultural exchange.\u00a0 The articles and artistic writings will be published in different languages, so as to give space to the works\u2019 specific poetic and political dimensions. The\u00a099 Questions Gathering<\/em><\/strong>, a polyphonic event held at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, plays a pivotal role in knitting together and enabling further nodes of exchange among the research nodes, participants, and museum visitors.<\/p>\n

Based at the Humboldt Forum,\u00a099 Questions<\/em>\u00a0holds the responsibility to engage with the debates round the building of the\u00a0Berliner Schloss<\/span>, as well as the collections therein. The Humboldt Forum houses museums and academic institutions that partially developed out of ethnographic practices and originate from the\u00a0custodianship\u00a0of collections comprising cultural belongings of global and local relevance that emerged during the European colonial project.<\/p>\n

Sounds interesting? Then mark your calendars for\u00a0October 25th<\/sup>\u00a0to November 3rd<\/sup>, 2024\u00a0<\/strong>and join our 10-day event, when the\u00a099 Questions Gathering<\/em>\u00a0unfolds at the Humboldt Forum, offering a diverse program of artist talks, installations, film screenings, performance, and weaving sessions!<\/p>\n

If you want to join our newsletter, have questions or comments, or want to know more, you can contact us via\u00a0<\/em>99questions (at) humboldtforum.org<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tread more<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tread less<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/read-mode>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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