{"id":107666,"date":"2023-11-01T15:56:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T14:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/programm\/termin\/other-en\/kigiilya-ein-objekt-ist-kein-objekt-2-107666\/"},"modified":"2023-11-13T15:06:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T14:06:30","slug":"kigiilya-ein-objekt-ist-kein-objekt-2","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/discourse\/kigiilya-ein-objekt-ist-kein-objekt-2-107666\/","title":{"rendered":"Kigiilya. An object is (not) an object"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Exhibitions on colonialism are a challenge, especially for curators with a critical perspective on racism: a large number of the objects that could be shown come from colonial \u2013 i.e. violent \u2013 contexts themselves and thus prolong the historical violence into the present. Furthermore, the artefacts available usually reflect the perspective of the colonisers. This can be seen, for example, in the object descriptions, which often repeat colonial-racist ideas. That is why exhibitions engaging in the topic of colonialism and its intertwining with racism and contemporary discourses are increasingly involving artistic interventions.<\/p>\n

Starting with the human sculpture “kigiilya”, we examine artistic interventions in the context of exhibitions critical of colonialism, and in connection with the logic of museum categorisation. In conversation with Christopher Nixon we approach the question of what makes an object an object. How can artefacts snatched from their societies of origin escape the object status? How do artistic interventions relate to historical artefacts?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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