Africa | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent

The Multiplication of Perspectives: Restitution and Return

Kader Attia and Souleymane Bachir Diagne

March 25, 2020

The discussion raises contemporary questions of restitution of cultural property taken during periods of colonial expansion. Curator Sean Anderson discusses the challenges of the repatriation of monuments and the protocols of repair; artist Kader Attia explores models of repair that do not aspire to erase the inherent injury but rather embody new forms of resistance; and professor of philosophy Souleymane Bachir Diagne addresses the translation of objects from objects of ethnographic curiosity to artworks and how a material return can occasion resocialization and transformation.

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The Multiplication of Perspectives: Opening Keynote

In the keynote lecture, Zdenka Badovinac introduces her concept of the “sustainable museum,” and explores possible translocal approaches to exhibition practice from the so-called periphery, nevertheless situated within the neoliberal global network of art museums and biennials.

Meghan Forbes and Zdenka Badovinac

Asia | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent

Borders and the Barrier of the Skin

A key contradiction of globalization is its facilitation of the movement of goods while the movement of people is increasingly restricted. Furthering this tendency, biometric technologies have expanded the traditional notion of the border, regulating the circulation of gendered, racialized, and classed bodies.

Achille Mbembe, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz and Iberia Pérez González

West Asia | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent

Documenting Migration in Contemporary Art: Bouchra Khalili’s The Mapping Journey Project

How to raise awareness of the most recent refugee crisis in the Mediterranean in a way that does not spectacularize human suffering? Beginning with Bouchra Khalili’sThe Mapping Journey Project, this essay addresses how the present crisis has manifested as image and has made its way, across a variety of methodological and ethical approaches, into works of…

Argyro Nicolaou

The Multiplication of Perspectives: Opening Keynote

Borders and the Barrier of the Skin

Documenting Migration in Contemporary Art: Bouchra Khalili’s The Mapping Journey Project

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