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tists, because of the marginalization that has driven them
to want to make this work, have not been subject to the
kinds of pressures in the same way our contemporary ethnographic
museums and curators have been. You mention that
you have to partner and that can take all sorts of forms,
corporate forms, for instance, but also of bringing in an artist
to work with ethnographers. In some way you have to
mobilise society and that can again be by inviting an artist
or bringing in a popular panel, all of which can challenge
the establishment. In some ways, that can be a good thing,
but if you then make redundant the practices that allow
you to create statements, which can be evidence-based and
challenging, but also a subject to very detailed, descriptive
practices of historic investigation, anthropological investigation,
that is a big baby to throw out with the bathwater.
And I think that in the British context we are experiencing it
in various institutions, not least museums.
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FJ: Henrietta mentioned in her talk an exhibition from
Gothenburg about human trafficking. I also saw this exhibition
and what was interesting there was, and I did not know
that there were artists involved, that you have a museum
producing a political exhibition. If you produce an exhibition
here for instance, the building is already packed with art.
Thus, the political impact of the work is very small because
they will not discuss the political interest, but see it as art.
What was interesting with the museum in Gothenburg was
that they could work like a kind of a TV station; take up an
issue and make a huge show that would be very accessible
to a lot of people (of course they have a lot of money to
stage it). That is interesting in relation to this exhibition.
I was a little bit disappointed with this exhibition because
what WHW were trying to do in Istanbul was to use this idea
of Bertolt Brecht in a similar way to create an easy accessible
political exhibition. They were over-pedagogic in an art
world sense, which reminded me of the museum in Gothen-
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