DECOLONISING MUSEUMS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Introduction
8
The Invisible and the Visible
Identity Politics and the Economy
of Reproduction in Art
Nav Haq
23
Collecting Life’s Unknows
Clémentine Deliss
35
“Decolonising Museums”
Through the Lens of the Collections
and Archives of the Members
of L’Internationale
37
From the Collection of
the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Christiane Berndes
41
The Dutch VOC Mentality:
Cultural Policy
as a Business Model
Mirjam Kooiman
54
Catch Me If You Can!
Nana Adusei-Poku
63
From the Collection
of M HKA, Antwerpen
Jan De Vree
71
“I Guess You Guys
Aren’t Ready
For That Yet… But Your Kids
Are Gonna Love It”
Ana Bigotte Vieira
96
The Culture of Coloniality
Daniela Ortiz
104
The Border of
the ‘Fourth World’
Francisco Godoy Vega
108
1989—1992:
Myth and Magic
Francisco Godoy Vega
113
Columbus, How Do I Get Rid
of My Hangover?
Francisco Godoy Vega
119
From the Collection
of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte
Reina Sofía, Madrid (MNCARS)
Lola Hinojosa
123
A Salt Box and
a Bracelet Conversing with a
Painting: Decolonising
a Post-Soviet Museum in the
Caucasus
Madina Tlostanova
130
From the Collection
of MG+MSUM, Ljubljana
Walter Benjamin
135
Around the Postcolony and the
Museum: Curatorial Practice and
Decolonising Exhibition Histories
Rasha Salti
148
From the Collection
of MACBA, Barcelona
152
Institutional Fever in China
Colin Siyuan Chinnery
159
Frontier imaginaries
Vivian Ziherl
162
Interview:
Forced Closures
Vivian Ziherl
173
What Do We Talk About When We
Talk About Decolonisation?
Vivian Ziherl
186
Biographies
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