DECOLONISING MUSEUMS

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DECOLONISING MUSEUMS the power imbalance that was once installed through colonisation, it is still very much part of how European societies are organised. Offering a remedy to this situation however also will never mean a return, but always the beginning of a new chapter. What the ‘de’ then signifies is that it is only by addressing the past and how it still lingers on today, that it is possible to move onwards. The two opening essays by Nav Haq and Clémentine Deliss, each in their own way, engage with such a confrontation. Nav Haq thinks through the pitfalls of the traditional forms of institutional critique and identity politics to arrive at a new proposal to address power imbalance. Instead of putting all the emphasis on inclusion, one should first consider in what space one is included. The big danger of previous attempts to rectify the damage has been to include marginalised identities in representational spaces which are still prevalently white, male and heterosexual. Exploring the practice of Haegue Yang and other artists, he offers a new approach that takes these foundations on. Deliss, who unfortunately was unable to continue her work in the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, takes on the museum directly and proposes a methodology she describes as ‘remediation’, producing a shift and a remedy. Drawing from Carl Einstein’s radical writing, she proposes how a museum can resist the attempt to produce the spectacle of the Oriental and use the collection in self-reflexive ways as a contemporary resource to produce meaning. Throughout the issue, Deliss’ argument is unpacked through a series of case studies: works in the collections of the museums who are members of L’Internationale confederation are selected and presented by the staff of the collection departments. Mirjam Kooiman discusses recent cases of institutions who are ignoring to deal with the colonial heritage in a critical manner in the Netherlands. Nana Adusei-Poku points to the ‘strategic temporal disjuncture’ in the attempts to counter colonialism, referring to the disconnection between the research done to raise awareness and understanding of the colonial condition on the one hand, and the general make-up of research and education on the other. Using Fred Moten and Stefano Harney’s idea of the ‘undercommons’, she suggests that instead of correcting the existing system, it is better to consider starting completely somewhere else, building a parallel system that can interact with the mainstream in a different way. Ana Bigotte Vieira (Part 1 and Part 2) brings a Portuguese perspective, offering an essay originally written for the conference When Where the 80s?. She unpacks how discussions L’INTERNATIONALE ONLINE – DECOLONISING MUSEUMS – 6
DECOLONISING MUSEUMS around colonisation and emancipation take place in a country which was under Salazar’s dictatorship until 1974, demonstrating that the common black and white division that marks anything done under dictatorial rule as evil and everything afterwards as good, needs to be reconsidered for a more comprehensive assessment of past and present events. Daniela Ortiz critically reflects on the role of museums in the civic debate around the migration laws issued by the Spanish government. Analysing the manner in which her own work was presented, Ortiz points to the many indirect ways in which museums take position in this charged debate. Francisco Godoy Vega was associated with L’Internationale Online as contributor to the Opinions section. His articles offer a series of shorter and timely reflections on questions of coloniality and contemporary culture. Madina Tlostanova presents another geographic perspective, on the former Soviet countries, focusing on the manner in which heritage has been treated in that region and how the artist Taus Makhacheva “problematises the museum as an imperial institution of aesthetic and epistemic control” in her work The Way of an Object (2013). Rasha Salti’s essay describes the curatorial strategies behind her recent research in collaboration with Kristine Khouri, that resulted in the exhibition Past Disquiet: Narratives and Ghosts from The International Art Exhibition for Palestine, 1978 at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) in Barcelona (20 February—1 June 2015). Colin Siyuan Chinnery presents an overview of the development of museums in China and an insight into the rapid expansion of the cultural institutions since the 2000s. Finally Vivian Ziherl’s contributions close this publication with a series of interviews that took place within the framework of the Frontier Imaginaries with Mitch Torres, Gary Foley, Elizabeth A. Povinelli and Rachel O’Reilly. L’INTERNATIONALE ONLINE – DECOLONISING MUSEUMS – 7
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