The Western archive is exhausted!« sagt Felwine Sarr. Was kann Wissen heute sein, jenseits europäischer Wissenssysteme? Um koloniale Denkmuster und eurozentristische, weiße Sichtweisen aufzubrechen, braucht es neue Perspektiven und andere Fragestellungen.
TALKING OBJECTS besteht aus zwei Projektbereichen: Dem TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE und dem TALKING OBJECTS LAB.
Das Archiv wird ein digitales Archiv für dekoloniale Wissensproduktion und soll 2024 online gehen. Anhand von kuratierten Objekten wird der eurozentristsche Wissenskanon herausgefordert, andere Denkschulen und Wissenssysteme aufgezeigt. Fünf Themenfelder stehen im Vordergrund: Dekolonisierung von Erinnerung, Dekolonisierung von Wissen, die Neubewertung von Objekten aus kolonialem Kontext, Empowerment und Chancen durch künstlerische Perspektiven, und Fragen an klassische museale Formen des Bewahrens und Präsentierens.
Die Think Tank- und Ausstellungsreihe TALKING OBJECTS LAB verhandelt diese Fragen in einer Reihe von öffentlichen Veranstaltungen auf dem Afrikanischen Kontient und in Deutschland,
»The Western archive is exhausted!« says Felwine Sarr. What can knowledge be today, beyond European knowledge systems? New perspectives and different questions are needed in order to break up colonial thought patterns and challenge Eurocentric, white views.
TALKING OBJECTS consists of two project areas: The TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE and the TALKING OBJECTS LAB.
The Archive will be digital archive for decolonial knowledge production and is scheduled to go online in 2024. Curated objects are used as a starting point to challenge the Eurocentric canon of knowledge, and to show other schools of thought and systems of knowledge. Five thematic fields are in the foreground: decolonizing memory, decolonizing knowledge, the re-evaluation of objects from colonial contexts, empowerment by and opportunities of artistic perspectives, and questions about classical museum forms of preservation and presentation.
The think tank and exhibition series TALKING OBJECTS LAB tackles these questions in a series of public events on the African Contient and in Germany.
The TALKING OBJECTS LAB was initiated by curator Mahret Ifeoma Kupka (Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, (http://mahretkupka.de/ )) and freelance curator and project developer Isabel Raabe (Berlin). Their partners on the African continent are the artist collectives The Nest (Jim Chuchu and Njoki Ngumi /www.thisisthenest.com/)) and African Digital Heritage (Chao Tayiana, africandigitalheritage.com/ )) from Nairobi, the Institut Fondamental d‘Afrique Noire (Cheik A. Diop University https://ifan.ucad.sn/) with Malick Ndiaye and the Musée Théodor Monod in Dakar.
Together they are investigating forms and practices of knowledge on the African continent and testing strategies of mediation and visualization.
The TALKING OBJECTS project is initiated by Isabel Raabe.
On 11th and 12th of June 2021, the performative discursive event UNEXPECTED LESSONS – Decolonizing Memory and Knowledge will be the kick-off of the TALKING OBJECTS LAB. It will take place at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and in parallel in the urban landscape of Nairobi and in the world wide web.
DECOLONIZING MEMORY AND KNOWLEDGE
The Western archive is exhausted!« sagt Felwine Sarr. Was kann Wissen heute sein, jenseits europäischer Wissenssysteme? Um koloniale Denkmuster und eurozentristische, weiße Sichtweisen aufzubrechen, braucht es neue Perspektiven und andere Fragestellungen.
TALKING OBJECTS besteht aus zwei Projektbereichen: Dem TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE und dem TALKING OBJECTS LAB.
Das Archiv wird ein digitales Archiv für dekoloniale Wissensproduktion und soll 2024 online gehen. Anhand von kuratierten Objekten wird der eurozentristsche Wissenskanon herausgefordert, andere Denkschulen und Wissenssysteme aufgezeigt. Fünf Themenfelder stehen im Vordergrund: Dekolonisierung von Erinnerung, Dekolonisierung von Wissen, die Neubewertung von Objekten aus kolonialem Kontext, Empowerment und Chancen durch künstlerische Perspektiven, und Fragen an klassische museale Formen des Bewahrens und Präsentierens.
Die Think Tank- und Ausstellungsreihe TALKING OBJECTS LAB verhandelt diese Fragen in einer Reihe von öffentlichen Veranstaltungen auf dem Afrikanischen Kontient und in Deutschland,
»The Western archive is exhausted!« says Felwine Sarr. What can knowledge be today, beyond European knowledge systems? New perspectives and different questions are needed in order to break up colonial thought patterns and challenge Eurocentric, white views.
TALKING OBJECTS consists of two project areas: The TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE and the TALKING OBJECTS LAB.
The Archive will be digital archive for decolonial knowledge production and is scheduled to go online in 2024. Curated objects are used as a starting point to challenge the Eurocentric canon of knowledge, and to show other schools of thought and systems of knowledge. Five thematic fields are in the foreground: decolonizing memory, decolonizing knowledge, the re-evaluation of objects from colonial contexts, empowerment by and opportunities of artistic perspectives, and questions about classical museum forms of preservation and presentation.
The think tank and exhibition series TALKING OBJECTS LAB tackles these questions in a series of public events on the African Contient and in Germany.
The TALKING OBJECTS LAB was initiated by curator Mahret Ifeoma Kupka (Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, (http://mahretkupka.de/ )) and freelance curator and project developer Isabel Raabe (Berlin). Their partners on the African continent are the artist collectives The Nest (Jim Chuchu and Njoki Ngumi /www.thisisthenest.com/)) and African Digital Heritage (Chao Tayiana, africandigitalheritage.com/ )) from Nairobi, the Institut Fondamental d‘Afrique Noire (Cheik A. Diop University https://ifan.ucad.sn/) with Malick Ndiaye and the Musée Théodor Monod in Dakar.
Together they are investigating forms and practices of knowledge on the African continent and testing strategies of mediation and visualization.
The TALKING OBJECTS project is initiated by Isabel Raabe.
On 11th and 12th of June 2021, the performative discursive event UNEXPECTED LESSONS – Decolonizing Memory and Knowledge will be the kick-off of the TALKING OBJECTS LAB. It will take place at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and in parallel in the urban landscape of Nairobi and in the world wide web.
www.talkingobjectslab.org/