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Lehrende: Dr. Bernard Müller
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
Orga-Einheit: 03-Ethnologie
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2
Unterrichtssprache:
Deutsch
Offizielle Kursbeschreibung:
This seminar-workshop aims to analyse the malaise that are facing most
of the European ethnographic museums today. Just the once, this crisis
will not be addressed only theoretically but also by proposing practical
solutions. In an experimental approach and on a small scale level, the
participants / students will elaborate during the semester their own
museum-related propositions, envisaged as a curatorial answer to a
theoretical problem. In order to try to understand the stakes of the
current crisis, having identified the symptoms of the malaise, we will
retrace the history of the ethnographic museum as an institution but also
as a scenographic and performative practice, echoing the current global
situation, in a critical and postcolonial state of mind. Considering the
form of the ethnographic exhibition as a theatre of objects (the latter not
necessarily being material, as in "intangible culture" or "oral history"), we
propose to approach the biography of the object by the multiplicity of
appropriations and variety of uses/usages to which it is subject/object,
as expression of the variety of temporalities it relates to.
Resting preferably upon objects of Ethnographic Collections of Saxony
(SES), on related past projects or connected topics, the participants of
the seminar-workshops will implement genuine museum projects
(ethnographic propositions, artistic installations, performances, small
exhibitions, multimedia devices, and outside the wall actions, such as
guided tours in town, for instance ) that will be presented to the public in
the permanent exhibition of the Grassi Museum in the last week of June
2016 (see Student Works WS 2015-2016).
In order to move away from disciplinary compartmentalisation, this
workspace is envisioned as a collaborative platform, a place that aims to
gather ethnologists, artists, philosophers, art historians, curators,
mediators, designers / architects and various professions (and not only
ethnologists), in collaboration with several departments.
Organised jointly with the Institute of Anthropology at the University of
Leipzig, the Staatliche Ethnographische Sammlungen Sachsen, and at
first for this semester with the HGB- Hochschule für Grafik und
Buchkunst, this and the following seminar-workshops are open to all.
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