• 01:37 Taking on the Weltkulturen Museum
  • 02:26 A third space between storage and exhibition
  • 04:43 The Laboratory as a space of cohabitation with the object
  • 06:10 On how ethnographical museums became chronically deficient
  • 09:16 Operating in a state of deficiency
  • 10:37 An ideological question: burial, repatriation or remediation
  • 12:52 A way to deal with a sick museum
  • 15:00 To bring in other ways of looking
  • 19:29 Lab-furniture and how to make things possible
  • 22:58 A real use of the collection
  • 24:41 A research collection
  • 27:30 Fieldwork in the museum
  • 29:03 Bringing people closer to the incongruous
  • 33:00 A position within the context
  • 35:42 The problem of anthropology
20/04/2015 45' 14''
English

Clémentine Deliss has been Director of the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt since 2010. She studied contemporary art and anthropology and holds a PhD in Philosophy, and has extensive experience as an independent curator in Europe and Africa. She is now directing an institution for the first time – an ethnographic museum that opened over one hundred years ago and is trying to find its reason for being. It is what Deliss calls a sick museum, a permanent condition that needs to be healed.

SON[I]A talks to Deliss about the possibility of a post-ethnographic and post-colonial museum, and about the strategies that she has tested in recent years to counteract the ideology of conservation. These include the 'remediation' of objects in the collection, fieldwork in the museum, and opening up spaces for work, production and research that go beyond storage and exhibition.

This podcast features excerpts from Ben Vida's "Tracers" mix
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