Wir laden herzlich am Donnerstag, den 03.11.2022 zu dem in englischer Sprach abgehaltenen Abendvortrag von Dr. Laura Osorio Sunnucks (SDCELAR, British Museum) im Rahmen des internationalen Workshops „Signs with Symbolic Character. Collections as a Mirror of Social Values“ ein. Sie wird digital zu “Museums and Impermanence: Contemporary Contexts in Curatorship” sprechen.
Donnerstag, 03.11.2022
19:00 Uhr
via Zoom
Übertragung: Geschwister-Scholl Platz 1, A017
Museums and Impermanence: Contemporary Contexts in Curatorship
In order to discuss the role of curatorial research and museums, I will consider the opportunities and tensions for projects that seek to to re-contextualise collections in terms of contemporary and future realities.
Among the Amazonian material at the British Museum are various collections acquired during the first two decades of the 20th century, as a result of colonial networks associated with the rubber boom genocide. This paper will discuss two quite different and discrete research projects developed since 2019 by the Santo Domingo Centre at the British Museum together with our collaborators in Colombia and Peru. The first considers a dolphin tooth necklace collected in 1903 by Eugène Robuchon, a French explorer commissioned by the rubber company, Casa Arana, to investigate and endorse the rubber tapping industry. This necklace was studied and narrated by Murui-Muina elders, Oscar Román and Alicia Sánchez, who concluded that it has a life-force and emphasised the importance of healing over international representation in collections engagement. The second project invited diverse authors from Latin America to narrate items through personal reveries and political positions. One of these authors, journalist and writer Joseph Zarate, worked with a feather headdress collected by Emilio Kanthack, a British consul in Brazil, who was the owner of another rubbing tapping company, Kanthack and Co. In his narrative, Zarate stressed the impermanence of both materials and memories, casting some doubt on historical object re-engagement.
Der Vortrag wird via Zoom im Hörsaal A017 im Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 übertragen. Im Anschluss laden wir alle herzlich ein dem gemeinsamen Abendessen des Workshops beizuwohnen. Über ein zahlreiches digitales Zuschalten/analoges Kommen würden wir uns sehr freuen.
Vortrag von Dr. Marcus Becker „Priapus and Praxeology - The Berlin Kunstkammer, or Collection Histories via Object Biographies”
Wir laden herzlich am Freitag, den 04.11.2022 zu dem Abendvortrag von Dr. Marcus Becker im Rahmen des internationalen Workshops „Signs with Symbolic Character. Collections as a Mirror of Social Values“ ein. Dieser wird zu Priapus and Praxeology. The Berlin Kunstkammer, or Collection Histories via Object Biographies” referieren.
Freitag, 04.11.2022
19:00 Uhr
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, A017
Eintritt frei
Priapus and
Praxeology
The Berlin Kunstkammer, or Collection Histories via Object Biographies
The former Kunstkammer of the Brandenburg-Prussian rulers can be considered as the nucleus of today’s Berlin museumscape – although this teleological perspective obscures the continuously changing history of this institution. The Berlin based research project A Window on Nature and Art, started in 2018, has tried to approach this history via histories – or stories, biographies, or itineraries of objects that were at one time or another items of the Kunstkammer. The paper aims to illustrate the practicability of such an approach and to show how the changing modes of perception, recording, and handling of a chosen example – a bronze statuette of Priapus – alter the ascribed properties of the object itself and shed light on the collection(s) and social contexts to which it once belonged.
Der Vortrag wird im Hörsaal A017 im Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 gehalten und via Zoom übertragen. Über ein zahlreiches digitales Zuschalten/analoges Kommen würden wir uns sehr freuen.
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