CARING MATTERS CONFERENCE | Healing Materiality скачать в хорошем качестве

CARING MATTERS CONFERENCE | Healing Materiality

PANEL | Thursday 24 Sept | Zoom Webinar During the Caring Matters conference, as as part of the international collaborative research project TAKING CARE - Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums as Spaces of Care, the Research Center for Material Culture hosted a series of panels, workshop and conversations. This panel focused on confronting the deeply troubling and troubled histories of our ethnographic institutions, in the hope of fashioning decolonial and non-imperial futures. By taking these institutions as sites, as evidence, to explore the violent workings of colonialism, we want to try to inaugurate more just and equitable futures. This panel then engaged how ethnographic museums, with their violent histories, can, or rather must, learn to better care, by honoring the histories and ongoing aftermaths of such pain. We understand that we can probably never 'care well.' And, we would be tragically and disrespectfully remiss were we not to try. We must welcome caring as an inconclusive practice, which constantly demands that we nurture humility in our relationships to our museums' materialities: as objects, with histories, heritages, and communities. TAKING CARE is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. //SPEAKER Puawai Cairns www.materialculture.nl/en/events/caring-matters-healing-materialities