Decentring The Museum Contemporary Art Institutions And Colonial Legacies

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Nina M ntmann's timely book extends the decolonisation debate to the institutions of contemporary art. In a thoughtfully articulated text illustrated with pertinent examples of best practice she argues that to play a crucial role within increasingly diverse societies museums and galleries of contemporary art have a responsibility to 'decentre their institutions removing from their collections exhibition policies and infrastructures a deeply embedded Euro - centric cultural focus with roots in the history of colonialism. In this she argues they can learn from the example both of anthropological museums (such as the Rautenstrauch - Joest - Museum in Cologne) which are engaged in debates about the colonial histories of their collections about trauma and repair and of small - scale art spaces (such as La Colonie Paris ANO Institute of Arts and Knowledge Accra or Savvy Contemporary Berlin) which have the flexibility based on informal infrastructures to initiate different kinds of conversation and collective knowledge production in collaboration with indigenous or local diasporic communities from the Global South. For the first time this book identifies the influence that anthropological museums and small art spaces can exert on museums of contemporary art to initiate a process of decentring.
Title: Decentring The Museum Contemporary Art Institutions And Colonial Legacies
Author(s): Moentmann Nina
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Barcode: 9781848225503
Pages: 144 Pages, 20 Illustrations, Black And White
Publication Date: 12/15/2023
Series: New Directions in Contemporary Art
Category: National Liberation & Independence, Post-Colonialism