I agree, it is great to see restitution go from fringe idea 20 years ago to unfolding story today.
There's great work in this direction by Ariella Azoulay, a historian of photography who says the image belongs to the person in it, so give it back. She is dead serious about that, in a way that directly threatens the so-called "universal / aka imperial / museums." On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 9:52 PM Molly Hankwitz <mollyhankw...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi > I am frequently cranky about US and Europe and have Europe envy but that > might be nostalgic, but today I find this article below on this big show > opening in the Netherlands about artifacts stolen from colonial people and > the whole thing about giving them back...and I’m following this story with > great interest. I had read about the Dutch govt giving back stuff they’d > pillaged. Just as assists are becoming so invisible, right? > > > I teach in Art History and the post-colonial discourse has only just begun > to heat up after last summer and the civil rights movement. Kathy High had > sent me a document called Decentering Whiteness and I’ve shared it to my > colleagues. Its’s focused upon design. But, wondering what other strategies > are being used in your worlds to counteract Western imperialist history? > > Maybe there are more bridges between our continents...all this scholarship > about the slave trade links us undisputedly, and now to think that BLM > would be influential Holland. I’m sorry if that is no longer the name. I > have often been jealous that European countries are able to change their > names. > > Molly > > > > https://apnews.com/article/europe-race-and-ethnicity-slavery-global-trade-health-bc419a8e4b3c5abed828378ced37fca8 > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
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