Why is the museum a topic in the current context?

 Françoise Vergès asks if we would not imagine something else for the 21st century that can answer current challenges – climate disaster, neoliberalism, imperialism, financialisation, increasing poverty, new forms of looting and destruction of art – that would not be on the hegemonic model of the Western museum.

In A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum, Françoise Vergès (writer, antiracist feminist, and independent curator) argues that the decolonisation of the Western museum is impossible if we take the process of decolonisation seriously.

It does not mean that the struggles for social, racial, and gender justice and for the return of stolen, looted art from Africa, Asia, Oceania, the Caribbean and the Americas are not important, urgent and necessary.

This event is organised by the Decolonising Collective Leiden.

 

 

 

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