This workshop is aimed at scholars and cultural practitioners (such as curators and museum educators) within the fields of cultural memory, museums and cultural heritage, who are working on or interested in the topic of ecological violence and its complex entanglements with other forms of violence – such as colonialism and genocide –, both in the past and in the present.
The workshop includes presentations by curators and artists about recent exhibitions that address this topic.
The presentations will be followed by a moderated conversation with the rest of the group about questions such as:
- What are the challenges when exhibiting topics like colonial or ecological violence?;
- What kinds of strategies (affective, discursive, etc.) are employed to generate impact amongst the visitors?;
- What kinds of materialities are used to tell these stories?;
- How do the institutions themselves reflect on their implication in these histories?
- What kind of public and school programming is/was developed and how is the impact of such initiatives assessed?
- What kinds of future collaborations between curators and scholars could be envisioned around this topic?
