Practicing Freedom - The Afterlives of Objects

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Practicing Freedom - The Afterlives of Objects is an event by the Goethe-Institut Amsterdam and the Research Center for Material Culture.

In recent years, ongoing debates about the restitution of cultural heritage objects that were stolen within various colonial contexts have gained momentum in tandem with a general awareness about the prevalence of various social injustices throughout society. While these discussions have primarily involved scholars, academics and museum professionals, artists, activists and community members have also played an important role in reconfiguring and complicating the discourse around decoloniality, restitution and reparations. With The Afterlives of Objects we seek to inquire and interrogate publicly with and among different stakeholders, communities, artists and activist initiatives about the possibility of redress and awareness. By initiating this series of events, we seek to include different perspectives and positions to complicate and engage with (im)material culture, communities and spiritual realms with and among which these cultural heritage objects are intrinsically intertwined. This public conversation between<a href="https://www.materialculture.nl/en/about/wayne-modest" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Wayne Modest</a> (Director of Content National Museum of World Culture) and <a href="https://www.kulturwest.de/inhalt/nanette-snoep-ueber-migration-in-museen/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Nanette Snoep</a> (Director of the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum) with poetic intervention by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/quinsy.g/?hl=de" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Quinsy Gario</a> is the first public event that will take place within the context of Practicing Freedom project.In an attempt to add to this crucial discourse, we organized a workshop for the Practicing Freedom project in June of this year. The RCMC and the Goethe Institut had invited scholars, academics, museum professionals, artists, activists and community members to exchange ideas, strategies and reference points, through several interrelated themes that were discussed in a workshop environment. The workshop delved into questions of how we think about the care and placement of illegally obtained artefacts and cultural objects currently housed within European collections. It also looked into how decoloniality is activated across varied sites and among multiple temporalities. This was the second workshop in a series of events connected to the Practicing Freedom project, and took place at <a href="https://www.materialculture.nl/en/events/practicing-freedom" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">RCMC</a> and <a href="https://www.goethe.de/ins/nl/de/sta/ams.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Goethe-Institut</a> Amsterdam(the first workshop took place in London in March 2022).Practicing Freedom: Regarding Decoloniality and the Afterlife of Cultural Heritage Objects is developed and hosted in collaboration with the <a href="https://www.materialculture.nl/en/events/practicing-freedom" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Research Center for Material Culture</a> at the <a href="https://www.tropenmuseum.nl/nl/over-het-tropenmuseum/stichting-nationaal-museum-van-wereldculturen" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen</a>, initiated by the Goethe-Institut in cooperation with the French-German Cultural Funds, conceptualized and curated by the Artistic Directors <a href="https://www.materialculture.nl/en/about/amal-alhaag" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Amal Alhaag</a> and <a href="https://theglobalartproject.no/about/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Selene Wendt</a>.Image Credit: <a href="https://www.michelleeistrup.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Michelle Eistrup</a>, Ntanga Zuzu (All Suns Forever), Opening in Huts, 2019

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