Webinars

21 janvier 2021, 17.00, virtuel
January 21th, 5.00pm, virtual (UTC+1)

Keynote InterviewKristen Carpenter
The United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples-EMRIP (Provisional title)
Modératrice/Chair : Carine Ayélé Durand (Conservatrice en cheffe, Musée d’ethnographie de Genève)

28 janvier 2021, virtuel/January 28th, virtual

14.00-15.00/2.00-3.00pm (UTC+1)
Pratiquer la recherche en provenance/Practicing Provenance Research
Modérateur/Chair: Emmanuel Kasarhérou (Président, Musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac)

A l’appui d’un corpus d’étude spécifique, les participant.e.s du panel développent différents aspects méthodologiques de la recherche en provenance, ses objectifs, ses périmètres et ses prolongements.

Through a specific corpus of study, the panel participants develop different methodological aspects of provenance research, its purposes, its perimeters and its developments.

  • Provenances et pedigrees : documentation entre marché et musée. Marion Bertin, doctorante, Ecole du louvre & Université de La Rochelle.
  • Methods and Challenges of Conducting Provenance Research on South Asian Art. Najiba Choundhury, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington.
  • Bronzen und Elfenbeinarbeiten aus dem Königtum Benin in Schweizer Museen. Andreas Schlothauer Audrey Peraldi, Independent researchers.
  • Recovering lost messages - Performative objects of African art from the „Ceaușescu” Collection. Horia Iova, PhD Sudent, University of Bucharest.
  • Adventures in "Paradise". The collection of Lucas Staehelin and Theo Meier from the Marquesas Islands/French Polynesia at the Museum der Kulturen Basel. Beatrice Voirol, Curator, Museum of Cultures, Basel

16.00-17.00/4.00-5.00pm (UTC+1)

Créer et Exposer : des actions réparatrices ? Creating and Exhibiting : Reparation in action?
Modérateur.rice/Chair : en attente de confirmation/pending confirmation

La création contemporaine et la mise en exposition sont questionnées par les participant.e.s comme les pratiques médiatrices d’une recherche en provenance engagée.
Contemporary creation and exhibition are discussed by the panel participants as the mediating practices of a decolonial provenance-based research. 

  • The Museum of European Normality: Provenance Research, Community Museums, and Practices of Display. Ana Bilbao, Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of York
  • The role of contemporary African art in exorcising colonial debt. Mary Corrigall, Independent researcher
  • Patrimonialization of indigenous textiles and institutional healing in Guatemala. María Iñigo Clavo, Assistant Professor at the Open University of Catalonia
  • The artistic project “Iyagbon’s Mirror” dealing with the provenance and restitution subject. Juri Caneiro and Samson Ogiamien, Directeurs artistiques