Fibres, Threads and Fabrics Conference

Understanding material cultures from the African Diaspora is to recognise and appreciate how different objects, designs and structures create and impact the experiences of the myriad communities in which they form the building blocks. The theme for CIAD’s second dress conference focuses on how the development and use of cloth signify aspects of material culture within African Diaspora communities.

For further information at CIAD Biennial Dress Conference website.

As part of the Webinar Series "Global Provenance. Revisiting Appropriated Heritage in the Light of Inclusive Partnerships?"

For further information at Palais de Rumine website.

Program

10.00-11.30 (UTC+1)

Collaborating: For Whose Benefit?

Modératrice/Chair : Noémie Etienne, SNSF Professor at the University of Bern
 
Les participant.e.s du panel proposent de questionner la légitimité et la pertinence des relations établies ou convoitées entre les institutions gardiennes d’un patrimoine anthropologique ou ethnographique, et les héritiers culturels de celui-ci.

The participants of the panel propose to question the legitimacy and relevance of the relations established or expected between museums with anthropological or ethnographic collections, and the cultural owners of this heritage. 

• Le traitement médiatique des collections des musées d’ethnographie : visibilisation de la recherche et enjeux géopolitiques. Audrey Doyen, Attachée temporaire d’enseignement et de recherche à l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle

• Revisiting the history of the ethnographic collection in Cape Town, South Africa. The changing relationship between museum curators and representatives of indigenous populations. Damiana Otoiu, Assistant Professor at the Political Science Department, University of Bucharest

• Haunting Simulacra: the Presence and Evolving Meanings of Colonial Era Body, Bone and Facial Casts of Indigenous Peoples in Western Museum Collections. Paul Turnbull, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Tasmania

• La resocialisation des biens patrimoniaux comme alternative aux restitutions. Honoré Tchatchouang Ngoupeyou, doctorant Cergy Paris Université

14.00-15.30/2.00-3.30PM (UTC+1)

Returning: From Causes to Consequences

Modérateur/Chair : Marc-André Renold (Professeur et directeur du Centre du droit de l'art, Université de Genève)

Des enjeux des politiques gouvernementales aux initiatives internationales de recherche en provenance, les participant.e.s discutent des circonstances de la restitution patrimoniale et de ses répercussions.

From governmental issues to international provenance research initiatives, the panel participants discuss the circumstances of heritage restitution and its repercussions.

• Retour et traitement des biens patrimoniaux en Belgique : Dénonciations, frilosité, bonnes pratiques et évitement. Yasmina Zian, chargée de la rédaction du rapport sur la question de la restitution des patrimoines culturels en Belgique commandé à l’Académie royale de Belgique

• Current Developments in the Netherlands: Advice on a National Policy Framework for Colonial Collections. Jos van Beurden, Senior Researcher, Free University, Amsterdam

• Contemporary Narratives on Ownership and Convenient Usages of the Provenance Yemen’s Past. A Perspective on Values and Archives of South Arabian Heritage. Alexander Nagel, Assistant Professor at the State University of New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology

• "Demuseumification" and the return of Cultural Objects. Donna Yates, Associate Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at Maastricht University, and Pierre Losson, Post-Doc, Graduate Center of the City University of New York

As part of the Webinar Series "Global Provenance. Revisiting Appropriated Heritage in the Light of Inclusive Partnerships?"

For further information at Palais de Rumine website

Program

14.00-15.30/2.00-3.30PM (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 et Audrey Peraldi, Independent researchers

• Recovering lost messages - Performative objects of African art from the „Ceaușescu” Collection. Horia Iova, PhD Student, 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 der Kulturen, Basel

16.00-17.30/4.00-5.30PM (UTC+1)

Creating and Exhibiting: Reparation in Action?

Modératrice/Chair: Senam Okudzeto (Artiste)

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 (direction), Beatriz Navarro (Choreography) and Samson Ogiamien (sculpture and performance)

As part of a Webinar Series "Global Provenance. Revisiting Appropriated Heritage in the Light of Inclusive Partnerships?"

For further information at Palais de Rumine website.

Program

• 13.30-13.45: Ouverture. Mots d'introductions des organisateurs de la conférence et de la modératrice du panel Esther Tisa Francini (Responsable des archives et de la recherche en provenance, Museum Rietberg, Zürich)

• 13.45-14.05: Koloniales Erbe un/sichtbar machen (Making colonial heritage in/visible), Léonie Süess (Assistante de recherche R+D, Haute École d'art, Zürich)

• 14.05-14.25: La collection égyptienne du Musée d’Yverdon et région. Questions de provenance et légitimité, Corinne Sandoz (Conservatrice, Musée d’Yverdon et région)

• 14.25-14.45: Maurice Bastian et la collection australienne du MEG. Recherche en provenance et collaborations avec les communautés sources, Roberta Colombo-Dougoud (Conservatrice de la collection Océanie, Musée d'ethnographie, Genève)

• 14.45-15.05: Questions

• 15.05-15.20: Pause-café 

• 15.20-15.40: The Transnational Benin Initiative: Provenance research and cooperation between Nigeria and Switzerland, Michaela Oberhofer (Cheffe du service des collections et conservatrice Afrique et Océanie, Museum Rietberg, Zürich)

• 15.40-16.00: Circulation internationale d’un dispositif expographique créé en Suisse : la « vitrine Gabus », Bernard Knodel (Conservateur adjoint, Musée d'ethnographie, Neuchâtel) et Daniel Sciboz (Designer et chargé de cours, Hautes écoles d'art)

• 16.00-16.20: Anachronisme et militantisme dans l’espace muséal. Les témoins anciens de l’histoire coloniale (XVIe-XVIIIe s.) dans les collections suisses, Sara Petrella (Post doctorante, Centre interuniversitaire d’études et de recherches autochtones, Université du Québec à Montréal)

• 16.20-16.40: Questions

• 16.40-17.00: Table-ronde avec l’ensemble des intervenants

For further information at the Material Culture in Transit website