Queering Alfred Gell's art nexus conceptualising non-normative relations and queer methods in the art and ethnological museum context
Ethnographic collections and museums displaying them are currently facing a crisis of representation which is deeply political. Negotiations mainly take place on a national and institutional level. Yet, in order to deal with conflicts and problems that arise around ethnographic collections in a way...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Ikonotheka |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Ethnographic collections and museums displaying them are currently facing a crisis of representation which is deeply political. Negotiations mainly take place on a national and institutional level. Yet, in order to deal with conflicts and problems that arise around ethnographic collections in a way that allows for and affirms new relationships being formed outside the realm of representational power, new perspectives and methodological tools from a grassroots level are needed. Intersectional approaches and a renewed attention to relations around ethnographic objects, especially a rethinking of the categories "artwork" versus "ethnographica", offer a promising route for engaging with heritage as a common ground. As such, they may enable relational politics outside the centres of power. A "queering" of anthropologist Alfred Gell’s art nexus model can be instrumental for the study of queer (non-normative) relations around artworks, including so-called ethnographic objects. The paper proposes an understanding of queerness as a method in the art and museum context, informed by the anthropology of art and kinship, queer studies, and museum studies. This methodology-in-the-making should be part of a toolkit with which researchers and arts practitioners will be able to understand and actively co-create queer relations around objects in ethnographic collections and beyond. |
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| Beschreibung: | Illustrationen |
| ISSN: | 0860-5769 |