Screening programme and discussion

This screening programme aims to untangle the pervasiveness of colonial violence in collecting practices and cultural heritage, and engage with ideas of care, repair and social justice. Deploying archival materials, the films included in the programme aim to deconstruct the colonial foundations of cultural institutions. Moving images have always been at the forefront of documenting collections of objects and artefacts —be that museum collections, archival materials or cultural practices. More recently, contemporary moving image artists have drawn on this documenting-classification-displaying impulse to propose new ways of looking at cultural and institutional practices. Departing from three moving image works, the programme addresses the potentialities of archival materials as artistic and curatorial resources to confront colonial extractive practices and reimagine the future social relevance of museums.

Beyond thinking about the collection objects and institutional infrastructures of the archives as agents of collective human memory, the films propose new ways of thinking through ideas of reparation and restitution in response to traumatic legacies of coloniality. The programme and post-screening conversation will develop a constructive critique of colonial attitudes in modern museology addressing forms of extractivism, cultural appropriation and the practice of smuggling, as well as methodologies of decolonial repair.

Films by: Nafis Fathollahzadeh, Onyeka Igwe, Hope Strickland

Curated by Mariana Cunha and Marianna Tsionki

Discussion with the curators moderated by Daniel GrúňThe event is part of the Towards Other Possible Artworlds program, curated by Judit Angel and Eliška Mazalanová.

Please note, this screening starts 6pm Central European Time.

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ERSTE Foundation is the main partner of tranzit.

Media partners:
Artalk.info, Flash Art CZ & SK, Kapitál, GoOut.net