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    Through contemporary artworks and academic research, the artists and scholars involved in the exhibition project approach the question of how to make objects—which currently reside in institutions within the global North—present again in contemporary Kenya.

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What did a Meru bride wear to her wedding?

The symbolic shedding of culture was commonplace. When Pope Pius XI organized his exposition, boxes upon boxes were shipped to Rome. The content of these boxes were objects, together with comprehensive notes on their attendant histories and how they had been acquired.

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 Black Study: Of Absence, return and renewal

Throughout modern history, Africans have struggled to claim ownership over the use and circulation of their own cultural objects. Bluntly put, Africans don’t profit from black cultural production within the current economic system. 

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Classical, Contemporary and Early Music 2020
 The year the show went online

As in many other areas of society, the coronavirus pandemic took a heavy toll on German musical life in 2020. Patrick Hahn recalls what did happen last year all the same in the classical, contemporary and early music scenes.

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Invisible Inventories

Through contemporary artworks and academic research, the artists and scholars involved in the exhibition project approach the question of how to make objects—which currently reside in institutions within the global North—present again in contemporary Kenya.

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