“Do museums today continue to be appropriate spaces for the presentation, documentation, mediation and archiving, or even for interaction between observer and object?” Museal Episode brings museum directors, curators and professionals in related fields from several countries together in an exchange. The four-day meeting will take place four times over a period of three years in different countries and is set to develop new models of presentation, mediation and dialogue. This iteration staged in Johannesburg and Cape Town will further engage some of the questions posed at the first meeting in Salvador da Bahia (Brazil) and Santa Cruz/ La Paz (Bolivia): looking at ways to decolonize and democratize museums, as well as thinking through community involvement in such endeavors. The talk is a way for the public to engage with the closed session meetings.
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