In the auditorium of the Tieranatomisches Theater (Veterinary Anatomy Theater), the “Theatre of Memory” forms an extraordinary microtonal ensemble: 70 spherical, colourfully illuminated loudspeakers 'listen' to each other and excite or inhibit each…
Dear colleagues,
We invite you to submit paper proposals for our conference "Music, Archives and Politics in East and West Berlin since 1963: Cosmopolitan, International, Global," which will take place in Berlin 3-5 July 2024. The call for papers…
This performative installation aims to challenge the static nature of object display within ethnological museums and reevaluate the way audiences interact with cultural artifacts. By embracing movement, performance, critical voices, and alternative…
As part of my master’s thesis, my project interprets a queering strategy implemented by the museum. From June to September 2023, I conducted field research by attending the Ethnologisches Museum’s guided tour Beyond the Norm: A queer look at gender…
Stumbling upon unhelpful information on individual museumized objects-subjects and their diminishing classification within the museum space, we propose an alternative: Our project endeavours to illuminate an intricate web of relations among various…
When we enter an ethnological museum in the European West, we tend to forget that the objects we see were connected to emotions while in use by their former owners. One curatorial specificity of the Kunstkammer, the first art collection in the…
A castle standing next to museum island with a vast collection of objects is submerged in water one day. What is left? Unfortunately—nothing, except for a metaphor. What happens when the idea of producing “non-word-units” meets the guiding metaphor…
The Berlin University Alliance (BUA) cordially invites all members of the four partner universities in the design of a joint format as part of Objective 2 "Fostering Knowledge Exchange". An inter- and transdisciplinary exhibition project with "Water"…
