Over de rol van kunst in een globaliserende samenleving

Framer Framed

Wayne Modest

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Wayne Modest is Director of Content National Museum of World Cultures. He is also professor of Material Culture and Critical Heritage Studies (by special appointment) in the faculty of humanities at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (VU). Modest was previously, head of the curatorial department at the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam; Keeper of Anthropology at the Horniman Museum in London, and Director of the Museums of History and Ethnography in Kingston, Jamaica.

He has held visiting scholar positions at the Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University and the School for Museums Studies, New York University. Wayne Modest’s work is driven by a concern for more historically contingent ways of understanding the present, especially in relation to material culture/museum collections. His research interests include issues of belonging and displacement; material mobilities; histories of (ethnographic) collecting and exhibitionary practices; difficult/contested heritage (with a special focus on slavery, colonialism and post-colonialism); Caribbean Thought. More recently Modest has been researching and publishing on heritage and citizenship in Europe with special attention for urban life, and on ethnographic museums and questions of redress/repair.

  • Some of his publications include: Museums and Communities: Curators, Collections, Collaborations (Bloomsbury Academic Publishers, ed. with Viv Golding, 2013); Museums, Heritage and International Development (Routledge, ed. with Paul Basu, 2013); Victorian Jamaica (Duke University Press, ed. with Tim Barringer, 2018).

Agenda


Symposium: Now You See Me
De trotserende werelden van zwarte vrouwen tijdens de Atlantische slavenhandel en contractarbeid
Rondetafelgesprek: Tanah Merdeka
Rondetafelgesprek met onderzoekers en curatoren van verschillende kunstmusea en -instellingen in het perspectief van Taring Padi's tentoonstelling, Tanah Merdeka.
Symposium: (un)Common Grounds - Reflecting on documenta fifteen
Een twee daags symposium georganiseerd door Framer Framed, Akademie van Kunsten & het Van Abbemuseum
Atelier KITLV: Kucini, kallu, kakkus - Creolising India Across the Oceans
De creolisering van India over de oceanen heen
Symposium: Declassified - How to Un/Engender the Ethnographic Object?
Over de (historische) constructie van gender en seksualiteit binnen het museale etnografische collectiebeleid.

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