Wayne Modest
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).
- Het Parool - Wayne Modest over kolonialisme en het teruggeven van kunst
- Human - Dekolonisatie is een voortdurend proces
- Research Centre for Material Culture - RCMC
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Agenda
Symposium: Shapeshifters
Eendaags symposium over de ethische en culturele implicaties van collecties die zijn samengesteld door middel van koloniale plundering en exploitatie
Boekpresentatie: Inheritance – A Speculative Ethnography of Evidence
Boekpresentatie in samenwerking met The Research Center for Material Culture over de erfenis van koloniale structuren en de middelen om er tegen te vechten.
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.
Magazine
Koloniale geschiedenis / Institutionele kritiek / Omstreden erfgoed /
Institutionele kritiek / Global Art History /
Symposium: Collecting Geographies - Global Programming and Museums of Modern Art
Institutionele kritiek /
Symposium: The Future of Ethnographic Museums
Caraiben / Diaspora / Migratie /
Symposium: Sustainable Art Communities - Creativity and Policy in the Transnational Caribbean
Collectiebeleid / Book Launch /
Symposium: Popular imagination - fiction with a message
Koloniale geschiedenis / Collectiebeleid / Institutionele kritiek /
Symposium: Colonial Nostalgia
Institutionele kritiek / Gedeeld erfgoed / Het levende archief / Koloniale geschiedenis /
Pressing Matter: Ownership, Value and the Question of Colonial Heritage in Museums
Collectiebeleid / Institutionele kritiek / Queer /
Verslag: How to Un/Engender the Ethnographic Object?
Koloniale geschiedenis / Fotografie / Indonesië / Institutionele kritiek /