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About The ARCHIVE
The TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE is a digital archive for decolonial knowledge production, where Objects are the starting point for polyperspectival narratives that illuminate different aspects of history. The TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE brings together a range of Objects that tell the story of colonial violence or that witnessed European cultural history.
It is an ARCHIVE that makes no claim to completeness - a living archive and an ongoing expression of freedom through creation, collaboration, and renewal. The archive hopes to draw audiences in and allow creative play and exploration of African Knowledge systems, breaking with eurocentric perspectives.
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TALKING OBJECTS Playground
This Playground allows us to make inspiring mosaics that connect objects and knowledge items. The Playground is the archive’s offering to breathe life and colour into its collection, while holding space for the heavy realities and histories that the items carry.
TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE invites us to infuse play in our learning and knowledge production by stringing together new stories from our interactions with the ARCHIVE’s collections.
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A growing network of artists and scholars is emerging from the African continent and diaspora. They are the forerunners of decolonial, experimental, and imaginative exploration of African knowledge systems. The TALKING OJECTS ARCHIVE is the product of collaboration between a large number of participants - living and practising in the global south and global north. Among them are curators, culture workers, artists and researchers.
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The TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE has been developed in cooperation with African Digital Heritage (Nairobi), Visual Intelligence (Berlin) and a variety of thinkers and artists experimenting with text, images, audio, and video, to create their own cosmologies of Objects in the digital space. The objects were made available to us by the Musée Théodore Monod/IFAN (Dakar), the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum (Cologne), the Museum Angewandte Kunst (Frankfurt), the GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde (Leipzig) and the Museum Europäischer Kulturen (Berlin). The development of the ARCHIVE is accompanied and nourished by the artistic research project TALKING OBJECTS LAB www.talkingobjectslab.org
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TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE was initiated by Isabel Raabe. Curatorial team: Chao Tayiana Maina, Mahret Ifeoma Kupka, Isabel Raabe, Malick Ndiaye
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