This activation of the objects/subjects addresses the copies of the looted and not yet returned. Reading to these figures rotating around the centre of an axis on which this time of return turns, Khadija picks up the book, whose shadow encases the object. The book is Der Königsweg and Psychologie de l’Art: Le Musée imaginaire by André Malraux, the figure in Lisl Ponger’s Read More
ERC artistic research project “REPATRIATES” and New Originals
From March 2021 the European Research Council will support me as PI with lots of collaborators on a five year project about the repatriation of culture from museums back to communities. We are working on contemporary art works that take the place of the "repatriates" and offer new originals. Please be in touch if you have ideas or want to contribute! Read More
ZKM exhibition
Critical Zones is an exhibition curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel at ZKM Karlsruhe screening my film made in New Zealand with Rangiwaho ongoing until 28.2.2021. Read more and watch the film here. Read More
Manifesta premieres Te Moana film
In the cinema La Criée - Théâtre National in Marseilles as part of Manifesta [click for link] from October 2nd, 2020. Since most of us can’t travel at all at present, it can also be seen online in Ocean Archive [click for link]. Ka nui te Aroha Read More
Productive Universals? The Aesthetics of Classification
New book released with ETH Zurich featuring my writing on Indigenous Taxonomy and the Aesthetics of Classification [link to text] in response to the thorny subject of universals Read More