Voices | Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
From March to May of 2024 four Live Speakers from the Grassi Museum of Ethnography have investigated the connection between the museum of ethnology and the community in the past and present. They have developed works of art reflecting their own actions as Live Speakers at the museum.
Musquiqui Chihying and Gregor Kasper’s film “The Guestbook” can currently be seen in our series on China as part of the “Counterpoints” project here on voices. The curator of the series, Mia Yu, interviewed them for us.
On 13 October 2022, the Albertinum of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden hosted the conference “Revolutionary Romances: Into the Cold – Alternative Artistic Trajectories into (Post-)Communist Europe.” A report by Julia Tatiana Bailey and Christopher Williams-Wynn.
How is what we commonly call "global" being shaped, and what part do museums actually play in this process? The term "worlding" is used to describe the ongoing formation and reshaping of the global as a multi-perspective process in which a wide variety of regional positions are involved. This summer, a conference titled "Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation (WPC)" took place at the Japanisches Palais, which dealt with the museum contributions to the globalization process as understood according to this concept.