التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
KUNSTBEGREBETS KOLONIALE KLASSIFIKATIONER TIL FORHANDLING PÅ MUSEER I SYDAFRIKA. (Danish) |
| Alternate Title: |
From Artefact to Art: Renegotiating Colonial Classifications in South African Museums. (English) |
| المؤلفون: |
Nielsen, Vibe |
| المصدر: |
Kulturstudier; jun2021, Issue 1, p1-24, 24p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
ART exhibitions, CULTURAL values, COMMERCIAL art galleries, MUSEUM curators, GLOBAL North-South divide, MATERIAL culture, APARTHEID |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
AFRICA |
| Abstract (English): |
This article examines the consequences of expanding classificatory boundaries. Since the end of apartheid, objects formerly known as ethnographica are now largely found in art galleries and treated like objects of aesthetic rather than cultural historical value. I highlight how a number of contemporary South African curators reject this assumed valorisation that the objects supposedly gain when they are exhibited in the realm of the aesthetics. However, in arguing that contemporary South African artists are just as contemporary, experimental, conceptual and non-traditional as their counterparts from the Global North, the curators let go of an important part of Africa's artistic history. If so-called traditional African objects are not to be displayed in art galleries, where then, is there room for art forms that are rooted in traditions from Africa before European contact? This article argues that colonial distinctions between art and artefact might be challenged, if curators and museum professionals start highlighting that all objects, no matter who made them, possess both aesthetic and cultural historical value. In this way museums might be able to look beyond colonial classificatory practices and let go of the hierarchy between objects that the material culture of Africa has endured during the past century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Abstract (Danish): |
Siden apartheids fald i starten af 1990erne, har genstande tidligere klassificeret som etnografiske artefakter, i stigende grad fundet vej ind på kunstgallerierne i Sydafrika. Her behandles de som kunstværker, der fremhæves for deres æstetiske kvaliteter, fremfor de kulturhistoriske kontekster, de er skabt i. I denne artikel, der bygger på feltarbejde foretaget på museer og kunstgallerier i Cape Town og Johannesburg i perioden 2016-2018, undersøger jeg konsekvenserne ved denne ekspansion af klassifikatoriske grænser og fremhæver, hvordan en række sydafrikanske kuratorer afviser ekspansionens påståede valorisering: For dem er genstandenes indlemmelse i kategorien kunst ikke en valorisering, men snarere en måde hvorpå skaberne bag såkaldt traditionel afrikansk kunst fortsat eksotiseres. Men hvor er der plads til såkaldt traditionel kunst fra Afrika, hvis ikke på kunstmuseer som Johannesburg Art Gallery og Cape Towns nye Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa? Hvor er der plads til afrikansk kunst, der ikke er printet, malet eller fremstillet fortrinsvist med æstetisk konsumering for øje? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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