The activist museum debate: news from the Arctic, online 20.9.
We are pleased to invite you to attend the next "The activist museum: going deeper" debate. It will take place online, on 20 September, from 7 to 8pm CET.
Our special guests are Kirstine Møller and Randi Godø. Kirstine is a Kalaaleq (Greenlandic Inuk) cultural researcher, heritage professional and archaeologist. Randi is an art historian and curator at Nasjonalmuseet, Norway. Participation is free, but please register here. The conversation will take place in English.
Why this debate?
At the IETM conference that took place in Aarhus, Denmark, in June 2023, we heard for the first time the term “green colonialism”. Through different speeches and interventions coming from colleagues working in cultural organisations in the Nordic region we became aware of how certain policies aiming at promoting environmental sustainability might be damaging ways of life that have always been sustainable and from which we can learn. We were unpleasantly surprised at realising how little we know about these issues, which are rarely or never “news” in other countries, although they concern our common European territory.
Kirstine was a speaker at the IETM conference and was working at the time for the National Museum and Archive of Greenland. Randi was the curator of the “Pile o´Sápmi Supreme”, by Northern Sami artist Máret Ánne Sara. This installation, presented at the National Museum in Oslo, Norway, is made of 400 reindeer skulls and was much discussed at the conference. You may find out more on the artist’s website.
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Kirstine Eiby Møller (she/her) is a Kalaaleq (Greenlandic Inuk) cultural researcher, heritage professional and archaeologist. Having grown up as the product of a cultural encounter (Kalaaleq Inuk and Dane), she has nurtured an interest in identity narratives, entangled histories, cultural encounters, and colonialism in the Arctic. Having worked in the museum field since 2009, she has experience with curatorial planning, dissemination programming and actively works to be part of a safe space where complex histories and feelings are discussed.
Randi Godø is an art historian and curator at Nasjonalmuseet, Norway, who is specialising in collecting, researching and exhibiting contemporary art. Dedicated to the study of the disciplines of contemporary sculpture and installation art of the 20th and 21st Century, Godø has curated several exhibitions of contemporary art. Godø co-curated the Nasjonalmuseet’s opening exhibition “I Call it Art” in 2022. In recent years, the research of interest has been the art field’s inclusion and exclusion mechanisms and representation of gender and diversity in art collections and art museums.
Best regards,
Maria Vlachou
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