TY - JOUR
T1 - Trafficking Vague Cosmological Boundaries
T2 - Towards Knowing Experiential Relationality in Museum Epistemics
AU - Verran, Helen
PY - 2021/12/1
Y1 - 2021/12/1
N2 - The core of this article is an ethnography of the concept of 'artwork'. The experiential element is set in the galleries of Berlin's Bode Museum during the 'Beyond Compare. Art from Africa' Exhibition’ (2017-2019). The ethnographer is presented as suffering epistemic disconcertment as, across four visits, she attempted to read the effect of bringing art objects expressing disparate cosmologies into close proximity. On her last visit the voice of a single artwork made by, and stolen from, the Bwiti people of Gabon last century, amplified by the very discordance generated in the exhibition, rang out in generating concert.
AB - The core of this article is an ethnography of the concept of 'artwork'. The experiential element is set in the galleries of Berlin's Bode Museum during the 'Beyond Compare. Art from Africa' Exhibition’ (2017-2019). The ethnographer is presented as suffering epistemic disconcertment as, across four visits, she attempted to read the effect of bringing art objects expressing disparate cosmologies into close proximity. On her last visit the voice of a single artwork made by, and stolen from, the Bwiti people of Gabon last century, amplified by the very discordance generated in the exhibition, rang out in generating concert.
KW - Bode Museum
KW - ethnography
KW - African art
U2 - 10.14361/zfk-2021-150212
DO - 10.14361/zfk-2021-150212
M3 - Article
VL - 15
SP - 149
EP - 164
JO - Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften
JF - Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften
SN - 2197-9103
IS - 2
ER -