Why do the Archives archive? A journey from the hunko to the counter-ethnography and back
- A complex artistic research on the theme of cultural heritage and (neo)colonial processes of material and immaterial expropriation. Starting from the encounter with a phonographic relic at the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv, the artist embarks on a journey to her own roots embodied in the practice of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé. In the form of a theoretical treatise, an archive (photos,A complex artistic research on the theme of cultural heritage and (neo)colonial processes of material and immaterial expropriation. Starting from the encounter with a phonographic relic at the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv, the artist embarks on a journey to her own roots embodied in the practice of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé. In the form of a theoretical treatise, an archive (photos, diagrams, maps, newspaper clippings, letters, documents), as well as a sound performance in the public space of the city of Weimar, several theoretical and performative elements are brought together in this transmedia artistic research that proposes a true decolonial practice.…
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| Document Type: | Master's Thesis |
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| Author: | MFA Suelen PessoaORCiD |
| DOI (Cite-Link): | https://doi.org/10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4328Cite-Link |
| URN (Cite-Link): | https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20210112-43280Cite-Link |
| Advisor: | Professor Danica DakicGND, PhD Nina GraeffGND, MA Leno Veras |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2021/01/09 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2020 |
| Date of final exam: | 2020/10/08 |
| Release Date: | 2021/01/12 |
| Publishing Institution: | Bauhaus-Universität Weimar |
| Granting Institution: | Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Fakultät Kunst und Gestaltung |
| Institutes and partner institutions: | Fakultät Kunst und Gestaltung / Freie Kunst |
| Tag: | Artistic Research; Brazil; Counter-ethnography; Museology; artistic research; decolonisation; memoy; museum; visual arts |
| GND Keyword: | Künstlerische Forschung; Museumskunde; Ethnologie; Candomblé; Brasilien |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
| 700 Künste und Unterhaltung | |
| BKL-Classification: | 02 Wissenschaft und Kultur allgemein |
| 06 Information und Dokumentation | |
| 20 Kunstwissenschaften | |
| 73 Ethnologie, Volkskunde | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons 4.0 - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell (CC BY-NC 4.0) |