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Session 5: Decolonial Museum Interventions in the Netherlands and Indonesia
Panel (Paper) Presentations
Session Description
This panel brings together a range of perspectives to consider several different examples of decolonial museum interventions. We define decolonial museum interventions as efforts by persons outside the formal context of museums to disrupt museum narratives and collections in critical ways that take up the legacies of coloniality. Our case studies include an exhibition on the colonial era plantation workers exhibited at Van Abbemuseum (Netherlands) analysed by Eclair and a new anti-colonial museum in Indonesia called the Multatuli Museum analysed by McGregor and an exhibition on the contested colonial plaster casts from Nias exhibited at the Museum Pusaka Nias, Indonesia analysed by the curator Boonstra. The final case study reflects on artistic intervention drawing on decolonial and local knowledge to contest colonial knowledge production including a piece created by Albaquni that has been exhibited in different contexts analysed by the artist.