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Indonesia Council Open Conference 2025
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Panel Decolonial Museum Interventions in the Netherlands and Indonesia

Organised Panel

Organised Panel

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Submission 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 an exhibition on the contested colonial plaster casts from Nias exhibited at the Museum Pusaka Nias, Indonesia analysed by the curator Boonstra. The two final case studies reflect on artistic interventions 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 and an artistic reflection on colonial injustice exhibited in the Transient Museum of a Thousand Conversations (Indonesia), analysed by McGregor.

Presenters

Presenters

Organised Panel Convenors

professor katharine mcgregor Ms - The Univeristy of Melbourne