museology and anticolonial strategies

on Bruno Brulon

Dates: November 21st and 28th, December 5th, 12th and 19th
Fridays
Hour: 18h to 20h
Duration: 05 meetings
Audience: general interested parties
Investment: R$ 350,00 + fees

Online course
Live, via video conferencing platform
Recorded classes available for a limited time only
Course includes certificate at the end

The course offers a theoretical and practical overview of the application of the concept of coloniality (Aníbal Quijano) and the notion of decoloniality (Walter Mignolo) to the contemporary challenges of museology and curation in Brazil.

Starting with an introduction to decolonial and postcolonial thought, the classes will provide a methodological framework for critical and anticolonial curatorial practice. Notions of participation, co-creation, and critical fabulation (Saidiya Hartman) will be activated through experimental examples that defy coloniality.

The course's main objective is to provide conceptual and methodological foundations for the conscious and critical practice of curating in museum institutions, guided by the exercise of human rights, social justice, and ethical parameters that reflect these values. The target audience is individuals interested in decolonial, postcolonial, and anticolonial debates and their practical applications in museums, exhibitions, and the arts and Brazilian culture in its broadest sense.

Agenda

Lesson 1: Inheriting Coloniality: Towards Anticolonial Curation

• Introduction to the concept of “coloniality” and Latin American decolonial thought.
• Theoretical overview of decolonial and postcolonial thoughts and their influences on museology.
• Applications in anticolonial curatorial practices.

Class 2: Decoloniality as a practice

• Introduction to the concept of decoloniality (W. Mignolo).
• Practical developments of decolonial thinking.
• Anticolonial criticism and museums.

Class 3: Colonial Collections and Curatorial Repair

• Theoretical and ethical contributions on reparatory practices in museums.
• Restitution, repatriation and the impossible return.
• Case studies: Tupinambá cloaks and the Nosso Sagrado collection.

Class 4: Participation and co-creation

• Principles of co-curation and co-creation.
• “Critical fabulation” as an anticolonial tool (S. Hartman).
• Case studies: Dja Guatá Porã (MAR) and Brazilian Stories (MASP) exhibitions.

Lesson 5: Is an anti-colonial museum possible?

• The anticolonial museum: ideas, methods and action.
• Practical activity and debate.

Bruno Brulon

Bruno Brulon Soares is a museologist and anthropologist, and a professor at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. From 2019 to 2022, he was President of the International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM) and is co-chair of the Standing Committee on the Definition of a Museum of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). His most recent book, The Anticolonial Museum (Routledge, 2023), investigates the rhetoric of decolonization in museology and its political and material consequences in Europe and Latin America. His research interests focus on experimental museologies, community museums, and the political uses of museums and heritage. He currently directs the Institute of Museums, Heritage, and Society at the University of St Andrews.

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