Author: Clémentine Deliss
Publisher: Poodle
ISBN: 9788412583359
Binding: paperback
Pages: 168
Format: 13´8 x 21 cm
Spanish Language
A significant proportion of European museums have forged their collections based on colonial and plundering dynamics. Created to control how we look at and relate to the Other, ethnographic museums accumulate thousands of artefacts torn from their places of origin and whose original creators have been ignored.
In this passionate account, cultural historian and curator Clémentine Deliss mixes autobiography with rigorous (and sharp) theses that question hegemonic cultural discourses. The Metabolic Museum tells the story of what happens when an attempt is made to transform one of these institutions—the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, of which Deliss was director—into a living organism where contemporary thinkers and artists can translate, reinterpret and provide new meanings to everything that a museum holds.
