The game Relooted, developed by the South African studio Nyamakop, offers a singular approach to the issue of cultural repatriation of African heritage. Set in the near future, the game is structured around a fictional narrative grounded in historical reality: the extraction, throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, of hundreds of African artifacts by colonial […]
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The systematic organization of knowledge derived from artistic and cultural objects constitutes both an epistemological and practical challenge of considerable complexity. These challenges are not merely technical; they are deeply entangled with political, cultural, and ideological dimensions. In the contemporary context of museological collection management, three foundational concepts emerge as structural pillars: taxonomy, ontology, and
Where digital interfaces flicker like ancestral bonfires, Zahy Tentehar rewrites colonial protocols in the Tenetehara language. A Guajajara artist-programmer, she does not “translate” cultures—she dismantles the syntax of power. Her work functions as an epistemological antivirus, infecting the operating system of contemporary art with forest commands—lines of code that disable cultural firewalls and restore original
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Decolonial curation proposes a critical review of traditional museum practices, seeking to dismantle the colonial legacies that have shaped the production and dissemination of knowledge within these institutions. This effort aims to make museum spaces more inclusive, representative, and equitable, ensuring that multiple voices and perspectives are incorporated into the construction of historical and cultural
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Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige are Lebanese filmmakers and artists born in Beirut in 1969. Their partnership spans various artistic languages, including feature films, documentaries, video installations, photography, sculptures, performative lectures, and texts. University professors in Lebanon and Europe, they have built a body of visual research that delves into personal and political archives, mapping
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Wu Tsang, filmmaker, artist, and performer born in 1982, has built a body of work that explores central themes such as identity, marginalization, and representation. Educated at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (B.F.A., 2004) and the University of California in Los Angeles (M.F.A., 2010), Tsang utilizes the hybrid between documentary and fiction
