Curating Diversity in Europe, Panel III: Archives and Transcultural Composition
Channel: Akademie der Künste
Date: 2020-10-15

with Carlos Gutiérrez, Lars Christian Koch, meLê yamomo, Tiago de Oliveira Pinto, Julia Gerlach

In parallel to the restitution debates in the visual arts, the question of how to deal with “looted music” also arises in music: how can one advocate for musical traditions that have been marginalized or threatened by cultural missionary processes? Under what circumstances have our archives been set up and how we can ensure that archive materials are adequately examined and contextualized with regard to their colonial background? What alternative forms of archives are there? Who do the artefacts belong to and who has access to them?

The Panel is part of the symposium "Curating Diversity in Europe. Decolonizing Contemporary Music", which took place on September 25 2020 in Akademie der Künste Berlin and online. 
"Curating Diversity in Europe" offers a platform for keeping the discourse on diversity in contemporary music in Europe alive, developing potentials for transformation during a time of limited international encounters and swelling nationalistic currents. The focus of the symposium is on processes and profiles of curating that critically question power structures and eurological patterns of thought, to implement political, collective or participatory strategies in the curatorial decision-making process.

The symposium is a project of "Sounds Now", a European network dedicated to promoting more diversity and inclusion in contemporary music and sound art, in cooperation with the Akademie der Künste Berlin, inm / field notes and Ultima Festival in Oslo.

The symposium will be continued in May 2021 as part of the "Memories in Music" festival (May 6-9, 2021) at the Akademie der Künste.


video: Livestream Berlin

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