Δ ANNUAL TALK - WELTKULTUREN FRIENDS

“Beyond Civilisation”.
Frankfurt, Carl Strehlow and the Aranda
John Strehlow (London)    

John Strehlow discusses the life and work of his grandparents Carl und Frieda Strehlow on the Hermannsburg mission station in the middle of the Australian desert. Carl Strehlow (1871-1920), missionary, ethnologist and linguist, has close links with the Weltkulturen Museum’s history. The museum published his work on the Aboriginal peoples and acquired his collection.

Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37
In German
€5 / reduced €2.50

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Δ LECTURE SERIES

“Papua New Guinea – 40 Years after Independence”

“Why development fails. Clientelism in Politics and the Administration”
Roland Seib (Darmstadt)

From September to December, the Weltkulturen Museum and the Pacific Forum are jointly presenting a series of monthly lectures entitled “Papua New Guinea – 40 Years after Independence”. In the series, scholars reflect on the topic from the perspectives of their different disciplines.

Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37
In German
€5 / reduced €2.50

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Δ CURATOR'S GUIDED TOUR “EL HADJI SY: PAINTING, PERFORMANCE, POLITICS”

With Dr. Yvette Mutumba, Research Curator Africa at the Weltkulturen Museum, and Co-Curator of the exhibition

Dr. Yvette Mutumba highlights the museum’s early engagement with contemporary art from Africa by presenting the first retrospective of the Senegalese painter and curator El Hadji Sy, whose involvement with the Weltkulturen Museum stretches back to 1985.

The Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt not only holds an exceptional collection of 70,000 historical ethnographic objects from four continents, it owns over 3,000 works of contemporary art from Africa. Collected from 1974 onward, these works constitute important art-historical testimonials from West, East, Southern and Central Africa, providing essential perspectives on art from the African continent produced before what has been termed the global turn of 1989.

Weltkulturen Museum
Schaumainkai 29, 60594 Frankfurt
Saturday, 23rd September, 6pm

Entrance: €7 / reduced €3.50
Cost of tours included in admission fee.

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Δ NEW WELTKULTUREN PUBLICATION

SOMETHING ABOUT AFRICA
Challenges facing the Education at the Weltkulturen Museum

Over recent years, ascription issues, forms of display and restitution claims have fuelled a debate in German-speaking countries on the remit and tasks of ethnological museums. These crucial issues have major implications for museum education services and require education officers to engage with and critique the debate to develop their own positions. This publication takes the educational and outreach practices in Frankfurt’s Weltkulturen Museum as a basis for positing and exploring new approaches to opening up new perspectives and avoiding stereotyping.

Edited by Stephanie Endter and Carolin Rothmund.
Published in Kerber Verlag. Special price: €20.
With the generous support of the Aventis Foundation under its “eXperimente” cultural initiative.
 

BOOK LAUNCH - DAY PROGRAMME:

2PM – 5PM: Anti-Bias Workshop FULLY BOOKED
Karin Joggerst(Anti-Bias-Forum Freiburg)
Weltkulturen Vermittlung, Schaumainkai 29

To mark the publication of Something about Africa, Weltkulturen Education is offering an anti-bias workshop exploring the significance of our own (cultural) background and identity in our educational work. Values and social norms may flow unconsciously into our work, and can generate a bias culminating in prejudices and stereotyping. Those working in education, though, need to be aware of possible prejudices and self-reflective on their own position within social and individual power structures. The anti-bias workshop, which also uses exercises to present the anti-bias approach, offers an important impetus for our daily work.
In German. €15. Registration: 069 212 45115 or

6PM: Talk
“Assembling and Analysing – Areas for Action in Education and Educational Services”
Nora Sternfeld (Professor of Curating and Mediating Art, Aalto University, Finland)
Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37

Museums and exhibitions are not only locations where knowledge is disseminated, but also reinterpreted, acquired, negotiated and discussed. How can we reflect on and critique clichés and ascriptions? In this process, which canonical categories and assumptions from institutions and educators are reproduced? Is there something which cannot be said? And when and how can it be discussed? Taking examples of projects by trafo.K, a Vienna-based office for research and educational projects, Nora Sternfeld highlights the challenges and opportunities for opening up spaces for critical thought in education and creating resistant zones of action.
In German. €3 / reduced €1.50

The evening concludes with a discussion with the authors and a reading by writer Phyllis Kiehl.

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Δ EXHIBITION OPENING

“IMAG[IN]ING MUSICAL INDONESIA”

Tuesday, 29th September, 7pm

Paying homage to Indonesia as the guest of honour at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, the Weltkulturen Museum’s exhibition in the Green Room, “IMAG[IN]ING MUSICAL INDONESIA”, traces the history of the diverse and contrasting musical landscape in Indonesia with examples of instruments, dance and performance.

With 17,058 Indonesian islands it's truly difficult to gain an overall impression of its music. In the past, European and Islamic influences, as well as regional re-interpretations and re-contextualizations of classical Indonesian instruments, have all contributed to the emergence of many new and diverse genres of Indonesian music. The exhibition addresses this complex topic by sampling various sources, such as photographies, films, literature and selected objects. The Weltkulturen Museum’s extensive collection of historical images provides visual inspiration for this journey.

A studio equipped with Indonesian literature, films, an audio point and instruments invites visitors for hands-on experiences.

Our thanks to GUDE and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings for their support.

Running time: 30th September – 15th November 2015

Green Room, Weltkulturen Labor
Schaumainkai  37, 60594 Frankfurt
Tues – Sun, 11am – 6pm, Wed, 11am – 8pm
Entrance: € 3 / reduced € 1.50

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