Δ SESSION #1 ***FULLY BOOKED***

SHIFT collective in conversation with Nora Al-Badri and Brian Njenga

“Shaping the Void? The potential and challenges of digital 3D models to re-imagine museum collections”

SHIFT invites Nora Al-Badri and Brian Njenga for a public discussion on the intersection of 3D modelling, activism, digital reproduction, access, ownership and museums.

Brian Njenga, is a 3D artist with a background in graphic design and games and has created a virtual museum of Kenyan objects of cultural heritage which are no longer in Kenya. This currently exists as a beta version, The Heritage Project (2021). 

Nora Al-Badri is a research-based, conceptual artist whose practice explores the emancipatory potential of new technologies to open public, political discussions. Often these projects provoke questions about extractivism, the location and ownership of objects of cultural heritage, such as The Other Nefertiti (2015) and Fossil Futures (2017).

Both positions differ in terms of their fields of engagement, the nature of their expertise and the place from which they work and disseminate their expressions (Berlin, Nairobi). 

SHIFT (Sam Hopkins, Marian Nur Goni, Simon Rittmeier) is a transnational collective working on the intersection of art and research, particularly on issues related to African objects diaspora in the aftermath of colonialism.

Nora Al-Badri and Brian Njenga will join the event virtually.

As part of the exhibition “Invisible Inventories: Questioning Kenyan Collections in Western Museums”

The session is followed by the highlight guided tour with Eric Otieno Sumba.

€3 / €1.50
Costs of the exhibition visit included in admission fee.
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 37
Please register via the booking button “TERMIN BUCHEN”.

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