Planetary Patchwork
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Alessandra Ferrini (London)
Unruly Connections
Hiba Shalabi (Tripoli) with translation by Malak Altaeb (Tripoli/Paris)
#SaveTheOldCityOfTripoli
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Banji Chona (Rome)
Ngoma zya Budima: Exploring Grief and Death, Celebrating Life and Love, Batonga Drum Story
Victoria Phiri (Lusaka), Samba Yonga (Lusaka) & Mulenga Kapwepwe (Lusaka) & the Women’s History Museum Zambia
Decolonization of Cultural Objects in the Process of Restitution and Repatriation. The Case of Zambian Cultural Objects in Swedish Museums
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Annalisa Bolin (Kalmar) and David Nkusi (Kigali)
Decolonizing Heritage Management in Rwanda: Community Engagement and Homegrown Solutions
Chantal Umuhoza (Kigali)
Decolonizing Conservation Practices in Rwanda Museums
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Njabulo Chipangura (Manchester)
Community Museums in Zimbabwe as an Alternative Form of Representing Living Cultures
Ndapewoshali Ndahafa Ashipala (Windhoek) & Tuuda Haitula (Windhoek) & Museums Association of Namibia
Museum Development as a Tool for Strengthening Cultural Rights – A Case Study
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Alyssa K. Barry (Dakar)
Navigating the Digital Spaces
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Yashaswini Raghunandan (Bangalore)
Eclipse Entanglements
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Paul Basu (London) & Ozioma Onuzulike (Nsukka) & Ikenna Onwuegbuna (Nsukka)
[Re:]Entanglements
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Laura Ammann (Berlin)
The Appeal of the Colonial Baroque to the Brazilian Modernists
Johanna Palmeyro (Buenos Aires) with translation by Lidia Ponce de la Vega (Montréal)
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Taputukura Raea (Wellington) & Digital Pasifik
You Can’t Find What You Can’t See – Making Pacific Cultural Heritage Visible and Accessible
Taputukura Raea (Wellington) & Digital Pasifik
Re-Claiming Pacific History – How Pacific Communities are Re-Connecting with their Taonga (Treasures)
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Lukasz Stanek (Manchester)
Socialist Worldmaking
Dawit Benti (Addis Ababa)
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Sasha Huber (Helsinki)
Demounting Louis Agassiz: Artistic Renegotiation of Archive, Memory & Place
Ece Canli (Porto)
Beneath the Thick Skin, Behind the Brick Wall
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Call for Papers/stories/patches

Planetary Patchwork: A Perpetual Seminar on Artistic Practices, Heritage, and Epistemologies (online, July 2022 to ∞)

Planetary Patchwork: A Perpetual Seminar on Artistic Practices, Heritage and Epistemologies is conceived as an online platform for plurivocal and multiperspectival dialogue between arts and academia. The seminar hosts meetings/discussions/presentations/screenings/readings which seek to highlight patches of planetary entanglements and experiment with meeting digitally. 

Using the metaphor of the patchwork to build/stitch networks between seemingly distant case studies and stories from around the globe, without predefined topic to find overlaps, linkages and seams between the patches of knowledge.

Do you want to add a patch to the Planetary Patchwork? 

Open call for 20min online presentations in future sessions of from July 2022 onwards ∞.

The seminar brings together diverse fields such as art history, contemporary art, and architecture, archaeology, heritage studies, museum studies, ecology, history, linguistics, literature, politics, philosophy & more. 

Possible topics can include (but will not be limited to): 
- case studies of connectivity and resistance.
- the visual and material culture of colonialism.
- legacies of diverse colonial empires and coloniality, decolonization, restitution and repair.
- issues of accessibility, preservation, and conservation.
- engaging communities in museum spaces and other modes of display, and “new relational ethics” (Sarr/Savoy).
- architecture and the built environment.
- narratives and counter-narratives, and issues of memory.
- intersections between cultural and natural heritage.
- human and-more-than-human relations.

Visit the about (link) page for more information on the seminar.

Submission format

Please send us proposals/abstracts/stories/patches (max 500 words or video excerpt) and an introduction to you and your work. 

Send to connect@planetarypatchwork.net by April 30, 2022 

Submissions by artists and scholars from/based in the Southern hemisphere are particularly encouraged!

See the program and links to register for upcoming Planetary Patchwork sessions (February-July 2022) here: www.planetarypatchwork.net 

Co-convened by Evi Olde Rikkert (Nijmegen/Florence), Nicole Remus (Jinja) and Vera-Simone Schulz (Florence).