“Returning”: The question of return, restitution, and repatriation, or alternative models of custodianship and care in postcolonial contexts
Fourth session of the Decolonial Futures of Audiovisual Archives and Archiving Series in Eye organized by Asli Özgen and Jamil Fiorino Habib
Continuing the discussion from exiled audiovisual artefacts, this session elaborates the return of audiovisual material and maps the changing concepts of custodianship, ownership, and care when it comes to colonial audiovisual heritage.
Event details of
“Returning”: The question of return, restitution, and repatriation, or alternative models of custodianship and care in postcolonial contexts
- Date
- 9 December 2024
- Time
- 14:00 -17:00
- Location
- Eye Filmmuseum Waterfront
Discussion questions
- In what ways (state) archival institutions can centre their colonial collections without reproducing the colonial paradigms of surveillance, domination, extraction and how can we envision alternative practices of custodianship and care with communities?
- How to expand and reconsider the discussions on return, restitution, repatriation (or rematriation) concerning the specificity of audiovisual items and collections?
Guest speaker: Dr. Nikolaus Perneczky
Reading group
6 December 2024 15:00-18:00 at UvA Buzzhouse (OMHP). Please send an email to organizers to receive information and updates about the reading group meetings.