Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA)
Symposium: Museums on Fire (day 2)
Clementine Deliss, Carola Grahn, Geir Tore Holm, Anna Hudson, Eva Dagny Johansen, Duane Linklater, Catalina Lozano, Gerald McMaster, Anne May Olli, Raven Chacon, Anders SunnaStaged within a specially commissioned scenography created by Sami artist Anders Sunna, 'Museums on Fire' is a symposium addressing the entanglement of art institutions with the colonial and modernist ideologies that created them. Artists, curators, academics of indigenous and non-indigenous descent are asked to consider the spaces and processes through which indigenous artistic practices, past and present, should be addressed today. What would a non-colonial museum look, feel and sound like?