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Ecologising Museums

Edited by L'Internationale Online and Sarah Werkmeister

Graphic Design: Antoine Bertaudière

2016
ISBN 978-94-915-6408-6
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epub

Contents

  1. 1.
    Introduction
  2. 2.
    Let Us Now Praise Famous Seeds
    Michael Taussig
  3. 3.
    Beyond COP21: Collaborating with Indigenous People to Understand Climate Change and the Arctic
    Candis Callison
  4. 4.
    Theorising More-Than Human Collectives for Climate Change Action in Museums
    Fiona R. Cameron
  5. 5.
    Fiction is a Worlding. Post 5
    Clémence Seurat
  6. 6.
    Late Subatlantic. Science Poetry in Times of Global Warming
    Ursula Biemann
  7. 7.
    Ecosophy and Slow Anthropology. A Conversation with Barbara Glowczewski
    Barbara Glowczewski, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Sarah Werkmeister
  8. 8.
    Necroaesthetics: Denaturalising the Collection
    Anna-Sophie Springer, Etienne Turpin
  9. 9.
    The Eclipse of the Witness: Natural Anatomy and the Scopic Regime of Modern Exhibition-Machines
    Vincent Normand
  10. 10.
    Imagining a Culture Beyond Oil at the Paris Climate Talks
    Mel Evans and Kevin Smith of Liberate Tate
  11. 11.
    Climate Risks, Art, and Red Cross Action. Towards a Humanitarian Role for Museums?
    Pablo Suarez
  12. 12.
    Biographies
  13. 13.
    Colophon

The implications around climate change have far-reaching consequences but they can also have far-reaching benefits. The e-publication Ecologising Museums explores how museums and cultural institutions can face the issue not only head-on, but from all angles. To what degree are the core activities of collecting, preserving and presenting in fact attitudes that embody an unsustainable view of the world and the relationship between man and nature?