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[Show picture list] jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(“#ngg-slideshow-16-2657-1″).nggSlideshow( {id: 16,fx:”fade”,width:670,height:500,domain: “http://www.mela-blog.net/”,timeout:4000}); }); On February 6th, the MeLa related exhibition “The Memory of the Sea” was inaugurated through a public event which took place in the Auditorium of Galata Museo del Mare in Genova.
The conference was opened by President Maria Paola Profumo, then focused on the presentation of the curator of the exhibition, Anna Chiara Cimoli. She gave a talk about the representation of migrations and the concept of relativity that it implies, taking advantage of some significant examples taken both from contemporary art (works by Mona Hatoum, Adrian Paci and others) and from the museography of some important European migration museums.
Journalist Stefano Pasta talked about the role of the information networks across the Mediterranean; his lecture focused on the social networks in the Arab Spring, as well as of youtube, blogs etc. A part of the intervention was dedicated to independent [...]
On January 24th-25th, Palazzo Lombardia in Milan hosted the international workshop dedicated to The Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) between civil society, research and institutions, organised within the transboundary cooperation project Italy Switzerland (2007-2013) “E.CH.I. – Italian Swiss ethnographies for the enhancement of Intangible Cultural Heritage”. During the two days, delegates of institutions, practitioners and researchers convened with the aim of discussing and better understanding good practices in the transmission and enhancement of ICH. Local, national and international cases have been critically examined, both in the light of the Conventions of the UNESCO (Paris, 2003) and of the Council of Europe (Faro, 2005) and with reference to anthropological and sociological issues.
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After its first presentation at Museo Preistorico Etnografico Luigi Pigorini in Rome, the travelling exhibition “La Memoria del Mare. Oggetti Migranti nel Mediterraneo / The Memory of the Sea. Objects Migrating within the Mediterranean” is going to appear at the Galata Museo del Mare in Genoa. The exhibition, curated by Anna Chiara Cimoli and promoted within the MeLa Research Field 06, will be displayed at Saletta dell’Arte (Calata de Mari 1) from 6th to 28th February 2013.
“Memory of the Sea. Objects Migrating within the Mediterranean” is meant to present a private museum located in Zarzis, in South Tunisia, a place where many sea currents meet; this experience ensued from the work of Mohsen Lihidheb, who has been collecting, amassing, organizing objects for many years, claiming his right to take care of them, to create artworks with them, and to transform them on and on through time, proposing an innovative form [...]
A view of the exhibition. Photo: Paulo Lobo.
From 14 December to 17 February, the photo exhibition La face cachée des mots is on display at the Kreutzbeg Museum, Berlin. Conceived and produced by the Centre de Documentation sur les Migrations Humaines in Dudelange, Luxemburg, it deals with the theme of the relationship between migration and democracy, and it does so by questioning artists in a visual form. Paulo Lobo, photographer born in Portugal, took pictures of musicians, poets, actors, painters etc. in an empty swimming pool, putting them in a dialogic dimension in respect to a sentence they has previously written or chosen. The result is sometimes cryptic, sometimes funny, other times bitter, but it always succeeds in stimulating reflection about one’s perception of identity and of its possible visual translations.
The exhibition is curated by Christine Muller and Dario Cieol.
Martin Düspohl, director of Kreutzberg Museum, led [...]
Objects belonging to shipwrecked migrants collected by Moshen Lihidheb. In the left can there’s a gris-gris, a Senegalese talisman. Mattia Insolera/Luzphoto.
The Museo Preistorico Etnografico Luigi Pigorini in Rome is hosting some MeLa events, in the framework of the “Idee migranti” call for ideas. Two MeLa proposals were selected in the call, which accompanied the exhibition [S]oggetti migranti, produced in the framework of the READ-ME 2 project: The Memory of the Sea. Objects Migrating within the Mediterranean by Anna Chiara Cimoli and Crossing bodies-Postcolonial visions by Routes Agency, partner of MeLa in this specific occasion.
The Memory of the Sea. Objects Migrating within the Mediterranean is an exhibition about a private museum located in Zarzis, in South Tunisia, a place where many sea currents meet. Here Mohsen Lihidheb has been collecting, amassing, organizing objects for many years, claiming his right to take care of them, to create artworks [...]
On the 12-14 December 2012 the Conference National Museums in a Changing Europe organized by EUNAMUS will be held at the Central European University in Budapest.
The conference is the grand finale of the three-year research project Eunamus.
There is still time to sign up for the conference to participate in discussions and debates on the historical, contemporary and future roles of national museums in a context of change. There is no conference fee, to register your interest, please email registration_eunamus_bp@pasts.ceu.hu For programme, please see http://www.eunamus.eu/Firstpage/budapestconference.html and for notes on the keynotes, please scroll down this email. A series of Open Access digital reports are coming out of Eunamus. They are available at the project’s homepage and will be discussed and debated at the conference in Budapest. Please visit www.eunamus.eu
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[Show picture list] jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(“#ngg-slideshow-12-2039-2″).nggSlideshow( {id: 12,fx:”fade”,width:670,height:500,domain: “http://www.mela-blog.net/”,timeout:4000}); }); The MeLa POLIMI staff attended the annual AEMI conference, that took place in Krakow from 27 to 29 September. The conference was structured around two main themes: “How lessons from the past may help address questions related to migrations today”, and “Shaping Europe´s identity: Internal migrations – past and present”. Besides the papers presented by representatives of institutions, museums, archives and research centers, some workshops were focused on a few themes of particular interest for AEMI’s agenda, such as the European Migration Heritage Routes (chair: Antoinette Reuter, Sarah Clément), the preparation of a book about European migratory history (chair: Maddalena Tirabassi) and the MIGRAPort Project (chair: Hans Storhaug).
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During the Summer, Anna Chiara Cimoli (Politecnico di Milano) visited some Italian migration museums and interviewed their directors.
The most ancient museum in the Italian peninsula is that of the Republic of San Marino, born in 1997. The Centro Studi Permanente sull’emigrazione – Museo dell’Emigrante wants to tell the story of the Sammarinese who left (to Italy, Europe or more frequently the USA) and their cultural and social link to the homeland. It is hosted in an ancient monastery, and despite an exhibition design which is getting a bit old, it is very effective in communicating its contents: the reasons for leaving, the complex multifaceted identities that are born out of migrations, the migratory chains, the importance of the remittances, the role of women, and so on. Director Patrizia Di Luca explained that the Museo dell’Emigrante is at the moment investing on the digitalization of the archival [...]
The MeLa Book Series, which was started by the on-line publication of the Proceedings of the MeLa Kick-off Meeting in Roma – “Museums in an Age of Migrations. Questions, Challenges, Perspectives”, edited by Luca Basso Peressut and Clelia Pozzi, can already be downloaded from the MeLa website – is now about to be enriched by the new Project’s outcomes.
The books ensued from the preliminary research activities of the MeLa Research Fields 01.Museums & Identity in History and Contemporaneity, 02.Cultural Memory, Migrating Modernity and Museum Practices, 03.Network of Museums, Libraries and Public Cultural Institutions, and 05.Exhibition Design, Technology of Representation and Experimental Actions will be soon available. We report here the abstracts illustrating the upcoming publications.
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Farum is a suburb 40 minutes away from Copenhagen. Here, following the wish of a major, in the middle of the Nineties was born the first idea of an Immigrants Museum, now hosted in the Culture House (the museum as it is now opened its doors at the beginning of 2012). The Immigrantmuseet is a part of the state authorised Furesø Museums, which also run local museums and archives. Entrance is free. Anna Chiara Cimoli (Politecnico of Milan) visited it in the framework of her research about migration museums, and interviewed curator Susanne Krogh Jensen.
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