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Anna Chiara Cimoli from Politecnico di Milano recently visited the Museo d’ Història de la Inmigraciò de Catalunya. Besides describing the museum activities, objectives and challenges, director Imma Boj discussed the temporary exhibition “El viatge de Gaye”, curated by Tatiana Donoso and Magda Bandera, which suggests through photography a relationship among a person, his/her migration story (real, imagined or refused) and the food he/she eats. This allows a reflection, suitable in particular for schools, about an ideal pyramid where, instead of nutrition elements, there is a series of values going from the most basic (phisiological necessities) to the intermediate (security, social acceptance, self-esteem) to the highest (self-fulfilment).
Anna Chiara also visited the “Pandalla global” (Global screen) exhibition in CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona).
On Wednesday February 22nd, we of the MeLa team at POLIMI held an internal workshop to discuss the advancement of our research within the Research Fields 5 and 6. The workshop resulted in fruitful conversation and exchange about the contribution of DPA and INDACO researchers to the project.
For a report of the discussion and more information on the specific lines of inquiry undertaken by POLIMI, follow these links:
- 20120222_REPORT_MeLa_POLIMIinternalworkshop
- web overview of all the presentations on Issuu
Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration Le Palais de la Port Dorée, Paris Museum of the Immigration permanent exhibition: Repères
L’exposition permanente Repères présente, dans une approche croisée des regards et des disciplines, deux siècles d’histoire de l’immigration : témoignages, documents d’archives, photographies et œuvres d’art se répondent dans un espace interactif, au rythme d’un parcours historique et thématique qui relate les temps forts de l’histoire de France depuis le 19e siècle [visit the exhibition website].
As everyone can understand even in the website of this museum/information centre there is no other language than French: and this is already a sign of the all exhibition and curatorial design quality. This is a space (impossible to call it either museum either an information centre) where actually the rhetoric of the French Nation-State is pervasively performing in opposition with what eventually should have been the programme of such a place (namely: [...]
Museum the Quai Branly, Paris (visit on February 2012)
Using paintings, posters, pictures, computers, movies and a few objects, the exhibition (developed along a circular path) has not really any special features: it would be necessary to visit the show a second time two enter more critically in the exhibition design even it is possible to say that the very dark atmosphere seams to be more linked to the savage exhibition effect than to the one of a new way to approach the subject. At the opposite, all the texts (not always easy to read due the darkness and the font size) are very carefully and correctly written, paying a meaningful tribute to the cause of the postcolonial studies with a strong critics to French, and more in general Western, world when referring to ‘the Other’, the outsider, always presented as a un-civilized or sub-human entity.
Of a very [...]
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