Across the Past and Present of Engaging with Colonial Contexts in the Arts and in Cultural Institutions

Abstract

Over the summer of 2020, as statues were tagged and fell across North America and Europe, the question of how to deal with colonial legacy saturated media coverage, it became clear that we are as yet analytically ill-equipped to deal with the issues being brought up by different forms of public activism: the representations of and reparations requested in relation to the history of slavery, extractive colonial economics and the ideological constructions of racism. It is not the role of this r...