Abstract
Rosa Wevers (RW): Rolando, you are the organizer of the Decolonial Summer School in Middelburg, you have published on decolonial theory and practice, and you are invited by many art institutions to speak on the question of how to decolonize the museum.[1] You are affiliated with the Institute of Cultural Inquiry (ICON) at Utrecht University and you are part of the advisory board of the Museum of Equality and Difference (MOED). Speaking from this position, what do you consider to be the urgent issues that Dutch art institutions should deal with today?
Highlights
Rosa Wevers (RW): Rolando, you are the organizer of the Decolonial Summer School in Middelburg, you have published on decolonial theory and practice, and you are invited by many art institutions to speak on the question of how to decolonize the museum.[1]
Rolando Vázquez Melken (RVM): A central proposition of decolonial thought is that there is no modernity without coloniality—that is to say, that there is no history of Western civilization without enslavement
Decolonial aesthesis questions the role that museums have played in the constitution of the modern/colonial order
Summary
Rosa Wevers (RW): Rolando, you are the organizer of the Decolonial Summer School in Middelburg, you have published on decolonial theory and practice, and you are invited by many art institutions to speak on the question of how to decolonize the museum.[1]. Decolonial aesthesis questions the role that museums have played in the constitution of the modern/colonial order.
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