Bernard Müller

Biographie

Trained as an anthropologist, Bernard Müller studies processes of staging and storytelling, whether in performative settings (theatre, rituals, performances, etc.), museum scenography or narrative fiction. He specialises in the cultural history of West Africa (Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana). He also designs lecture series, study days, exhibitions, multimedia installations, outreach programmes, research projects, curricula, educational formats and learning pathways, as well as a range of events with educational, informative or playful aims. He co-leads the EHESS seminar “Les objets et les choses en sciences sociales : matérialités contemporaines, musées et patrimoines” (Objects and Things in the Social Sciences: Contemporary Materialities, Museums and Heritage). Within the REMATRIATION project, he coordinates Strand 1, “Racontottes du Togo”, in which Togolese women artists recount colonisation through a selection of objects from the so-called ethnographic collections of France and Germany. Participants include Hanifa Dobila, Marie Pabguigani Lamboni, Félicité Notson Kodjo-Atsou and Gaetan Noussoglo. The aim is to gather, from women’s perspectives, narratives of insubordination linked to forms of protest against colonial rule.

Bernard Müller, “L’affaire des ‘pouces coupés’. De la désuétude du musée moderne pour raconter le monde d’aujourd’hui”, Multitudes, no. 78, 2020, pp. 190–197. Open access: https://shs.cairn.info/revue-multitudes-2020-1-page-190?lang=fr