PERFORM
Performing Provenance
Generic call
Partner Institutions
- Bandjoun Station
- Centre for Advanced Study "Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change"- Universität Münster
- Cercle Kapsiki
- Compagnie Zora Snake
- ENS-PSL
- Fondation Lucien Paye - CIUP
- Linden Museum Stuttgart
- LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur
- Programme ANADA (Musée d'Aquitaine à Bordeaux, Musée d'éthnographie de l'Université de Bordeaux, Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie de Périgueux, Musée d'Angoulème, Musem d'Histoire Naturelle de La Rochelle)
- Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
- Université Paris Cité
- Université de Bordeaux
- Université de Douala
- Université d'Ebolowa
- Université Paris 8
Summary
PERFORM – Performing Provenance examines contemporary challenges in the provenance research of cultural objects from the Grasslands of Cameroon through contemporary art, performance practices, and digital environments. Drawing on an expanded notion of performativity, the project critically addresses colonial legacies, historical violence, memory and trauma, as well as current debates on restitution and the decolonization of museums.
Based on a research-creation methodology, PERFORM brings together researchers, artists, and cultural institutions in France, Germany, and Cameroon. Through a transcolonial corpus of museum objects, documentary constellations combining archives, narratives, and artistic productions, and a series of international workshops, the project fosters the co-production of plurivocal narratives and creative works, contributing to debates on shared authority, ethical responsibility, and the decolonial futures of heritage institutions.
Duration
9,5 Monate
