Rendering Race Through a Paranoid Postsocialist Lens

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_15878
dc.contributor.author	Koobak Redi
dc.contributor.author	Tali Margaret
dc.title	Rendering Race Through a Paranoid Postsocialist Lens. Activist Curating and Public Engagement in the Postcolonial Debate in Eastern Europe
dc.type	Capitolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This chapter engages with the heated public debate on racial representation and colonial history that arose around Kumu Art Museum’s exhibition Rendering Race (2021) in Estonia. As an academic activist intervention, it proposed an important shift by changing racist titles of artworks from the twentieth century and thereby for the first time in the museum’s practice considered minority groups as its publics. The chapter analyses the curatorial strategies used and the key points of contention in the public debate to consider what it revealed and obscured about Eastern Europe’s relationship to the aftermath of European colonialism.
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi e ricerche
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-01-26
dc.dateAccepted	2022-10-21
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-07-13
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-678-7/rendering-race-through-a-paranoid-postsocialist-le/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-677-0/011
dc.identifier.issn	2610-993X
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9123
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-678-7
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-677-0
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Activist curating
dc.subject	Eastern Europe
dc.subject	Estonian art
dc.subject	Postcolonial Europe
dc.subject	Postsocialism
dc.subject	Renaming

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Rendering Race Through a Paranoid Postsocialist Lens

Activist Curating and Public Engagement in the Postcolonial Debate in Eastern Europe

Redi Koobak University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

Margaret Tali Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia

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abstract

This chapter engages with the heated public debate on racial representation and colonial history that arose around Kumu Art Museum’s exhibition Rendering Race (2021) in Estonia. As an academic activist intervention, it proposed an important shift by changing racist titles of artworks from the twentieth century and thereby for the first time in the museum’s practice considered minority groups as its publics. The chapter analyses the curatorial strategies used and the key points of contention in the public debate to consider what it revealed and obscured about Eastern Europe’s relationship to the aftermath of European colonialism.

Pubblicato

26 Gennaio 2023

Accettato

21 Ottobre 2022

Presentato

13 Luglio 2022

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978-88-6969-678-7

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978-88-6969-677-0

Keywords: Activist curating • Postsocialism • Renaming • Eastern Europe • Postcolonial Europe • Estonian art

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-677-0/011

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