THE METABOLIC MUSEUM

For quite some time now, ethnographic museums in Europe have been compelled to legitimate themselves. Their exhibition-making has be come a topic of discussion, as has the contentious history of their collections, which have come about through colonial appropriatio n.Clearly, this cannot continue. That the situation can be different is something that Clémentine Deliss explores in her current pub lication. She offers an intriguing mix of autobiographically-informed novel and conceptual thesis on contemporary art and anthropolo gy. Refl...[Read more]