Four SWICH partner museums organize residencies around the topic “Outside In – Illuminating Guests / Stereoculture: The Art of Listening“. On December 17th 2015, representatives of all museums involved in this group as well as the four residents met at Royal Museum for Central Africa and discussed experiences, results and future plans.
What were/are the challenges faced when organizing the residencies, how did the museums define the residency and to what extent is the fixed setting of the residency perceived as limiting by the guest? In round table discussions, structured around presentations by the different guests, the group dealt with these and many other questions. Additional debaters joined the meeting and shared their experiences with the participants.
Museums organizing the Outside In - Illuminating Guests residencies: Linden-Museum, Stuttgart (DE); Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale, Tervuren (BE); National Museums of World Culture, Stockholm/Göteborg (SE); Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico «Luigi Pigorini», Rom (IT)
Morning Session
discussion about various aspects of residencies and visit of construction site of new Royal Museum of Central Africa with Maarten Couttenier.
Afternoon session
Presentations and Q/A
13:30 – 14:00: Royal Museum for Central Africa Tervuren – Introduction by Els Cornelissen & Koeki Claessens
14:00 – 14:30: Linden-Museum Stuttgart, Georg Noack & Leah Abayao (researcher)
14:30 – 15:00: Museums of World Culture Gothenburg/Stockholm, Michael Barrett & Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn (artist)
15:00 – 15:30: Luigi Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography Rome, Loretta Paderni & Lim Hooi Hwa (artist)
15:30 – 16:00: National Museum of World Cultures, Leiden/Amsterdam/Bergen-Dal, Wayne Modest & Lina Issa (artist)
16:30 – 18:00: Round Table and discussion including Anna Seiderer (Université de Paris 8), Alana Jelinek (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge), Doris Prlic (Weltmuseum Wien), Els De Palmenaer (Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp), Billy Kalonji (COMRAF, RMCA) and Aimé Ntakiyica (artist).
