Digital festival
October 17, 2020, 11am–6:30pm CEST
Everything Passes Except The Past is an exhibition and digital festival organized by the Goethe-Institut in collaboration with Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin. The growing public awareness of racist violence and historic injustice has put colonial monuments, ethnographic collections and film archives into the spotlight of political and social debates. For the purposes of Everything Passes Except The Past we propose an artistic and discursive approach to the residues of colonialism in order to redefine power structures and envision alternative futures.
The exhibition takes place from September 17-October 18 2020 at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and presents artworks by Bianca Baldi, Alessandra Ferrini, Grace Ndiritu and the collective Troubled Archives. Colliding reality and representation, the presented artworks put in question the Western idea of the colonial image as neutral document and expose tensions between past and present.
The exhibition is accompanied by a rich, discursive digital festival which will be livestreamed via the websites of the Goethe-Institut and the FSRR on October 17: alongside a keynote contribution from Bénédicte Savoy, round-table talks with activists, artists, experts, curators and researchers from Africa, Latin America and Europe will take place. The panels will address the debates around the repatriation of ethnographic collections, and the challenges to decolonize museum collections, archives and public space, in order to bring views from the Global North and the Global South into intensive dialogue. Besides, the presentations focus on the question how we could learn from the methodologies of art, critical theory, and activism to provoke politicisation and critical metamorphosis.
The festival is part of the Goethe-Institut’s 2-year long international project Everything Passes Except The Past which organised various workshops and events in Belgium, France, Portugal and Spain in 2019. Many of the participating artists and experts present works and statements that have been developed during this research period. A publication of the results in bookform is foreseen for end of 2020.
Everything Passes Except the Past
Digital Festival
October 17, 2020, 11am-6:30pm CEST
The event will be livestreamed on the websites
https://www.goethe.de/belgium/everythingpasses
https://www.fsrr.org/en/mostre/everything-passes-except-the-past/
No registration is required. Simultaneous translation in English and Italian will be provided.
11am: Introduction by the organizers
Aloña Elizalde, Jana J. Haeckel, Irene Calderoni
11:15am: Keynote speech by Bénédicte Savoy
Amnesia. 40 Years‘ Debate on African Cultural Heritage in European Museums
12pm: New Museum Practices: On the Ethics and Politics of Return
Bénédicte Savoy, Didier Houénoudé, Christian Greco, moderated by Ayoko Mensah
2:30pm: Critical museology: Revisiting Colonial Collections through Artistic and Curatorial Perspectives
Carolina Orsini, Simona Berhe, Bianca Baldi, Grace Ndiritu
4pm: A Difficult Heritage: Rethinking Representations of Italy’s Colonial Past
Rosa Anna Di Lella, Alessandra Ferrini, Angelica Pesarini, moderated by Liliana Ellena
5:30pm: All Statues Must Fall? Conflicts and Iconoclasm in Public Space
Daniela Ortiz, Yann Le Gall (Berlin Postkolonial e.V.), Igiaba Scego, moderated by Tania Adam
Project manager and curator: Jana J. Haeckel
For enquiries contact: exhibition [at] fsrr.org
