IAS CSSA Seminar: On Curatorial Blindness: South Asia and the Contemporary Dutch Ethnographic Museum

What happens when ethnographic museums begin to address the absences in their collections? This talk will grapple with this question by introducing the notion of ‘blindness’ as a critical concept and curatorial practice. Through examples related to exhibitions and collections of South Asia in Dutch ethnographic museums, the speaker will draw on historical context, material culture, and contemporary art interventions to further nuance the place that blindness has in the ethnographic museum today. 

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Image credit: Karela Collage (c. Sarojini Lewis).