In Conversation with Naman Ahuja
*KEYNOTE*‘From India IN the World to India AND the World'
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'What lives in museums is not just objects, but the narratives we attach to these objects, and the narratives are only available in a certain language'
In the final week of the Matters of Care: Museum futures in times of
planetary precarity conference series, keynote speaker Naman Ahuja
shared enlightening thoughts on the decolonisation of museums, the globalisation of
art history and issues around the showcasing of difference and the
inability to translate one culture into the language of another. He discussed the complexities of taking ideas of a universal museum and
global art history to a non-western audience in conversation with Clare
Harris.
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