Repatriation from the universal museum: Iyagbon's mirror as a performance of minor-universals

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    Abstract (may include machine translation)

    In 2020 Mwazulu Diyabanza of the Yanka Nku Panafrican movement demonstratively entered a series of museums in France and Belgium and stole back African art works declairing they had been looted in the first place. This act of counter appropriation sent a wave of responses from legal to artistic around Europe. One of these was orchestrated by Samson Ogiamien and the Onyrikon theatre, which the author joined in the capacity of a collaborating artist and theorist reflecting upon the various modes of counter appropriation (and minor universality) occurring in restitutions around Europe. This chapter describes Iyagbon's Mirror, the performance work that resulted.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationMinor Universality/Universalité mineure
    Subtitle of host publicationRethinking Humanity After Western Universalism/Penser l'humanité après l'universalisme occidental
    EditorsMarkus Messling, Jonas Tinius
    PublisherDe Gruyter
    Pages265-282
    Number of pages18
    ISBN (Electronic)9783110798494
    ISBN (Print)9783110798487
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 7 Aug 2023

    Keywords

    • Appropriation
    • Benin Bronzes
    • Casts
    • Copies
    • Nigeria
    • Repatriation

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