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

Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll

doi:10.1515/9783110798494-016

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

Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll^*

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Department of Historical Studies

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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 language	English
Title of host publication	Minor Universality/Universalité mineure
Subtitle of host publication	Rethinking Humanity After Western Universalism/Penser l'humanité après l'universalisme occidental
Editors	Markus Messling, Jonas Tinius
Publisher	De Gruyter
Pages	265-282
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9783110798494
ISBN (Print)	9783110798487
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110798494-016
State	Published - 7 Aug 2023

Keywords

Appropriation
Benin Bronzes
Casts
Copies
Nigeria
Repatriation

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von Zinnenburg Carroll, K. (2023). Repatriation from the universal museum: Iyagbon's mirror as a performance of minor-universals. In M. Messling, & J. Tinius (Eds.), Minor Universality/Universalité mineure: Rethinking Humanity After Western Universalism/Penser l'humanité après l'universalisme occidental (pp. 265-282). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110798494-016

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