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Repatriation from the universal museum : Iyagbon's mirror as a performance of minor-universals
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Appropriation
Benin Bronzes
Casts
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Nigeria
Repatriation
General Arts and Humanities
General Social Sciences
Benin Bronzes
Casts
Copies
Nigeria
Repatriation
General Arts and Humanities
General Social Sciences
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/27644
Abstract
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.
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Book chapter
Date
2023-08-07
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9783110798487
9783110798494
9783110798494
Identifiers
10.1515/9783110798494-016