The 11th edition of the LagosPhoto Festival will be a slight deviation as attention shifts to political, civic and ramifications of restitution.
LagosPhoto, launched in 2010, is to establish a community for contemporary photography that will unite artists and ideas from all across the world.
It is the first international arts festival of photography in Nigeria.
Due to the country’s civic unrest, LagosPhoto20, Themed “Rapid Response Restitution,” will occur on November 7, 2020.
This will also include the launch of the Home Museum website.
Home Museum
Home Museum is a model for a new kind of citizens’ institution, one in which each member of society can contribute to the collective perception of cultural values.
The platform will also address questions of restitution directly and without delay.
Between May 21 and August 21, two hundred and forty individuals from around the world responded to the open call responded to Home Museum’s open call.
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The call was for an invitation to take part in co-creating a new digital museum.
The feedback was a testament to self-empowerment in image-making, both technically, aesthetically, and in terms of cultural agency.
The goal was to spark off conversations, ask questions and open up transcontinental dialogues on suppressed cultural heritage.
Home Museum triggers new ideas around museums and what they could become in the 21st century.
It is a museum driven by visual conversations and kindred narratives rather than colonial systems of classification.
What to expect from LagosPhoto20
LagosPhoto20 will host a series of online discussions on selected topics on restitution inclusive of curators, museum visitors, artists, co-creators, photographers, and members of academia.
Restitution
The talks will focus on different understandings of restitution, unpacking the connotations of the term, its reference to reparations, to the different types of artefacts it can denote, ranging from material objects to human remains.
Also, issues surrounding new functionalities for returned artefacts will be explored.
Home Conversations
“Come into my home, here is my history. This is my museum.”
These informal online gatherings will focus on the themes and reflections that have emerged from Home Museum.
It will also focus on the contents of the collections documented by each co-creator.
Additionally, guest artists, museum experts, photographers, social scientists and co-creators will explore new models for a museum of the future.
They will also analyse the different approaches mediated through photography and that evoke personal and collective memories.
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