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The
translocations research cluster is a
three-year long research project, which investigates the displacement
of cultural assets from a historical perspective.
The
project is funded through the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft’s
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize awarded to Prof. Dr. Bénédicte
Savoy.
Cooperations (as of September
2017):
- Collège de France, Paris
- Deutsches
Archäologisches Institut
More about translocations [3].
Participants
Direction:
Bénédicte Savoy
[4] and Eyke Vonderau [5]
Project Coordination:
Merten Lagatz [6]
Research Associates:
Dr. Felicity Bodenstein
[7]
Dr. Isabelle Dolezalek [8]
Dr. Elisabeth Furtwängler
(associated) [9]
Dr. Christine Howald [10]
Dr. Gidena Mesfin
Kebede [11]
Dr. Anne Luther [12]
Dr. Andrea Meyer [13]
Dr. Ji Young Park [14]
Dr. Robert Skwirblies [15]
Prof. Dr. Eleonora Vratskidou
[16]Mattes Lammert (associated)
[17]
Doctoral Candidates
Léa Saint-Raymond
(Paris, Collège de France)
Sebastian Willert [18]
Student Assistant:
Luca Frepoli
[19]
Nathalie Okpu [20]
Simon Lindner [21]
About the Project
The territorial displacement of cultural assets in
times of both war and peace is of greater relevance than ever and
there is no doubt that this issue represents one of the great
challenges of the twenty-first century. The implications of this issue
range from moral imperatives to shifts in cultural politics and
academic research.
The project will focus on large-scale
displacements of cultural assets since antiquity such
as: art theft and spoliation organized by the state in times of war
and occupation, seizure of cultural goods during colonialism,
displacements as a result of a partition of excavation discoveries and
research expeditions, a material diaspora of entire civilizations
expedited by the art trade, confiscations justified through ideology,
nationalisations, or en masse disposals of private property.
By shifting our concentration to the translocations as such
– the actual phenomenon of the transfer itself, with all its
traumas, discourses, actors, gestures, techniques and representations
– we hope to shed light on an important topic which has hardly been
recognized, and certainly not fully researched.
By means of
detailed research studies (Art theft and Trophy enterprise in
Antiquity | translocations and religion | “Europe and the Discovery
of the World” in the Middle Ages and early modern era | Diasporas of
Cultural Objects in recent and early modern times | Expropriation and
translocation of cultural goods in the context of the great wars of
the twentieth century) the cluster intends to produce four fundamental
projects:
- a digital
atlas
- a text collection
- a glossary
- an image repertory on the
iconography of translocated cultural goods.
These four
fundamental projects will be made accessible to the public using
web-based presentation tools. As a theoretical understanding of this
phenomenon is a main aim of the project, findings will also be shared
with the public via publications, workshops, and conferences.
The project cluster synergizes three of the Chair for Modern Art
History’s main research areas: Art Theft in a Global Context,
Transnational Museum History, and Art Markets and Provenance. Students
of the department will get to partake in the work of the cluster
through research-based learning.
Links
translocations Project
Outline
Deutsch [22] /
English [23]
Interview with Bénédicte Savoy regarding the choice of the term
translocations
English [24] / Français
[25]
Bénédicte Savoy's Interview regarding the Humboldt Forum with
Sueddeutsche Zeitung
English [26]
Cooperation Agreement with the British Museum Signed
Starting this year, the Chair for Modern Art History's translocations [27] research cluster will begin a collaboration with the British Museum in London. A cooperation agreement was signed by the director of the British Museum, Hartwig Fischer, Bénédicte Savoy, and TU President Christian Thomsen in Berlin.
This collaboration will take the form of concrete projects: A conference is currently being prepared for Fall 2018 in Berlin, a research colloquium for doctoral students and established researchers will take place at regular intervals, project seminars with TU Berlin students have been planned, and collaborations in the field of digital research will be in focus.
For further information see the TU Press Release [28]
Journal for Art Market Studies - Issue on "Translocations and the Art Market"
In early 2018 the Journal for Art Market Studies [29] is planning an issue on the subject of "Translocations and the Art Market". It will focus on the role of the art market in territorial displacements of cultural assets since antiquity. The context for this issue of the journal will be the wide research area outlined in Translocations. The issue will have circa 12 contributions.
Looted Art – Victims’ Perspectives (Winter Semester 2016/2017)
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In this BA project seminar, students worked to gain an understanding of historical and contemporary discourses surrounding the violent displacement of cultural assets. The seminar included a project, in which students used their knowledge of discourses to formulate and conduct interviews with different actors in the debate.
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