Conferences Margarida Saraiva, BABEL Cultural Organization, Macau March 25, 2022

Stolen Objects Stories – A Critical Archive

SOS - Stolen Object Stories aims to bring together academic and artistic perspectives on crossovers between imperialism, colonialism, decoloniality, heritage and creative practices of knowledge production. It aims at expanding the debate beyond traditional frontiers, be it the collection, the institution, or the nation, into the domain of ethics of care and repair.

S.O.S. – Stolen Object Stories aims to bring academic and artistic perspectives on crossovers between imperialism, colonialism, decoloniality, heritage and creative practices of knowledge production. It aims at expanding the debate beyond traditional frontiers, be it the collection, the institution, or the nation, into the domain of ethics of care and repair. This presentation will introduce the conception of SOS – Stolen Objects Stories as a collective archive and discursive platform.

How could we expand from caring for museum objects and heritage to respecting people? From the care for collections to the care for communities, nature and the planet? From preserving the objects’ materiality to the care for conditions of making those objects? How could we move from a notion of objects possession to shared ownership, from a focus on provenance and locations to one on transits and fluxes? And finally, from a history of power and violence to one justice and peace?

The project publicly stages a research process organized around stories, practices, and discourses and a search for new relations among knowledge emerging from different fields.

Margarida Saraiva

Margarida Saraiva is a researcher, curator and educator working in-between Asia and Europe, arts and cultures. She is the founder of BABEL – Cultural Organization, where she has initiated projects like Influxus, New Visions and Macau Architecture Promenade (M.A.P.). Saraiva has curated “Representing Women 19th and 20th Centuries – M.A.M. Collection” and co-curated Women Artists – 1st International Biennale of Macau (China), among other exhibitions and programmes.

Saraiva is a visiting professor of Museum Management, Exhibition Design and Research Practices at the University of Saint Joseph and Institute of Tourism Studies, with the Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Heritage Management.
Saraiva is a PhD Student in Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought at the European Graduate School (Switzerland/ Malta). Holds a Master of Arts in European Cultural Planning and Policies from De Montfort University, Leicester (U.K.), attended a Post Graduation in Museum Studies (Portugal) and is Licentiate in History by the Faculty of Humanities of Oporto University.

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