In the last months I have been involved in a project according to which I have to introduce children to Prehistory by means of the collection held in the Museum of Prehistory of Rome “L. Pigorini”, named after the nineteenth-century Italian pioneer of prehistoric and ethnographic collections Luigi Pigorini. Many times, in front of his bronze statue, children asked me why he has spent so long time abroad collecting objects and why, finally, he ceased travelling starting displaying the whole of hi… Continue

A research exhibition 2006-2007 by Jamelie Hassan...

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6371/is_99/ai_n29464462
http://www.ottawaartgallery.ca/exhibits/2007/orientalism_and_ephemera/index-en.php

It is quite comforting that there is someone else in the world who had an idea as great as we had about the construction of a Museum of the Occident. The fact that these people call their bulding "Museum of the Islamic [sic] art" is just a detail, such as their unlimited money are details we don't care (we are rich of idea!, some good guy could say)...Self-interpretation and -representation: I wonder if there is a spy among us...


http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1263308… Continue

Hello MOTO people of the world.

A quick recap note from a brief encounter regarding MOTO. The Tehran Biennial [www.biennialtehran.com] is in Berlin this month, MOTO was invited through Kaya, to partake. After some scatter of discussion - we were thinking that a simple intervention would suffice at this point. The idea being that we would send a "letter" to the curators of the biennial, regarding an "object" that is lost/hasn't arrive/etc. and therefore would be unable to be displayed at the Bie… Continue

This is a link to a review of the exhibition Occidentalism which took place in Cairo a while back: http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/nafas/articles/2007/occidentalism