The Post-Truth-Museum
Three «white-old-male» museum directors from the Prussian Heritage Foundation, The Louvre and the British Museum speaking the truth about their imperial plunder. Them confessing crimes, speaking about healing, restitution, shame or art as critical knowledge. We can live in a world like this. The video work contains various AI-based technologies: the artist becomes a puppeteer and commits a performative «identity theft» from those who are usually responsible for appropriating the identities of entire «other» cultures (through material objects). She appropriates their faces and voices and thus creates a new positive imaginary world of the possible. The texts and quotes were written by engaged scholars - some of them specially created for the work. These collective voices range from the sensitive to the furious.
Biography
NA is a multi-disciplinary and conceptual media artist with a German-Iraqi background. Her works are research-based as well as paradisciplinary and decolonial. She lives and works in Berlin. She graduated in political sciences at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main and is now a lecturer at the ETH in Zurich.