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Il gabinetto, nella misura in cui assolve la funzione di theatrum  mundi, è uno dei primi e più compiuti tentativi di costituire il mondo come visione. (…) Collezionare cose materiali e dare loro un ordinamento, pongono il

soggetto ordinatore all’interno di quello stesso sistema d’ordine”

E.Hooper-Greenhill, I  musei  e  la  formazione  del  sapere,  Il Saggiatore, Milano 2005

I L M O N D O D E G L I O G G E T T I – D A R A C C O G L I E R E , A S S E M B L A R E E VA L U TA R E

L A VA L U TA Z I O N E D E L L O S PA Z I O : D A C H I , D O V E E C O M E ?

M E L A * : E U R O P E A N M U S E U M S I N A N A G E O F M I G R A T I O N S W W W. M E L A - P R O J E C T. E U

the ruined archive

edited by Iain Chambers, Giulia Grechi, Mark Nash

the ruined archive edited by Iain Cham

bers, Giulia G

rechi, Mark N

ash

the ruined archiveHow does the modern museum respond to the movement, migrations and mobilities of the modern world that exceed its practices and premises? The essays in this volume circulate in the constellation of cultural, postcolonial and museum studies to propose a series of intersecting perspectives promoting critical responses to this ongoing interrogation. Memory, the archive, and the politics of display, are unwound from their institutional moorings and allowed to drift into other, frequently non-authorised accounts of time and space. Called upon to negotiate unplanned encounters with unsuspected actors and the obscured sides of modernity, the museum becomes an experimental space, a laboratory for a cultural democracy yet to come.With contributions by: Fernanda Albuquerque, Chiara Baravalle, Giuseppe Biscottini, Francisco Cabanzo, Iain Chambers, Maria Inígo Clavo, Lidia Curti, Alessandra De Angelis, Beatrice Ferrara, Jessica Fiala, Giulia Grechi, Celeste Ianniciello, Jan-Erik Lundström, Olga Fernández López, Mark, Nash, Mariangela Orabona, Michaela Quadraro, Claire Pajaczkowska,

EDITORSIain Chambers teaches Cultural, Postcolonial and Mediterranean Studies at the University of Naples, “Orientale”. Giulia Grechi is a curator and teaches Visual Anthropology and Contemporary Art at the Fine Art School of Brera in Milan. Mark Nash is a curator and teaches at Birkbeck College London and in the Whitney Independent Study programme, New York.

MeLa–European Museums in an age of migrations

isbn xxx-xx-xxxxx-xx-x

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cover image — Zineb Sedira, Haunted House, 2006, courtesy of the artist

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