Δ WORLDS IN MOTION. Narrating Migration

People have always been on the move, all around the world. As they move, they also take with them their lifestyles, language, music, and arts and crafts. Much of what is reputedly ‘authentic’ for a culture turns out, at second glance, to be an ‘import’. Starting from its own collections, the Weltkulturen Museum raises associative questions highlighting how the world’s diversity of cultures has always existed in a process of exchange. From historical settlement movements, labour migration or globalisation – people and their diverse cultures have always been in a process of constant exchange. Is migration really only a reaction to or a cause of problems – or far more a key driver for new forms of community in a constantly changing world?

Artists and participants:
Adams Bodomo, Behrouz Boochani and Arash Kamali Sarvestani, Artist Collective Teru, Shahram Entekhabi, Edzard Herlyn and Thomas Hoeren, Junges Schauspiel Frankfurt, Karinding Keos, Phyllis Kiehl, Ella Knorz, Mansuela, Gora Mbengue, Yasemin Niephaus, José Oliveira, participants of the workshop „stories that matter“, Rajery und 3MA, Safransirup, Wiparat Sukatorn, Felix Schwarz, Takayuki Tamura, Daniel Traub with Wu Yong Fu and Zeng Xian Fang, Cliff Whiting

Weltkulturen Museum
Schaumainkai 29
60594 Frankfurt
€7 / reduced €3.50

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Δ Let Them Speak! Comments from British Columbia, Canada

Exhibition and film

Tom Hunt, Kwakwaka’wakw (sculpture)
Meghann O’Brien, Haida/Kwakwaka’wakw (weaving)
Christie Lee Charles, Musqueam (rap music)
Diana Hellson, Siksika Nation (filmmaker)

With Canada set to be the guest country at Frankfurt Book Fair, the special exhibition ‘Let Them Speak! Commentaries from British Columbia, Canada’ was scheduled to take place from 7 to 21 October 2020 in the Weltkulturen Museum. Three First Nations artists would take part: the weaver Meghann O’Brien (Haida/Kwakwaka’wakw), carver Tom Hunt (Kwakwaka’wakw) and hip-hop artist Christie Lee Charles (Musqueam). The artists were invited to use their own works to comment on the museum’s historical collection from Canada.

After the Covid-19 pandemic broke out, Canada’s physical participation in the book fair was suddenly thrown into doubt, and those in charge started looking around for digital formats which could act as a substitute. Long story short: the curating team transformed the exhibition into a video project and the Canada Council for the Arts accepted the change. Soon afterwards the artists helped to find the filmmaker Diana Hellson (Siksika Nation).

With her crew from Rudegang Entertainment, filmmaker Diana Hellson will visit the three artists at specially selected locations on Vancouver Island and in Vancouver City. Thus, the film mixes views of a picturesque mountainous landscape with images from a workshop and a sound studio. The film emphasizes the artists' perspectives. They present their own art and comment on individual objects in the collection, which can be seen in the accompanying exhibition. In this way the film combines contemporary, indigenous perspectives on museums with the mainly historical collection of the Weltkulturen Museum.

This project has been developed as a cooperation between Markus Lindner (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) and Mona Suhrbier (Weltkulturen Museum). It is part of the culture program related to Canada’s Guest of Honour presentation at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2020/2021 and is supported by Canada Council for the Arts and the Government of Canada.

Weltkulturen Labor
Schaumainkai 37
60594 Frankfurt am Main

€3 / reduced €1.50
Children and young adults up to 18 years free
Opening times: Tues – Sun, 11am – 6pm, Wed, 11am – 8pm

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