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Clara Jo

24h Dahlem

Doc. expérimental | hdv | couleur | 17:13 | USA, Allemagne | 2016

“ 24h Dahlem ” examines the motivations behind the planned relocation (2019) of the ethnographic collections from the Dahlem State Museum’s the Ethnological Museum and Museum for Asian Arton the periphery of Berlin to the future site of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin Mittea site in the city center that resurrects 19th-century Prussian architectural elements stemming from classical and romantic ideals. The film moves through the different layers of the museums and archives, and seeks to deconstruct a familiar pattern in the way the city reshapes its cultural identity through physical destruction and renewalthe effects of which also relegate to the periphery objects and cultures whose narratives are not complicit with those formed within the context of Western modernization.

Clara Jo (Berlin) is a graduate of Bard College and the Institut für Raumexperimente / UdK Berlin. Her recent film and sculptural installations work in conversation with sites implicated in revisionist histories.