Lions Attacking a Dromedary: The Verreaux brothers, imperial taxidermy, and postmortem bodily rights

IF 1 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Miranda A. M. Niittynen PhD
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Lions Attacking a Dromedary created at Maison Verreaux brings up a larger discussion about representations of racialized bodies (real and synthetic) in the history of museum display. Looking to the history of racialized bodies on display, I outline how taxidermied animals and racialized mannequins oscillate to reinforce continual colonial projects of the present. I show my reader how the construction of a ‘specimen’ is used in the dehumanizing processes that shapes who and what is human: a recognizable being that is (borrowing from Judith Butler) grievable upon death. Since the discovery of real human remains inside the racialized mannequin, the group is now redisplayed at the Carnegie Museum alongside educational insights that seek to ethically interrupt the colonial violence that the display narrates. In order to push this discussion further, I seek direction from decolonial artists and scholars on the best approaches to take in response to postmortem human rights abuses (past and present) and to show the ways that art can be both a destructive and reparative exchange.

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狮子攻击Dromedary:Verreaux兄弟、帝国动物标本制作和尸检身体权利
由Maison Verreaux创作的“狮子攻击单峰骆驼”引发了一场关于博物馆展览历史上种族化身体(真实的和合成的)表现的更大讨论。回顾展出的种族化身体的历史,我概述了动物标本和种族化人体模型如何振荡,以加强当前持续的殖民项目。我向我的读者展示了一个“标本”的构建是如何在非人化的过程中被使用的,这个过程塑造了谁是人类,什么是人类:一个可识别的存在(借用朱迪思巴特勒的话说)在死亡时是悲伤的。自从在这个种族化的人体模型中发现了真正的人类遗骸后,这群人现在在卡内基博物馆重新展出,同时展出的还有教育见解,这些见解试图从道德上打断展览所讲述的殖民暴力。为了进一步推动这一讨论,我向非殖民艺术家和学者寻求指导,探讨应对(过去和现在)死后人权侵犯的最佳方法,并展示艺术既可以是破坏性的,也可以是修复性的交流方式。
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