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The TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE is a digital platform looking at questions of decolonial knowledge production. Starting with objects from the collection of European and African Museums, we are fanning out a polyphonic universe of knowledge: objects are thus made to speak and serve as door openers. The archive is developed together with African Digital Heritage (Nairobi), visual intelligence, and a variety of thinkers and artists experimenting with text, images, audio and video, creating their own cosmologies of objects in the digital space.

The digital archive will be open to the public and is aimed at researchers, practitioners working in the arts and those interested in decolonial perspectives on knowledge production.

The TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE is funded by Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien/BKM (Federal Cultural Commissioner for Culture and the Media), KfW Stiftung, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Auswärtiges Amt (Federal Foreign Office) and Goethe-Institut.