Beni culturali in Alto Adige

Section 88: Views from Inner to Outer Compartments

Ed. 3/7 + 5 AP

Video mono-canale HD video, a colori, senza audio (+ testo di accompagnamento).

"Section 88: Views from Inner to Outer Compartments" è un video che, attraverso la narrazione di eventi della cui veridicità non possiamo essere certi, accompagna chi guarda in un viaggio all’interno di spazi museali vuoti. L’opera interroga il senso e lo statuto dell’istituzione museale in contesti geografici differenti da quelli europei e americani e le politiche di marketing culturale e politico adottate da alcuni musei prestigiosi che aprono nuove sedi all’estero. Per Raad la finzione diventa un mezzo per denunciare in modo corrosivo le politiche neocoloniali.

Accanto al video è presente il seguente testo di accompagnamento:

At the opening of a museum of modern art in an Arab city, a proud local resident rushes the entrance only to find that she is unable to proceed.
Was it her casual wear at an event announced as a black-tie affair? No.
Was it the thugs who are shielding the ruling classes attending the event en masse to showcase their benevolence and refined sensibilities who prevent her access? No.
She fears that were she to walk in, she will "hit a wall” and/or were she to walk in, where everyone else sees hanging artworks, she will see "nothing.”
On the spot, she turns to face the crowd and screams: “Be careful. Don’t go in. Nothing here to see.”
Within seconds, she is removed from the site, beaten and sent to a psychiatric facility.
The next day, a local newspaper’s headline announces: “Demented Woman Disturbs Opening: Claims Museum Walls Fake and Filled with Nothing.”