Antje Majewski The World of Gimel. How to Make Objects Talk

37% installation 31% object 32% museum

Antje Majewski sets out on a very personal search for the meanings of objects in museums and other collections and confronts them with radical, artistic and curatorial questions: is it possible to replace inanimate objects of art with living things? Can objects think or speak? And can objects link their thoughts with ours? She has examined the encyclopaedic structure of the 200-year-old Universalmuseum Joanneum in this respect, and is now making the objects speak in a kind of language laboratory, a rhizomatic construct of complex connections that condenses an advanced museological experience as super-intellectual, hyper-semantic and universal. Classifications, systematisations and symbolic orders are resorted in an almost hallucinatory process of question and doubt.