Cultural Interventions in Ethnology
Forum for exploring museums, exhibitions and events
Cultural Interventions in Ethnology is a forum hosted by the Saxo Institute that explores and contributes to various forms of cultural intervention, e.g.:
- museums
- exhibitions
- performance art
- festivals
- other events in public spaces.
We are a group of Ethnology researchers who are passionate about finding, creating and thinking about and through the materiality activated by these forms of cultural intervention, and we hope that others will be inspired to join us.
The Ethnology section has a strong tradition of involvement with museums and material culture. We believe that our academic standards and ethnological theory will help qualify and convey forms of cultural intervention, make them even more interesting and surprising, and thereby open up a broader debate on cultural history topics. We believe that working with exhibitions is not merely a matter of technique or practical communication, but a form of analysis with immense potential.
Our aim is to create a forum in which – via the study programmes offered (BA Elective Studies in Museology, MA Elective Studies in Cultural Heritage and Museology), as well as in seminars, monthly field trips, and an annual study tour – we will be able to explore past, present and future forms of cultural intervention and use them as laboratories for ethnological analyses.
All members of the forum work on academic research into forms of cultural intervention, primarily in collaboration with museums. For example, we are currently working on exhibitions about mannequins, fashion, gold, among other fascinating subjects.