We are happy to share that the text of our fellow Rehema Chachage and Valerie Asiimwe Amani NOTES THAT MIGHT, OR MIGHT NOT, BE ABOUT A STONE is published in Texte Zur Kunst issue No 133 | March 2024 | Restitution.

'As recent debates have shown, restitution can hardly be conceived as merely the return of looted objects. While grounded in the current political moment, restitutions unfold in relation to the past: a complex set of circumstances that they can never undo. This interplay of power relations involved in dealing with claims to pieces of cultural heritage is explored in this issue of TEXTE ZUR KUNST. Past instances of repatriating cultural assets illustrate the multidimensionality of negotiations that pave the way for restitution, and of the processes of integration that follow. The scholarly and artistic contributions to this issue also sketch the challenges and potentials of restitution.'

NOTES THAT MIGHT, OR MIGHT NOT, BE ABOUT A STONE / An Artistic Contribution by Valerie Asiimwe Amani and Rehema Chachage.

‘The gatherers of colonial collections hunted down not only artworks but also fossils. More than 230 tons of bones were dug up in the Lindi region of what was then the colony of German East Africa. Today, some of them are displayed at the Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin - most prominently in the shape of reconstructed skeleton of Giraffatition.’

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