Public conversation
by Friederike Landau (Vancouver/Berlin) and Avni Sethi, founder-director and main curator of the Conflictorium – Museum of
Conflict (Ahmedabad, India).
Friederike Landau and Avni Sethi engage with timely questions of conflict and care in times of
crisis. How do crises such as COVID-19 exacerbate existing systemic challenges such as hyper-individuality, competition, and
lack of psychological support? How do self-organized cultural workers respond to crises, both artistically and mentally? How
can museums, in times of crisis, provide cultural infrastructures of care, for artists as well as longing audiences and local
neighbors? How to (re)present smoldering conflict in these already heavily burdensome times? What good is it, in the end,
to openly engage with conflicts in museum contexts rather than to suppress them?
