for the outlook of associate curator Clémentine Deliss... 'for quite some time now, ethnographic museums in Europe have been compelled to legitimate themselves. Their exhibition-making has become a topic of discussion, as has the contentious history of their collections, which have come about through colonial appropriation. Clearly, this cannot continue.

That the situation can be different is something that Clémentine Deliss explores and focuses on in transdisciplinary and transcultural exchanges in her current publication. She offers an intriguing mix of autobiographically -informed novel and conceptual thesis on contemporary art and anthropology. Reflections on her own work while she was Director of Frankfurt’s Weltkulturen Museum (Museum of World Cultures) are interwoven with the explorations of influential filmmakers, artists and writers. She introduces her book, 'The the Metabolic Museum' as an interventionist laboratory for remediating ethnographic collections for future generations.'