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Only Collections in the Building

Only Collections in the Building

Written by: Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp
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Only Collections In The Building, hosted by Heba Abd El Gawad and Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp, asks what it means in practice to put people before collections by sharing our experience working together on All Eyes on Her!, a community-collaborative exhibition at the Horniman. Activists, artists, and indigenous practitioners are being invited to intervene in or disrupt museum spaces with the aim to bring change. In this series we explore how meaningful collaboration relies on much larger structural or professional changes that they rarely have the power to implement.


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Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp
Episodes
  • Unpinning Colonialism

    Unpinning Colonialism
    Mar 21 2025
    Heba and Johanna investigate what a packet of Egyptian headscarf pins from the 1990s can reveal about everyday resistance, and how this is hidden through museum practice.

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    26 mins
  • I don't accept Horniman's gift!

    I don't accept Horniman's gift!
    Mar 21 2025
    I don't Accept Horniman's Gift!

    Johanna and Heba, interviewing Nathalie Cooper (University of Warwick), explore the limits of good intentions and how inherited stories of public generosity impact on our ability to tell truthful histories in the present.

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    29 mins
  • Money! Money! Money!

    Money! Money! Money!
    Mar 21 2025
    Heba and Johanna drill down into the decisions made about where money is spent, and how perceptions of museums as well funded institutions impact on trust.

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    27 mins
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