CECA Conference 2025: What is the problem?
As a contribution to the 2025 CECA Conference, which focused on the theme ‘How can museums support democracy? Opportunities, limitations and challenges’, we posed a series of questions ...
What’s the problem?
What can you do in this space?
Are you acting on a particular thought or need?
How do we agree on what is acceptable?
What would we argue about?
How does the question make you feel?
What do you see?
Why do you think you see what you see?
What do you see?
Do you see a story?
What would the caption be?
This?
But who is supposed to understand it?
Why is it displayed like this in a public space?
Do you want to understand it?
Is there a risk involved?
If so, for whom?
Should we show the full translation?
What would it mean to decide that democratically?
At the conference, we had handed out pieces of paper to the audience containing the full German translation of the anti-Semitic text (see the last SLIDE 10, which we didn’t show in the end). Alongside the blank slide, we said this to the audience: “We handed these pieces of paper out to you at the start. :::
