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IIP (International Inventories Programme)

@iip_program

IIP is an international research and database project that investigates a corpus of Kenyan objects held in cultural institutions across the globe.

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Joined November 2018
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IIP is winding down. A BIG THANK YOU to everyone who has supported us over the years! If you want to contact us in the future, please use email: mail@inventoriesprogramme.org
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IIP MANIFESTO #1
Artwork: Stephanie Nyairo © 2022 - Commissioned by IIP instagram.com/stephanienyairo/

ALT Artwork: Stephanie Nyairo © 2022 - Commissioned by IIP instagram.com/stephanienyairo/

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IIP MANIFESTO #2
Artwork: Ian Rosen © 2022

ALT Artwork: Ian Rosen © 2022

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Here's a link to the last online opening on our youtube page where we have also lined up other videos that will guide you through our work🙂 youtube.com/watch?v=9IYIb5O0…
EXHIBITION OPENING | Tuesday Oct 5 2021 | Live Stream - Weltkulturen...

EXHIBITION OPENING | Tuesday Oct 5 2021 | Live Stream - Weltkulturen...

The ”Invisible Inventories: Questioning Kenyan Collections in Weste...

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Njeri Gachihi tells us about the mass of 32,500+ objects & making them visible, "shipping labels" that are a representation of each of them. The labels carry an impression of movement for these objects, each with a description of what it is, where it is & when it moved to there.
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...about museuming with Dr. Njoki Ngumi. The exhibition #InvisibleInventories is still showing at the @weltkulturenffm till January, make a plan and drop in :) youtu.be/q-VmyQrj6t4
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also look at this by @njokingumi from @thisisthenest refering to a very sacred drum from the Pokomo community that nobody but British Museum employees have had access to or even seen for probably over 100 years. About the premise of Museuming youtube.com/watch?v=q-VmyQrj…
Displaying Absence Tuzi Creatives' (2020–2021) Digital Illustrative prints on Forex with Perspex empty casings showed first in Nairobi with 10 selected works for objects that were not available there, these imagined digital reproductions finally meet the objects in Frankfurt
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Juma Ondeng’ speaks @weltkulturenffm, giving other perspectives on the Man-eaters of Tsavo: "The lions are believed to have been spirits of our forefathers resisting the invasion by the British colonial invaders..." Did you know they are in display at the Field Museum in Chicago?
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...an exhibition about missing historic and culturally significant objects. 32,501 + objects inventoried in 30 institutions from 7 countries spread across Europe & the USA Take a peek at the mass & context👇🏽 inventoriesprogramme.org/exp… Weltkulturen Museum; Photo: Peter Wolff 2021
Exhibition view “Invisible Inventories: Questioning Kenyan Collections in Western Museums“; Weltkulturen Museum; Photo: Peter Wolff 2021

ALT Exhibition view “Invisible Inventories: Questioning Kenyan Collections in Western Museums“; Weltkulturen Museum; Photo: Peter Wolff 2021

Exhibition view “Invisible Inventories: Questioning Kenyan Collections in Western Museums“; Weltkulturen Museum; Photo: Peter Wolff 2021

ALT Exhibition view “Invisible Inventories: Questioning Kenyan Collections in Western Museums“; Weltkulturen Museum; Photo: Peter Wolff 2021

Exhibition view “Invisible Inventories: Questioning Kenyan Collections in Western Museums“; Weltkulturen Museum; Photo: Peter Wolff 2021

ALT Exhibition view “Invisible Inventories: Questioning Kenyan Collections in Western Museums“; Weltkulturen Museum; Photo: Peter Wolff 2021

Exhibition view “Invisible Inventories: Questioning Kenyan Collections in Western Museums“; Weltkulturen Museum; Photo: Peter Wolff 2021

ALT Exhibition view “Invisible Inventories: Questioning Kenyan Collections in Western Museums“; Weltkulturen Museum; Photo: Peter Wolff 2021

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"...for them to be back here it would be able to even give us pride; as a Kikuyu, as a Luo; this is my culture, this is what I know, this is where I belong, this is what we used to do." The #invisibleinventories is currently showing @weltkulturenffm Museum in Frankfurt am Main.
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Simon from the #SHIFT collective points at his view changing in what he saw from the objects from the IIPs work "...the way we look at these objects changes, so they become evidence." The exhibition is on view at the @weltkulturenffmin Frankfurt, pass by and see this evidence?
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