“Memory is your museum, your cabinet of curiosities, your 'Wunderkammer.' It will never be full; there is always room for something new and strange and marvellous. It will never need dusting. It will last as long as you do. You can't let the public in to walk around it, but you can take out the exhibits and share them, share what you know. You will never be able to stop collecting.”
- Jan Mark, The Museum Book: A Guide to Strange and Wonderful Collections
From the ongoing exhibition called Keshkala at the Bihar Museum that will be hosting the second Museum Biennale, an innovative concept that brings together museums across the world to exchange ideas on the role of museums and how they can become interactive spaces and not just a showcase of objects. The video is a take on the mythological character of Draupadi and the politics of hair. Bihar Museum has collaborated with SANGH — Centre for South Asian Studies at Ghent University, Belgium — to present ‘Keshkala, the art of hair in India’, which again is a subversive take on hair as art as part of the culture in India.
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Outlook, as a collaborator with Bihar Museum, looks at the meanings and interpretations of objects and exhibitions as part of an ongoing conversation on museums as keepers of public memory and politics
