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Displays of Inhumanity and the Inhumanity of Displays: Dialogue at the Junctures of Contemporary Art, Museum Collections and Hate Speech

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The authors engage in a conversation about an exhibition held in Valletta, Malta in 2021. The exhibition dealt with the proliferation of hate speech in the country, particularly on social media, and the authors discuss topics like dehumanisation, humiliation and nation in relation to art, coloniality and museum spaces. The authors discuss the limits of organised educational encounters in the context of exhibitions like this but argue that art in institutional spaces needs to pursue a path of transformative resistance.

Keywords: art and social media ; curation ; dehumanisation ; ethics ; Hate speech ; institutional critique ; misogyny ; nation ; power

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Displays of Inhumanity and the Inhumanity of Displays: Dialogue at the Junctures of Contemporary Art, Museum Collections and Hate Speech
Intellect , 13 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789389135_3
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