The conference and the performance will center on whiteness and coloniality.
Trinity Mesimé Njume-Ebong is a curator and researcher. Her work lies at the intersection of the arts and the social sciences. She wrote her master's thesis (University of Zurich) on ‘Alpine Primitivism’ and the decolonisation strategies of the Europe department at MEG under the supervision of Bernard Crettaz.
Gilles Furtwängler lives and works between Lausanne and Johannesburg. His visual production starts from orality: he transcribes and reworks words heard or read using contexts, colours and substances, in order to question our ways of thinking and representing.

1. Performance de Gilles Furtwängler 30-40minutes (FR, ENG)
2. Conference of Trinity Njume-Ebong, 30min, followed by a Q&A (ENG)

The conference of curator Trinity Njume-Ebong is an homage to the work of the late Bernard Crettaz, head curator of the MEG’s Conches Annex from 1976 - 2000, and most notably his advanced demands for the decolonization of the museum’s Alpine collection. In this conference, she explores what factors could have prompted a decolonial process of this “white“ ethnographic collection to begin with.
The performance of artist Gilles Furtwängler gathers texts written between Johannesburg in South Africa, and Lausanne Switzerland, through poetic sound performance. The conference of Trinity Njume-Ebong and the performance of Gilles Furtwängler are part of the same focus on the way in which white people see themselves and the world, or the unthought of whiteness - the privilege of not thinking of whiteness as a marker of race and its consequences.

Trinity Mesimé Njume-Ebong is a curator and researcher. Her work lies at the intersection of the arts and the social sciences. She wrote her master's thesis (University of Zurich) on "Alpine Primitivism" and the decolonisation strategies of the Europe department at MEG under the supervision of Bernard Crettaz.

Gilles Furtwängler lives and works between Lausanne and Johannesburg. His visual work is based on the spoken word: he retranscribes and reworks words heard or read, using contexts, colours and substances to challenge our ways of thinking and representing.

MEG x CCA
The Centre Culturel Afropea (CCA) is an itinerant organisation that operates in the interstices of institutions, contributing to an Afro-diasporic perspective by programming interventions by artists, researchers and performers.
As part of its ‘carte blanche’ at MEG, the CCA is organising three events: a performance by artist Brutus Labiche on Sunday 20 October 2024, open to questions from the public and in dialogue with the MEG collections; two film screenings and a conversation with curator Greg de Cuir Jr on 10 November 2024 around the film ‘Les statues meurent aussi’ (Resnais, Marker); and, finally, a lecture by Trinity Mesimé Njume-Ebongand a Gilles Furtwängler performance questioning coloniality and whiteness on Saturday 7 December 2024.
Join us in the Salon of the temporary exhibition from 6 pm to 8 pm on sunday the 7th of December.
Event is free but reservation is mandatory.