68 Above: Textile from Seram Island in Indonesia that inspired the composition Webmechanismen by Tobias Hagedorn. Weltkulturen Museum. Photo: Wolfgang Günzel. Below: Javanese ikat that served as the basis for Raphaël Languillat’s musical composition Vision of the Cosmic Light. Silk, silver thread. Weltkulturen Museum. Photo: Wolfgang Günzel. Left: Mask, tatanua. New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. © Landesmuseum Hannover. Bottom: Buffalo mask, nyati. Cameroon. © Landesmuseum Hannover. MUSEUM news Oceania. Now in the twenty-fi rst century and sensitive to these issues, the Landesmuseum is presenting a thoughtprovoking refl ection on the subject in the form of Heikles Erbe: Koloniale Spuren bis in die Gegenwart (A Delicate Legacy: Colonial Traces in Modern Times), on view until February 26, 2017. This show examines Germany’s relationships with areas like the Bismarck Archipelago, Matty Island, Samoa, and East Africa, among others. By looking at the past, it strives to develop a clearer perception that will help shape the future. The Common Thread FRANKFURT—The Weltkulturen Museum is presenting an unusual comparative exhibition on textiles. On view until August 27, 2017, the works in Der Rote Faden: gedanken Spinnen Muster Bilden (The Common Thread: The Warp and Weft of Thinking) are drawn from the museum’s collection and together illustrate the diversity of the creative techniques used in the Americas, Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Africa. Leading with the understanding that textiles are common to the vast majority of the world’s cultures, the exhibition demonstrates to what extent our languages, belief systems, and myths are rife with references to the fundamental principles of this tradition. Moving beyond a simple aesthetic approach to these varied objects, the show also presents the works of artists and composers who were invited to interpret the symbolism of the works and explore their connection with the contemporary world. For example, two artists created an installation examining the relationships between the textiles and the digital world, and young composers from the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts used the patterns of Indonesian textiles from the museum’s collection as the basis for a sound installation. An Uncomfortable Legacy HANOVER—Although it was relatively brief, German colonial activity was intense and resulted in the formation of comprehensive ethnographic collections destined for museums, one of which was the Landesmuseum. Certain issues are inherent in the management of a collection that dates from a bygone era, especially one characterized by the affi rmation of European hegemony over faraway peoples rather than emphasizing the traditional systems of social organization among the peoples of Africa and
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