How do you bring multiple voices into a museum? Film is a great way to do that, especially when you&

How do you bring multiple voices into a museum? Film is a great way to do that, especially when you’re showcasing art from somewhere an ocean away from the galleries.The exhibition One: Egúngún is accompanied by the full-length documentary film One: Egúngún Perspectives from Nigeria, featuring excerpts from interviews with eight Nigerian scholars, artists, and masquerade specialists. Presenting various forms of knowledge from speakers with different expertise, and of different ages and genders, these interviews bring multiple perspectives and additional depth to the exhibition’s presentation of a singular mid-twentieth century egúngún masquerade costume now in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum.Filmed on location in Lagos, Ilé-Ifẹ̀, Ìbàdàn, and Ògbómọ̀ṣọ́ in 2018, each interview reflects the unique experiences and knowledge of the speaker. Totaling some seven hours of raw footage, they were edited down into segments addressing key questions including: How have Yorùbá masquerades influenced popular culture? What role do oríkì (poetry) and song play in Yorùbá egúngún masquerades? What is it like to grow up with masquerade?Open captions (written out versions of the text that always appear on the in-gallery monitor) make the audio of the interviews accessible to our visitors who are deaf or hard of hearing, or for those who don’t want to use headphones.There are many ways to consider an egúngún, from the religious, to the artistic, to the philosophical, but only so much space on the exhibition walls and labels. With the addition of film in the galleries, we can bring in a wider range of perspectives and information.Keep an eye out for more excerpts from these interviews on our social media accounts in the coming weeks!Posted by Kristen Windmuller-LunaMany thanks are due to everyone who worked with me on this film. Thanks to Perrin Lathrop, Benson Eluma, and Solomon Dodo for their help with filming in Nigeria. At the Brooklyn Museum, exhibition interns Isoken Osagie and Noemi Diop for their transcriptions of the interviews, and BNIA intern Jose-Romarah Chary for her additional assistance transcribing; Anya Szykitka for editing the transcription texts and open-access captions; and Robert Nardi for editing and captioning the film. -- source link
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