How does the relationship between heat and art extend unto politics? A
podcast reflecting on the (fictional) fire that engulfed Centre Pompidou in
Paris runs parallel to the evacuation of artworks by the museum’s firefighters.
With the conversations of the podcast between Myriam Omar Awadi, Soñ Gweha, and
Kent Chan spanning migration, the friction between artworks from the tropics
within Western art museum collections, the realities versus the optics of
decoloniality, and ultimately, speculations as to what had caused the museum
fire.
Together
the three artist – each with their own connections to the tropics – seek to
question whether these paradigm shifts in museology might inevitably lead to
the razing of museums, or if decolonisation means the eventual warming and
coming to terms with other climates.
