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To give the remaining bronze casters and their families agency over what this craft will look like moving forward, the project will create a collection of digital and physical artifacts that tell three stories about Benin’s stolen cultural heritage.

  • The first story is the history of the dispersal of Benin cultural artifacts throughout the Global North as repositories of significant cultural, historical, and technical knowledge.
  • The second story follows the changes Edo bronze and brass casters have adopted as a survival mechanism while efforts for repatriation have crawled forward and stalled.
  • The third story is a speculative re-contextualization of the Western institutions as fruits of the labor of ancient bronze casters, giving them the status of rooms in the destroyed Benin palace.