A new installation at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art contains pieces selected by students in a curatorial practicum seminar offered through the Department of History of Art and Visual Studies in the College of Arts & Sciences.

Students created the installation as part of their class, which included discussions about Indonesian art, provenance, repatriation, community engagement and the changing status of Indonesian art within the canon of fine art.

“Indonesia Embodied: Performing the Space Between” complements the museum’s "Hum of Life" exhibition. The student installation will be up until the fall in the Museum’s Southeast Asia gallery on the fifth floor.

“Southeast Asian art history came into the canon during the time of the Vietnam War. Cornell was the place where so much of that was written about,” said Kaja McGowan, associate professor of history of art, who co-taught the spring curatorial seminar with Ellen Avril, the Judith H. Stoikov Curator of Asian Art and interim director of the museum. 

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