What is the use of a museum under invasion?


Gülsuyu Gülensu Dükkan hosted an event by YNKB on the 11 June 2010. YNKB, 2002 Kopenhag, is an artist collective that started in Ydre Norrebro, Kopenhagen. It consists of Thomas Ostergaard, Kirsten Dufour, “Stoffer” Michael Christensen, Anders Hvam Waago, Tine Tvergaard, Joen Vedel, Finn Thybo Andersen, Eva La Cour and Ninna Poulsen. Instead of being confined to elitist art centers the group prefers to do cultural and art events in neighborhoods where there is actual human settlement and they base their artistic production over a humanistic dimension, collective research and an intimate, generous and open relationship based on participation. From this big group, Cultural Agencies invited Kirsten and Finn to Gülsuyu. The reason for the invitation was the People’s Museum project that they did in the Bir Zeit village in Palestine. YNKB did the project together with another artist group Parfyme as well as Palestinian artists and village locals. The “People’s Museum” that opened on October 9, 2009 is still open to visitors. Project’s mobile vitrine hosted the photos of the “People’s Museum” items, some examples of the collection. After the presentation we ate the mixed vegetable meal that was prepared in the dükkan and in Aydın Kasap, then cooked at the neighbour kitchen which was the receipe from Rıza Bey.
http://www.ynkb.dk/eng/peoples%20museum-eng.shtml