Musée d’ethnographie de Genève is a major ethnographic museum presenting global cultures through permanent and temporary exhibitions, collections, research and public programmes. The museum hosts concerts, film cycles, workshops and a specialised library, housed in a distinctive pagoda‑inspired contemporary building that emphasises dialogue, decolonisation and sustainability.
Mi Mawai and Madzerokai present an immersive audiovisual installation born from a residency exchange between the Brazilian Amazon and Geneva. The work invites immersion in Baniwa cosmology through video, layered soundscapes, flutes, traditional singing and dance. Visitors are invited to lie in hammocks and on mats for contemplative encounters with projected landscapes and ritual sonic textures. The piece foregrounds ancestral knowledge, collective memory and multisensory modes of storytelling.
Photographer Kristina Yenza presents Younist’, her photo book, and screens her short film Youth of Kyiv (2025, 2’41’’). In a discussion about her ongoing projects, Yenza examines visual approaches, youth perspectives and the everyday realities shaping a new Ukrainian generation. Philippe Mathez, conservator of visual anthropology collections, contributes contextual insights and reflections on archival and documentary practices.
Guided visits of the temporary exhibition offer a thematic exploration of heritage and matrimoine through objects, photographs and installations. Curatorial narrative examines material culture, memory and identity, highlighting domestic artefacts, archival materials and contemporary practices. Visits are paced to encourage close looking and discussion, with attention to conservation, provenance and intercultural exchanges. The tours foreground under-represented histories and the material traces of everyday life.
In French.
An interpretive tour built around a selection of objects from the permanent collection that examines cultural sensibilities toward death.
Through funerary objects and everyday artifacts, the visit traces diverse conceptions of mortality across continents and historical periods. It probes how communities ritualize dying, commemorate the dead, and integrate loss into social life, revealing how material culture and ritual practice shape collective and personal experiences of death.
Hyacinthe Ravet, professor of sociomusicology at Sorbonne University’s Faculty of Letters and researcher at the Institut de Recherche en Musicologie, presents “What Is an Orchestra? Sociomusicological Enquiries.” Drawing on thirty years of field research inside orchestras, she examines individual career paths, the processes that produce collective cohesion, and the identity of the ensemble. The lecture offers analytical perspectives on authority, collaboration and musical practice within orchestral life.
In French.
Amandine Casadamont and Madeleine Leclair present a live sound creation using vinyl records drawn from their distinct yet resonant collections. The performance weaves musical traditions of the Tout-monde with experimental, concrete and ambient practices, exploring texture, repetition and montage. Intimate and attentive, the set focuses on listening as a shared sculpted experience, moving between ritual echoes and electronic abstraction through delicate turntable gestures and live manipulation.
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