What ist 99 Questions?
99 Questions is a research-led program platform that builds on practices of acquiring, sustaining, and sharing knowledge within a complex epistemic network that transcends national borders and natural boundaries. Engaged in scholarship beyond (museum) collections, 99 Questions is research and practice at the same time. The project concerns itself with situated knowledge and narratives, posing critical questions on hegemonies within the museum complex.
99 Questions is an attempt to understand the museum as a decentralized structure and transform it into a vibrant space for exchange. There is no concrete center and therefore no periphery – with its unique geographic characteristics, every place contributes equally to a pluralistic narrative. The project is based upon a methodology revolving around and developed during gatherings defined as “research nodes” or “knots.” We understand the research nodes as a series of interconnected points that create a larger, stable whole, drawing on the meaning the metaphor of the nodes (or knots) holds across different languages and cultures. In the course and context of this series of ‘events of knowledge,’ curation is employed as a dynamic process that promotes world-building, highlights the plurality of cosmologies, and fosters collaborative learning. The exchanges pinpoint local specific issues and questions which interweave in the grand scheme of the 99 Questions project to create meaningful spaces for collectively gaining and sharing knowledge, where gathering beyond the hierarchization of knowledge, remembrance, and ideas becomes possible.
99 Questions is dedicated to exploring multi-perspective future-making and speculative dimensions. By creating imaginative spaces and instigating reflections on divergent futures, it seeks to nurture transformative and creative thinking in curatorial practice.