Reframing PJU, a contribution to current discussions on the decolonisation of museum collections and the development of experimental qualitative research methods.

The idea is to experiment with a combination of emerging digital and artistic methods of inquiry in order to reframe the photographs and films produced by Dutch anthropologist Paul Julien during the last decades of colonisation of various countries on the African continent. This reframing will be done in several ways. Firstly through crowd-sourcing information with those whose communities and (now) histories were depicted by Julien by sharing his pictures on social media. Secondly by the production of artistic responses to the collection with members of several of these communities. And thirdly, the process and an analysis of it will be made public in an experimental mode of academic publishing, which in turn will be subjected to reflection and analysis by the applicants and other peers.