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Collaboration with indigenous students from Chittagong Hill Tracts

The second project stage has just kicked off in Zurich

The project team in front of the museum entrance (left to right): Zing Ruat Par Bawm, Ana Riciard, Thongpong Mro, Mareile Flitsch, Ralong Khumi, Rebekka Sutter, Zoneikim Pangkhua, Thierry Schneeberger, Amir Mommartz and U Shamong Kheyang. Sheila Honegger is not in the picture.
The project team in front of the museum entrance (left to right): Zing Ruat Par Bawm, Ana Riciard, Thongpong Mro, Mareile Flitsch, Ralong Khumi, Rebekka Sutter, Zoneikim Pangkhua, Thierry Schneeberger, Amir Mommartz and U Shamong Kheyang. Sheila Honegger is not in the picture.

The museum hosts an ongoing project where students from Zurich are working alongside with indigenous students from the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh. The project ties in with the exhibition  "Recollecting Lorenz Löffler" (2021–2022).

After the Swiss students’ trip to Dhaka and Southeastern Bangladesh, their counterparts made it to Switzerland. Zing Ruat Par Bawm, U Shamong Kheyang, Ralong Khumi, Thongpong Mro and Zoneikim Pangkhua belong to the different minority groups that Löffler did field research with in the 1950s and they are tremendously curious to discover the sound archive and objects of their ancestors.

A small installation  at the museum offers first insights into the project (29 June to 28 July 2024): On the one hand, various impressions of the conflict situation; on the other hand, today’s material culture as well as challenges and joys of the ongoing student collaboration.

As an opening event, on the 29 June, 2 pm, the students warmly invite visitors to a short presentation and are looking forward to meeting people interested in their historical and present livelihoods.

Follow the project’s Instagram account cht.collab.ch to be updated.

The students from the Chittagong Hill Tracts – Ralong Khumi, Thongpong Mro, Zing Ruat Par Bawm, Zoneikim Pangkhua and U Shamong Kheyang – discuss with conservator Robert Tobler a gourd pipe in the museum's collection.
The students from the Chittagong Hill Tracts – Ralong Khumi, Thongpong Mro, Zing Ruat Par Bawm, Zoneikim Pangkhua and U Shamong Kheyang – discuss with conservator Robert Tobler a gourd pipe in the museum's collection.

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