Jimmie Durham
The Museum of European Normality is an installation set up as a parody of a documentation centre with socio-anthropological pretensions. It includes videos, maps, images from books and other sorts of documentation material. In one of the projects presented in the Museum, visitors can volunteer to donate their head to the Maoris in New Zealand. Facts and figures are presented as if part of a study, together with maps showing migration patterns across Europe, shaping our European Normality. An anti-guest book is displayed at the entrance, with more than 5.000 names of people who have died trying to immigrate to Europe or in refugee camps.