ABSTRACT
In her essay, Deliss analyses an artwork by indigenous Fijian/New Zealand artist Luke Willis Thompson in which he turns around the restitution of human remains held in ethnographic museums into a discussion on contemporary practices of repatriation performed under the radar of contemporary civic society. Deliss interviews Luke Willis Thompson and asks him to reconsider his artwork ten years later. The essay opens up debates on artistic interventions and the remediation of the colonial past providing an alternative political and ethical approach to restitution.
