January 2012 archives
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January 24, 2012 by claude
Publicity and the museum
Brown, Michael F. (2009) Exhibiting Indigenous Heritage in the Age of Cultural Property. In Whose Culture? In J.Cuno (Ed.) The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities (pp. 145-164). Princeton: Princeton University Press. I align myself with most of Brown’s positions in this essay. In particular, Brown remarks that vested interest or conflicts can […]Archive
January 23, 2012 by jeremy
Posthuman Museum Rant
Based on: Brown, Michael F. (2009) Exhibiting Indigenous Heritage in the Age of Cultural Property. In Whose Culture? The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities. J. Cuno, ed. Pp. 145-164. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Ok, admittedly, this is quite the over-the-top Utopian rant but I figure Brown’s article gave me the perfect opportunity […]Archive
January 23, 2012 by jeremy
21st Century Nationhood and the Museum…
This response is based on: Benedict Anderson. Introduction In Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, revised edition (London: Verso. 1991); Census, Map, Museum In Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, revised edition (London: Verso. 1991), pp. 163-85. Suitable for a document made from the end-times of Communism’s […]Archive
January 23, 2012 by claude
The Human Fish : the history of exotic displays…
Clifford (1997) mentions “the long history of ‘exotic’ displays in the West. This history provides a context of enduring power imbalance within and against which the contact work of travel, exhibition, and interpretation occurs. An ongoing ideological matrix governs the understanding of ‘primitive’ people in ‘civilized’ places.” (p. 197). He then describes the famous pseudo-exotic […]Archive
January 23, 2012 by kate
Week 3: Digital Return
I just came home from an excellent workshop at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History called “After the Return: Digital Repatriation and the Circulation of Indigenous Knowledge“. In our seminar this week I will be talking about some of the themes and debates that emerged as we explored a spectrum of digital projects that […]Archive
January 22, 2012 by kate
Seminar and Tour at Museum of Vancouver
For our second seminar of the semester, we visited the Museum of Vancouver for a discussion and tour of the Neon Vancouver | Ugly Vancouver exhibit, with Curator Joan Seidl, and Curator of Public Engagement and Dialogue, Hanna Cho, who is leading the production of the museum’s virtual exhibit and mobile walking tour ‘The Visible City: […]Archive
January 21, 2012 by claude
MOMA in The Colbert Report
I just finished reading “Museum as Contact Zones” and later watched The Colbert Report in which Carrie Rebora Barratt, the Associate Director for Collections and Administration at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, discusses historical American art. What she shows, discusses and says seems to me directly related to the issues in Clifford’s article. Notice that she explains how the […]Archive
January 18, 2012 by diana
“Visual Pollution”?: A City with No Advertising
After our discussion of the debate surrounding Vancouver’s Neon signage in the 50s and 60s, I thought this clip from “Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold” about Sao Paulo Brazil was an interesting contemporary example:Archive
January 18, 2012 by kristin