Museums and Communities: Curators, Collections and Collaboration
Editat de Viv Golding, Wayne Modesten Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 mar 2013
În literatura academică dedicată muzeologiei, conceptul de „comunitate” este adesea utilizat ca un termen generic, lipsit de rigoare critică, ce tinde să ignore complexitatea identităților reale. Descoperim în volumul Museums and Communities o intervenție necesară care completează această lacună, chestionând mecanismele prin care instituțiile culturale pot trece de la incluziunea pur simbolică la o colaborare autentică. Sub coordonarea editorilor Viv Golding și Wayne Modest, lucrarea refuză soluțiile facile ale corectitudinii politice, propunând în schimb o analiză a tensiunilor ce apar atunci când principiile teoretice întâlnesc agenda fluidă a grupurilor sociale vii.
Subliniem rigoarea structurii acestui volum publicat de Bloomsbury Academic, care organizează cele 16 contribuții în jurul unor axe fundamentale: validitatea conceptului de comunitate și redistribuirea autorității curatoriale. Prin studii de caz diverse — de la proiecte de co-curatoriat cu adolescenți la Horniman Museum, până la dialogul intercultural cu migranții în Italia sau proiecte colaborative în Taiwan — textul oferă o perspectivă globală asupra practicilor contemporane. Volumul extinde cadrul propus de Collaboration and Co-Creation in Museums, Heritage, and the Arts cu date noi din realitatea imediată a muzeelor de antropologie și istorie, punând accent pe modul în care agenția comunităților modifică fundamental etosul muzeal.
Recomandăm această lectură pentru modul în care reușește să decorticheze termeni precum „participare” și „parteneriat”, demonstrând că o colaborare reală necesită adesea o renegociere a puterii deținute de curator. Stilul este academic, dar ancorat în experiențe practice directe, fiind esențial pentru înțelegerea noilor strategii de mediere culturală într-un peisaj social tot mai contestat.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0857851314
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 154 x 232 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
De ce să citești această carte
Această carte este indispensabilă profesioniștilor din muzee și studenților la studii culturale care doresc să înțeleagă dincolo de teorie ce înseamnă munca participativă. Cititorul câștigă o viziune critică asupra modului în care colecțiile pot fi reinterpretate prin colaborare, evitând capcanele reprezentării superficiale. Este un instrument practic pentru oricine dorește să transforme muzeul într-un spațiu de dialog autentic și incluziune reală.
Descriere
The book unpacks taken-for-granted notions such as scholarship, community, participation and collaboration, which can gloss over the complexity of identities and lead to tokenistic claims of inclusion by museums. Over sixteen chapters, well-respected authors from the US, Australia and Europe offer a timely critique to address what happens when museums put community-minded principles into practice, challenging readers to move beyond shallow notions of political correctness that ignore vital difference in this contested field.
Contributors address a wide range of key issues, asking pertinent questions such as how museums negotiate the complexities of integrating collaboration when the target community is a living, fluid, changeable mass of people with their own agendas and agency. When is engagement real as opposed to symbolic, who benefits from and who drives initiatives? What particular challenges and benefits do artist collaborations bring? Recognising the multiple perspectives of community participants is one thing, but how can museums incorporate this successfully into exhibition practice?
Students of museum and cultural studies, practitioners and everyone who cares about museums around the world will find this volume essential reading.
Cuprins
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Viv Golding, University of Leicester, UK
Part One: Community Matters?
Collaborative Museums: Curators, Communities, Collections - Viv Golding, University of Leicester, UK
The City, Race, and the Creation of a Common History at the Virginia Historical Society - Eric Gable, University of Mary Washington, USA
Negotiating the Power of Art: Tyree Guyton and Detroit Communities - Bradley L. Taylor, University of Michigan, USA
Learning to Share Knowledge: Collaborative Projects In Taiwan - Marzia Varutti, University of Leicester, UK
Community Engagement, Curatorial Practice and Museum Ethos in Alberta Canada - Bryony Onciul, Newcastle University, UK
Co-Curating with Teenagers at the Horniman Museum - Wayne Modest, Tropenmuseum, the Netherlands
Part Two: Sharing Authority?
Museums, Migrant Communities and Intercultural Dialogue in Italy - Serena Iervolino, University of Leicester, UK
Community Consultation and the Redevelopment of Manchester Museum's Ancient Egypt Galleries - Karen Exell, University College London, Qatar, Doha
'Shared Authority': Collaboration, Curatorial Voice and Exhibition Design in Canberra Australia - Mary Hutchison, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Australia
One Voice to Many Voices?: Displaying Polyvocality in an Art Gallery - Rhiannon Mason, Chris Whitehead, and Helen Graham, Newcastle University, UK
A Question of Trust: Addressing Historical Injustices with Romani-people - Åshild Andrea Brekke, Arts Council, Norway
Part Three: Audiences and Social Justice? Audience Experiences?
Creolising the Museum: Humour, Art and Young Audiences - Viv Golding, University of Leicester, UK
Museums and Civic Engagement: Children Making a Difference - Elizabeth Wood, Indiana University-Purdue University, USA
Community Consultation in the Museum: The 2007 Bicentenary of Britain's Abolition of the Slave Trade - Kalliopi Fouseki, University College London, UK and Laurajane Smith. Australian National University, Australia
Interpreting the Shared Past Within the World Heritage Site of Göreme, Cappadocia Turkey - Elizabeth Carnegie, University of Sheffield, UK and Hazel Tucker, University of Otago, New Zealand
Testimony, Memory and Art at the Jewish Holocaust Museum Melbourne Australia - Andrea Witcomb, Deakin University, Australia
Afterword - A View from the Bridge in Conversation with Susan Pearce - Kirstin James, University of Leicester, UK, Petrina Foti, University of Leicester, UK and the Editors
Index
Recenzii
Museums and Communities thoroughly and unflinchingly interrogates the widely touted goal of collaborative museum work, providing a realistic assessment of the risks and pitfalls, but also the incredible rewards that come with a deep curatorial commitment to working collaboratively.
All too often museums invoke the idea of "community" in naïve and uncritical ways. Here at last is an attempt to complicate this construction, unpick its politics, and explore its dynamics in the context of museum exhibition, engagement and outreach. This book has much to teach us about how museums imagine their communities and reminds us of the need to develop more sophisticated approaches to collaborative museology.