Joint keynote with Helen Weinstein (Founding Director of IPUP, UK, and historyworkstv) for the 'We Curate – Kick off seminar' in Venice on June 1, 2013.
Participatory practices: inclusion, dialogue and trust in museums and academia
1. Participatory practices: inclusion,
dialogue and trust in museums and
academia
Mia Ridgehttp://miaridge.com/ http://openobjects.org.uk/ @mia_out
Helen Weinstein historyworks@gmail.comhttp://historyworks.tv/ @historyworkstv
We Curate, Venice, 1 June 2013
2. ‘Here be dragons’
• The landscape
• From knowledge
transfer to knowledge
exchange
• Learning to let go
• Challenging ‘curatorial
practice’
• Some provocations
14. Provocations
‘...If you invite people to really participate in the
making of a museum, the process must change
the museum.’
Daniel Spock (2009)
15. Provocations
• Museums and...
– The digital divide
– Climate change and food security
– 3D printers in homes
– Globalism and localism
– On-going financial crises
– State eavesdropping and censorship
– Fundamentalist religions; secularism
• What are museums for in 2013?
16. Participatory practices: inclusion,
dialogue and trust in museums and
academia
Mia Ridgehttp://miaridge.com/ http://openobjects.org.uk/ @mia_out
Helen Weinstein historyworks@gmail.comhttp://historyworks.tv/ @historyworkstv
We Curate, Venice, 1 June 2013
Editor's Notes
Keynote for the We Curate event http://www.wecurate.org/ at Signum Foundation Palazzo Donà, Campo San Polo, Venezia on Participatory practices: inclusion, dialogue and trust in museums and academia
FREE DERRY MUSEUM= EG OF COMMUNITY CURATION: WHERE THE MUSEUMS IN NORTHERN IRELAND PROBLEMATIC AND CURATION TOO SAFE OR PERCEIVED TO BE TAKING SIDES= SO THE FREE DERRY MUSEUM HAS BEEN CO-CURATED FROM THE START, SOURCING OBJECTS AND STORIES FROM THE DOMESTIC, SHOWING AND SHARING THE IMPACT OF THE TROUBLES ON FAMILY LIFE...= TAKE TROUBLES POSTER HERE: CONTENT IS POLITICAL AND CHALLENGING AND CONTESTED BUT OFFERS TALKING POINTS...http://www.museumoffreederry.org/history.html
HERITAGE & MUSEUM SITES LEARNING TOO HOW TO LISTEN TO THEIR COMMUNITIES AND CHANGE THE POWER STRUCTURES OF THEIR CURATORIAL PRACTICE= BEAMISH HAD BEEN KNOWN FOR NOSTALGIC ATTITUDE TO THE INDUSTRIAL PAST= IT IS A "LIVING HISTORY MUSEUM" WITH COSTUMED REENACTORS PEOPLING THE ATTRACTIONS= YET IN NORTHERN ENGLAND BEAMISH IS INFACT ADJACENT TO COAL AND STEEL INDUSTRIES= DEPRIVATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT HAVE BEEN ACCUTE SINCE THATCHER YEARS= THIS IS A CONTESTED PAST AND PRESENT: NOT THEREFORE APPROPRIATE TO SHOWCASE THE COAL MINING VILLAGE AND ARTEFACTS AS A NOSTALGIA: AND REALLY ENGAGING WITH COMMUNITIES AND ALLOWING EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS TO BE CO-CURATED HAS DEVELOPED A NEW ETHOS AT BEAMISH- SO CURATORS ARE ATTEMPTING TO CHANGE THE POWER RELATIONSHIP WITH THEIR PUBLIC: TO BE THE FACILITATORS FOR THE BEAMISH PROGRAMME NOW THAT SO MUCH OF THE CONTENT OF THE PROGRAMME IS DELIVERED VIA THEIR PARTICIPATORY PRACTICES- EG OF SILKWORTH: BEAMISH EVENT ABOUT THE COALSTRIKE AND EVICTIONS CO-CURATED BY LOCAL HISTORY GROUPShttps://es-la.facebook.com/BeamishLivingMuseum/posts/379924695366730
Spock, Daniel. “Museum Authority up for Grabs: The Latest Thing, or Following a Long Trend Line?” Exhibitionist no. Fall (2009): 6–10.
Keynote for the We Curate event http://www.wecurate.org/ at Signum Foundation Palazzo Donà, Campo San Polo, Venezia on Participatory practices: inclusion, dialogue and trust in museums and academia