The document discusses art activists and their relationship with museums. It provides examples of projects led by Platform including Black History Walks, Walking London's Empire of Slavery, and critiques of museum collections and exhibitions. The document outlines Platform's goal of progressive curation and placing underrepresented histories in museum spaces through collaborative projects.

1. Art-Activists and the Museum
Jane Trowell
Platform

3. From: London Under London

4. Adapted from London Under London

5. Image: Nick Stewart

6. Museum Detox
Black History Walks
People’s History
Progressive curatorship

7. Museum of the Corporation
2004

11. Images: Platform and Argument by Design

12. Old Bengal Warehouse, East India Company, New Street, London, 1771

13. Walking London’s Empire of Slavery
2007
A Platform course, at Birkbeck
• British Museum
• National Maritime Museum
• East India Docks
• Museum in Docklands
• City of London

15. The East offering its riches
to Britannia,
Roma Spiradione 1778
Enlightenment Gallery
British Museum, founded 1753

16. Africa Galleries, Basement, British Museum

17. Gas flared by oil companies in the Niger Delta
Ogoni writer and campaigner Ken Saro-Wiwa

18. ‘Carbon Map’, commissioned from UHC Collective, 2007

19. London’s oil sponsorship map 2010

20. Publication: Not if But When, Culture Beyond Oil, 2013
Cover Photo: Amy Scaife, Liberate Tate performance ‘Human Cost’

21. Tate à Tate
2012

22. Deadline Festival
2015

23. On refusing to pretend to do politics in a museum
John Jordan in Art Monthly, 2010

24. Museum of the River Thames
2001
Platform’s installation: ‘Water, Land, Fire’

25. Archive as Catalyst, 2018 - ?
Still Waters, Listening to the Fleet, 1992
2018
Museum of the River Thames, 2001

26. River Effra Watershed model

27. C Words, Arnolfini, 2009

29. www.platformlondon.org