Museums and related stuff

 

 

 

 

Discussion questions about Museums and related stuff:(so please be careful all the information and definition is suppose to be connected to Anthropology & Museums)

1)How has the history of ethnographic museums influenced our current ideas of exhibition and display?

2) How has collecting methods changed since earliest collecting to the present? How have they stayed the same?

3) After watching the video of Winona LaDuke and Naomi Klein, what was one takeaway you had of Winona’s discussion points?

4) Can objects or monuments “speak” for themselves? Why or why not?

5) Does anthropology need museums? Or do museums need anthropology? How do they shape one another?

6) Focusing on two case studies: Sara Baartman and Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Pena’s piece on Amerindians, let’s unpack the “us versus them” dichotomy and the implications with it. Watch clip from 1992 performance artists Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Pena in Madrid, Spain where they presented themselves as Amerindians who escaped Columbus and use readings on this performance to compare to article and images on web of Sara Baartman and discuss the commodification of humans-imperialisms effects on collecting and display and the present connection to body image, agency and authenticity.

7) How does an object play in the role of the celebratory in the ritual of citizenship?

8) How do you present various perspectives in one exhibit-past or original viewpoint, current viewpoints, etc.

9) What is the role of the museum?

10) What does it mean to be a witness? How can museums/monuments/memorials provide space to witness violence pasts and provide a space to teach tolerance and understanding?

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I added the class notes for question 3
Discussion questions:

1)How has the history of ethnographic museums influenced our current ideas of exhibition and display?

2) How has collecting methods changed since earliest collecting to the present? How have they stayed the same?

3) After watching the video of Winona LaDuke and Naomi Klein, what was one takeaway you had of Winona’s discussion points? https://youtu.be/MDo-KtOKYZE

4) Can objects or monuments “speak” for themselves? Why or why not?

5) Does anthropology need museums? Or do museums need anthropology? How do they shape one another?
6) Focusing on two case studies: Sara Baartman and Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Pena’s piece on Amerindians, let’s unpack the “us versus them” dichotomy and the implications with it. Watch clip from 1992 performance artists Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Pena in Madrid, Spain where they presented themselves as Amerindians who escaped Columbus and use readings on this performance to compare to article and images on web of Sara Baartman and discuss the commodification of humans-imperialisms effects on collecting and display and the present connection to body image, agency and authenticity.
( https://www.artandeducation.net/classroom/video/244623/coco-fusco-and-guillermo-gmez-pea-the-couple-in-the-cage-two-undiscovered-amerindians-visit-the-west )

-Define one of the following based on readings/video:
* What is the Exhibitonary Complex?
* What is heritage?
* What is history?
* (https://vimeo.com/439042290)
7) How does an object play in the role of the celebratory in the ritual of citizenship?
(Duncan, Carol. 1991. “Art Museums and the Ritual of Citizenship.” In Exhibiting Cultures, edited by Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine, 88-103. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.)

8) How do you present various perspectives in one exhibit-past or original viewpoint, current viewpoints, etc.

9) What is the role of the museum?
(Vartanian, Hrag. April 12, 2018. “Growing
Coalition Calls Brooklyn Museum ‘Out of Touch’ and Demands a Decolonization Commission”. In Hyperallergic. Accessed August 25, 2018.)

10) What does it mean to be a witness? How can museums/monuments/memorials provide space to witness violence pasts and provide a space to teach tolerance and understanding?
(Lehrer, Erica and Cynthia E. Milton. 2012. “Witnesses to Witnessing” in Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places, editors Erica Lehrer and Monica Patterson. Palgrave, London, pp. 1-22)

 

 

 

 

 

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