a full day on Saturday at The Think Tank in Ipswich at Pacitti
Company HQ to spend time thinking and talking about working with and within collections
– my notes... engaging with collections - meaningful - voices - creating new ways of
seeing - visions - creating a vision - prisms to create contemporary
thoughts - is a prism a fracturing experience - truth / truths - openings
and roots (routes) - the web as a methodology - celebrating process - possibility as a starting
point - rethinking / re imagining a particular document - activist purposes - activists -
for what? - radical re imagining - whose story? - accessing collections
- Performing collections - rolling research - past - future – unlocked
- digital principles - what are they? - objects providing entry points - how museums speak to
audiences - how communities talk back - a parliament of things -
politics - complex layers of stuff - the objects meaning changes with
each viewing - the issue
might be about - giving voice as much as talking for... - the burden of history -
possible starting points?..... unlocked unlocking - the politics of the
word - practicalities of the objects - inaccessible - temporary coalition as a
way forward - an expert in your own experience - where does the swallow
belong? - reading the politics of now through the landscape of time – what
is the difference between the object and the thing? - does a thing have
a story? - are things connected? - things as objects - objects as
things - potentiality of objects - categorisation as a closing
down mechanism - object - (latin) something that is thrown in the way -
an object as an obstruction - thing - (norse) a place for discussion
(thing-stead) gathering – thring - the
move from a consumer of an object to that of a witness to/in a gathering - digital - as a way forward
- iterations of stories - of visions - the wiki could be the way to tell many
stories - MY story.... Rather than printing which is limited to the number with
access to the physical - control - culturally unlocking - the knowledge within
me - awe and wonder - emotional response - education as key - power unlocked - adult children of
hoarders.. - filtering as a way of moving forward - criteria? - fragmentation
as an opportunity - the current atomisation of society could enable us to
reconfigure and rebuild - managing democracy - shining light on things -
burial practices - repeated exhumed - bones intermingled....spread around - a
logic of construction - bringing together - mixing up - just a bunch of
stuff... without stories.... - facebook as a navigating tool - as a
mirror - thinking about forms and
meanings of words......- navigating within a communal way - look at the
word and the meaning of navigation - cartographic (imperialism) (mapping and
inclusion) - way-finding (local purpose - perceptual range) - letting things
die and moving on....its ok for things to be lost? - responsibility - to
bring things out - to continue to tell stories - object and things - simplicity
and complexity - abundance and absence - stamped across
narratives of mobility - are we asking the right questions? - we
haven't had to ask questions about politics - authorised heritage
discourse - fetishisation of archaeology - museology - mediated and
medicated.....context is all - what doesn't come up through discussion -
revelation - as a vehicle - responsibility
and privilege - respect - knowing about heritage - mono narratives - rhythm
of time forgot - implication by words - maybe museums just have to
be let go - its okay for things to be lost.... - shadow by implication
relates to a darkness or dark-side or positively it could concern itself with
shedding light on a thing/object - a broken typewriter exposes the process of
narrative making - analogue and unique - authorised museum objects that
had gone through the accession process – canonised – a simplification of
culture - migration - how does it feel to know nothing? - archaeology
as a tool to explore ....... something of the now - specialists - by definition
are 'other'. - identity - through objects - what objects do you
take/bring with you - the idea of home -
migration is the human story - investment of engagement - the
trajectories of things - artefacts in collections
- close the trajectory - can new technologies offer new life to a thing....
- objects in collections can be treated as material - returning it to rawness
- the possibility of being transformed as all material can - sensory fashion - times,
space – scales - technology as raw materials - a sensorium - a place of
sensations - responses....a
purpose - curiosity - creating occasions for discussion - juxtapositions
between things - exploring relationships- the
journey from public to private to public etc etc.... - connection to the
collection....roads less well explored...- the idea of the durational
residency or Research process - what is under test in the test
department? - testing - nobody can test anything without somebody on the
team already being part of the testing... Is this true? - liminal state
- not black boxed - iconoclast becoming the icon - a work that
shows the carving away .... The editing process as a large part of the final
piece - un-inventing - rather than
unlocking - level of trust...is important to us all..... http://www.pacitticompany.com/ looking
forward to their next session - sound lounge on Friday 21 march 7 – 11 http://www.pacitticompany.com/event/sound-lounge/
Meanwhile there have
been a lot of films but recommendations only include the Dallas Buyers Club –
how did Matthew McConaughey do that? An extraordinary performance... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790636/?ref_=nv_sr_1
and Philomena – a moving and beautifully constructed film – weaving the past
and present, imagination and truth with one slowly revealed to become the other
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2431286/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 and the extension has disappeared under a shroud of scaffold.
