Reflection
Interests
- Existence and presentation of artifacts in the museum
- Incomplete knowledge of the Museum
- vague and questionable descriptions
- alienating context
- withheld information
- Incomplete/defective history
- The objects life is uncertain
- Curators apply their lense when defining objects
- Conservators remove history
- the authority that the museum applies by giving definitions to objects
–>The effect on the viewer
1. Ceremonial Reconstruction
- magic object
- vague description
- no context given
- what was it used for? what kind of ritual?
What story does an artefact with no clear description have?
2. Exploring unknown lives
- process of replication (making)
- as a form of understanding use
- challenging given definition
How is the function of an object defined?
3. Extraction
- forensic analysis
- the act of violent taking
- reconstructing original setting
- removal of cultural layer
Core Group Aim (CGA)
Speculating on
- Explore alternative lives uncertain objects might have lived
- How were they made, used, or removed?
- Create a methodology than can be applied at different points in time
- To explore the lives objects of a past might have had
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