Abstract
Engendering integration while acknowledging differences is one of the biggest challenges facing museums globally today. Institutions must reconceptualize the relationship between their collections and the engagement with (new and diverse) audiences at all levels. In response, there has been a shift in the museum model, both theoretically and on the level of institutional arrangements, from the museum as a site of authority to the post-museum as a site of mutuality.[1] The act of curating at its most basic is about connecting different concepts and cultures, and bringing their elements into proximity with each other in order to create innovative ways of seeing that counter social injustice and promote equity on all possible levels. Beyond the museum as “contact zone,”[2] and following Terry Smith, the curatorial turn is interested in exploring new contexts and relationships, and working with an artifact’s ability to reveal hidden knowledge.[3] Museums have become spaces for knowledge creation as well as agents of social regeneration and vehicles of broad social change.
Highlights
The striking concordance between these two fields speaks to the need for setting up knowledge networks that bridge different epistemologies, iconographies, and vocabularies.[5]
Like the Museum of Equality and Difference (MOED), deploy online media and critical theory in order to experiment and stimulate the radical innovation of the museum field.[7]. It is in the context of these networks that this issue of Stedelijk Studies was initiated
As Carmel Borg and Peter Mayo explain, to be “conceived of as sites of struggle, of cultural contestation and renewal.”[11]. Acknowledging that objects tell different stories to different audiences—some of which may be contradictory and in need of serious contestation—and that these differences need to be excavated through innovative curatorial and educational practices, raises important questions that must be addressed at the global level
Summary
The act of curating at its most basic is about connecting different concepts and cultures, and bringing their elements into proximity with each other in order to create innovative ways of seeing that counter social injustice and promote equity on all possible levels.
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