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Voices in (and around) the Museum
| Location: | United Kingdom |
| Seminar Date: | 2011-07-20 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2011-04-08 |
| Announcement ID: |
184459 |
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Voices in (and around) the Museum
A series of four discursive events co-organised by the UCL Mellon Programme and UCL Centre for Museums, Heritage and Material Culture
Studies
Wednesdays 6pm, May 4,11,18,25,2011 University College London
From being perceived as a collective resting place for mute objects and a silent, ocular-centric space to showcase them, the museum is increasingly called upon to account for the voices in its midst. Objects are now widely understood to tell stories, speaking in different ways to different
constituencies. In turn, the voices of visitors, source communities,curators, collectors and makers – whether in the form of reminiscence,testimony, storytelling, myth or song – play an increasingly prominent role in determining the museum’s approach to knowledge production and dissemination.
This series of oral interventions – by architects, artists, curators,historians, musicians, theorists, and writers – aims to understand how the voices emanating from objects and subjects in the museum impact the institution’s traditional remit of researching, collecting and displaying objects. How do these voices condition the visitor’s affective and sensory experience? How do the narratives told by the museum through objects change over time? Which voices have been suppressed, and why? What can museums do to preserve the immaterial traces of the voice? And what new technologies and outreach strategies will be required to listen to and broadcast voices both in and outside of the museum?
Speakers include:
Sarah Byrne (UCL Mellon Prgramme)
Debbie Challis (UCL Museums and Collections)
Emma Poulter (British Museum)
David Toop (London College of Communication)
Colin Fournier (UCL Bartlett School of Architecture)
Marysia Lewandowska (Konstfack, Sweden)
Sarah Lowry (Foundling Museum, London)
Steve Cross (UCL Public Engagement Unit)
Toby Butler (University of East London)
Paul Elliman (Yale School of Art)
Seph Rodney (The London Consortium)
Imogen Stidworthy (Jan van Eyck Academy, Naastricht)
Jack Maynard (Tate)
Linda Sandino (V&A and UAL)
Susan Hawkins (Kingston University London)
Hillary Young (Museum of London)
For more information
visit:http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mellon-program/events/voices
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Dr Sarah Byrne
Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow
UCL Centre for Museums, Heritage & Material Culture Studies
Institute of Archaeology
University College London
31-34 Gordon Square
London
WC1H 0PY
United Kingdom
+44 (0) 20 7679 7495
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mellon-program/
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