Community Museum Project
March 9, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Hi Again,
This Tuesday is another event in a year-long series of weekly conversations and exhibits in 2010 shedding light on examples of Plausible Artworlds.
We’ll be talking with the instigators of the Hong Kong-based Community Museum Project (CMP).
The CMP was founded in 2002 by Howard Chan (cultural programs curator), Siu King-chung (design educator), Tse Pak-chai and Phoebe Wong (cultural researchers) — basically a group of disaffected curators who believed that another museum is possible and, pointing at the streets, shops and housing of Kowloon, that it was this one. The Community Museum Project thus focuses not on establishing conventional “museum” hardware and elitist collections, but carrying out flexible exhibition and public programs, within specific community settings and driven by timely issues. Through this process the Community Museum Project aims to nurture platforms that articulate personal experiences and under-represented histories. For though Hong Kong is highly multicultural, it is not transcultural: CMP seeks to foreground overlooked forms of everyday, non-professional creativity and to reevaluate the cognitive contributions of the city’s marginalized populations, by creating platforms that can also be occasions which facilitate cross-disciplinary collaborations and neighborhood participation. To CMP, the word “Community” has three connotations: subject matter, settings and creative public interface. It is the site of their reframed museum — a plausible artworld.
CMP website:
http://hkcmp.org
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If you come to the potluck chat in person, be sure to bring a dish :)
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| Street as Museum as Method: Some Thoughts on Museum Inclusivity | 2.34 MB |
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Follow up - PDF
After last night’s superbly articulated presentation and discussion, I promised to upload and link the PDF King referred to. Here it is: http://a.aaaarg.org/text/10888/street-museum-method-some-thoughts-museum… - Thanks everyone for such an engaged chat!
scott rigby, basekamp
Is it possible to post the PDF at basekamp?
Look’s like aaaarg’s been taken down. Would it be possible to post the pdf on basekamp’s website? I am really interested in CMP.
Just attached the text here
The text is attached above now.
Here’s some bibliographic info:
Street as Museum as Method: Some Thoughts on Museum Inclusivity
King-chung Siu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, CHINA
Abstract: The paper will use the Community Museum Project (CMP, www.hkcmp.org), a Hong Kong-based curatorial collective (with which the author is affiliated), as a case study in the possible application of the museum methodology to the visual representation of community values and practices; she explores how different areas of knowledge and social resources can be “curated” to nurture synergised social relations. CMP, though operates without a permanent space, shares with institutional museums in the practice of creating representations of histories and objects, the difference being the focus on the undocumented and under-represented vernacular culture (with emphasis on public, material and visual cultures) and indigenous creativity. The city, and particularly the street, is seen as a site of interwoven knowledge and resources. They are given visual forms by means of exhibitions, tours or other public programmes.
Keywords: Community Cultural Development, Indigenous Creativity, Social Curating, Vernacular Culture, Visual Culture
scott rigby, basekamp
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