'Taking to the Streets'
A Rather Personal Review
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1321816600006279Keywords:
'Taking to the Streets' exhibition, media, public protest, activism, personal reflectionAbstract
Taking to the Streets engages you immediately as cries of protest marchers slam you in through the exhibition entrance. A large video screen looms with confrontations on the ramparts. Recognitions of faces, places and events spin in the mind.
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As opposed to the frequently trotted out claim that ‘Brisbane was put on the map by Expo ‘88’.
Personal communication.
Personal communication.
Acknowledgments to my archivist mentor, Verne Harris, for his incisive phrase here. Referring to archives, he writes: ‘The record provides just a sliver of a window into the event … [Through destruction of records deliberate and inadvertent we are left with] a sliver of a sliver from which archivists select what they will preserve.’ From ‘Claiming Less, Delivering More: A Critique of Positivist Formulations on Archives in South Africa’, in Archivaria, 44 (1997): 132–41.
Postman, Neil in ‘Museum as Dialogue’, Museum News, September/October (1990): 55–58.
This article, which was photocopied many times and circulated in women's collectives, was by Jo Kerr. It was covered in various magazines and journals in the 1970s. Its first official publication was in The Second Wave 2(1) (1972).
Quoted from the text panel near the entrance to the exhibition.
See, for example, Katherine Kuh's article ‘Explaining Art Visually’ in Museum International 53(4) (2001) in which she discusses her ways of engaging visitors to interrogate the exhibitions, while curator of the Gallery of Art Interpretation and associate curator of painting and sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago.
See, amongst others, Stephen Weil in ‘The Proper Business of the Museum: Ideas or Things?’ Muse, 7(1) (1989): 28–32.
Personal communication with the curators.
Louise Denoon quoted in an article on the 4ZZZ website, www.4zzzfm.org.au/events.
See Linda Young's article ‘Significance, Connoisseurship, and Facilitation’ in Museum Management and Curatorship, 13 (1994): 191–99, and her acknowledgment of Chris Johnston's work on facilitated community-focused significance assessment.
Personal communication with the curators.
O'Neill, M., (unpublished,1994), cited in Kavanagh, G., Dream Spaces: Memory and the Museum (London: Leicester University Press, 2000), 2.
See, for example, my article ‘Past in the Present: Commemoration and Healing at the Women's Jail in Johannesburg’ in Museums Australia November (2006): 12–13.
Postman, Neil ‘Museum as Dialogue’, Museum News, September/October (1990): 55–58.
