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These are just a few observations i have from the museum visit this week: The Museum; Foxes in the gallery, Transient, Mutiny or independence, Modernist, built out of the ashes of the past, Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein, nationalism, pride in the city, kitsch, social history, working history, history from below, collections or archives? passion for learning? statistics, for the white middle [...]
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The museum is a prison playing football down a tunnel
Posted: November 24, 2011 by alternativeartcollege in The Museum, Uncategorized1
Reflecting on our latest visit to the Museum of London
Posted: November 23, 2011 by ayat in The MuseumI felt more encouraged about the Museum’s project after our visit yesterday. Somehow- if I am not wrong- I could see a tiny green light of freedom to what we could end up displaying on representing the Olympics, and I am quite optimist about it- though can’t be sure yet The lady who gave us the main [...]
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/politicspast/page/0,9067,892902,00.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/demonstrations-to-be-banned-during-olympics-6265121.html ”It ( protest) is not just embarrassing, it can be a threat to security.” Doesn’t this attitude pretty much summarise preseicly why the occupy london is taking place? and how this notion of embarrassment is the driving force for the process of sanitation of public that we discussed. and that Olympics is a part [...]
Museum = Prison by Monty Catsin
Posted: November 12, 2011 by jamesrrellison in The Museum, The Political, The PrisonThere will be a conference tomorrow at Goldsmiths New Academic Building. One of the sessions, it says, will attempt to connect an understanding of the war-torn urban landscape with the subsequent patterns of city change and urban regeneration that will culminate in the 2012 Olympics. Free, but booking required. http://www.shockandawe.org.uk/ ————————————————————————————— Saturday 12 November, 10am-4pm New Academic [...]
At first, when I saw these posters they reminded me some famous works of last decades painting history-such as post-painterly abstract works-then, I realized that they will be displayed in 2012 as a part of the Government Art Collection. I think we can find more from the past in this collection, and connect it to ‘here [...]
David’s talk about his journey through the Olympic Games area (Hackney?) and the evident gentrification that they’re provoking in the area reminded me of what happened in Barcelona in the 1992 Olympics and, more recently, in the 2004 Forum of Cultures. I remember that one of the main reasons for controversy concerning the Forum was [...]
Sorry i could not be with you today, i got ill.. Was thinking of the relations between sport and military and war and the language the mainstream media uses for both and that is very often inter-changeable especially when it comes to football. The game is another arena of the violent macho culture. All of [...]
ONE DAY – FOUR PLACES – and some indian food in between
Posted: October 26, 2011 by lineeeeeeee in The Museum, The Prison, The Stadium, The TunnelWhat’s left behind? A lot of excited feelings about the development of the project and some questions_ PRISON_ * What comes out of boredom? * Does art make prisoners more socially acceptable? * What kind of artworks do WE have to serve the prisoners? MUSEUM_ * How can you transform this place? * Can you [...]
