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  • Meeting Point: 

    Morning and Afternoon sessions: Music Gallery Performance Space (a room inside the Music Gallery, on the lower level) of the Horniman Museum in Forest Hill, South London. To get to Forest Hill from QM, take the District Line to Whitechapel, then take the Overground southbound from Whitechapel to Forest Hill. Make sure to get on an Overground train that goes via Forest Hill, as not all of them do! (Please note that I was wrong yesterday—when you get off the Overground at Forest Hill, if you are coming from QM, you DO need to cross over via the bridge and exit via the opposite northbound side.) The museum is a 10 minute walk from the station. Be sure to check Google Maps or the Citymapper app for train times and walking directions before you leave. 

    • Essential Reading (ALL ATTACHED BELOW): 

      1. Timothy Mitchell, ‘Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order’, in The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology, ed. Donald Preziosi (2009), pp. 455-472.
        • LOOK  UP AND DEFINE: "Orientalism"
        • QUESTION: According to Mitchell, in what ways did European viewers see the world as an exhibition (and also see exhibitions as representative of the world)?
      2. Annie E. Coombes, ‘Museums and the Formation of National and Cultural Identities’, Oxford Art Journal 11, No. 2 (1988), pp. 57-68. 
        • LOOK UP AND DEFINE: "Ethnography"
      3. Tom Seymour, ‘“A model for how a traditional museum can become relevant”: Horniman Museum in London wins Art Fund’s Museum of the Year Award’, The Art Newspaper, 14 July 2022, https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/07/14/a-model-for-how-a-traditional-museum-can-stay-relevant-horniman-museum-in-london-wins-art-funds-museum-of-the-year-award.

       

      Further Reading: 

      • Michael Ames, Cannibal tours and glass boxes: the anthropology of museums (Vancouver: University of British Colombia Press, 1992).
      • Yve-Alain Bois, ‘La Pensée Sauvage’, Art in America, April 1985, pp. 178-189.

      • Christa Clarke, ‘From theory to practice: exhibiting African art in the twenty-first century’ in Andrew McClellan (ed.), Art and Its Publics: Museum Studies at the Millennium (Oxford/Malden MA: Blackwell, 2003), 164-181.
      • James Clifford, ‘Quai Branly in Process’ October, no. 120 (Spring 2007): 3-23.

      • James Clifford, The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988).

      • Hal Foster, ‘The “Primitive” Unconscious of Modern Art’, October, no.34 (Fall 1985), 45-70. 
      • Ivan Karp, Christine Mullen Kreamer and Steven D Lavine (eds.), Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture (Washington DC/London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992).
      • Edward Said, Orientalism (London: Routledge, 1978). 
      • Kirk Varnedoe, ‘On the Claims and Critics of the “Primitivism” Show’, Art in America (May 1985): 11-21. 

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