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MUSEUM MUSINGS: Marketing, Mobiles & Deaccession

This site, bickersteth.blogspot.com.au, offers all kinds of insights into the MUSEUMworld. The entries on Mobiles and museums - the next stage and The real via the virtual – Google Art expands are especially insightful. The site is not VISUALLYrich but museum administrators, it would seem, would be well served by following this BLOG.

The Musing Museums BLOG does not shrink from the contentious deaccessioning issue with four entries on the topic. Its an issue that in our current difficult economic times that is likely to arise to 'balance the books' in the short term. Mostly deaccessioning shouldn't happen – and certainly not for short term pragmatic reasons in public galleries and museums.

There is always the risk of corruption when deaccession is on the agenda– and there are many examples to be found if one goes turning over catalogues in the backrooms of far too many museums and art galleries.

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Bob McMahon: My Tasmania

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Bob McMahon is Tasmania's OTHERbob with an interest in things 'wilderness' and curiously both take photographs – and both were at the Gordon below Franklan protests. McMahon is a writer and photographer besides being a climber, adventurer and activist – and more recently, a BLOGGER.  Bob is about to launch into an interrogation of the WILDERNESSidea an idea that has a particular resonance in 'his Tasmania'. That'll be something to watch out for!

GOOGLEbook Musing

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PLACEmusing

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New Marker Stone installed beside Loch Ness, July 2012 While it is up for debate whether iconic Loch Ness needs a marker stone, it seems that some benefits could be gained by installing one here in Launceston. Not everyone (especially those beneath the fog line) recognises Loch Launceston on days when it appears ... Muse freely

DARK TOURISM: A matter of conscience & consciousness

There's a side of international tourism that's a bit controversial and booming. Within the industry it's called 'dark' or thanatourism. John Lennon (Glasgow Caledonian University)says It's the recognition that there is a human interest, human motivation to explore the dark side of our past, as well as the positive side ... In mainstream culture, we witness this, with the interest in war, horror, detective, murder. In tourism we see that in visitation of those sites, associated with the worst elements of our human nature. So it's visitation of sites of death whether real or imagined. So it could include assassination sites, such as the Kennedy assassination point or indeed my namesake, John Lennon at the Dakota building in New York. It could be sites of mass killing and extermination like concentration camps or incarceration. Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge killing field sites and also incarceration sites. It could also be battlefield tourism, which is very significant in places like the U.S. but also in the U.K. where people will visit heritage sites associated with battles and many of these sites almost since the battles took place, have been places of veneration and visitation ... In Tasmania there is Port Arthur with layer upon layer of bleakness and there are Aboriginal massacre sites replete with dark stories, cultural memories and denials and there is the Black Line and more still ... click here to read and here more on ABC Radio 

JOBS WANTED

SAMPLE ONLY Exhibitions and Displays  Curator WHERE?  Somewhere quite important even if a bit out of the way

Increase awareness, understanding, and enjoyment of current cultural production. This is a superb opportunity to use your curatorial flair and passion for modern and current cultural production to devise and deliver exciting exhibitions and displays for an iconic place in the imagination of cultural thinkers. Working within the Program Team, you'll be involved in everything from developing new concepts, selecting artists, and researching provenance to co-ordinating installation and managing related publications. We'll also look to you to engage in scholarly debate, contribute to our overall research programme and give lectures, gallery talks, and briefings. Building strong partnerships in the region and maintaining a relevant international network will be a vital part of your remit. The role calls for a successful track record of devising and delivering distinctive exhibitions and a comprehensive knowledge of the processes involved. This will be supported by an appropriate degree or equivalent and an in-depth knowledge of national and international current cultural production. A highly effective organiser, planner, and negotiator, your superb communication skills will be matched by your ability to manage budgets and people. With four major sites, the institution holds key works in the national collection  as well as modern and contemporary art. This is an exciting time to join us as we are embarking on the next stage of our development which will see the delivery of expanded gallery and learning facilities, the completion of our premier exhibition space and the further development of the visitor facilities and gallery spaces elsewhere. With all these developments, we aim to increase public awareness, understanding, and appreciation of current cultural production. Join our committed team, and help take our collections to the widest audience possible. Our opportunities are open for you to apply online. Please visit our website to create an account by registering your details or if you are an existing user, log into your account. For all opportunities, we ask candidates to complete an online application form for the vacancy they are interested in.  If you need an application form in an alternative format, please call us. Once you have submitted your application, you can keep track of its progress by logging in to your account. Our jobs are like our galleries, open to all.

dOCUMENTA (13)

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Geoffrey Farmer’s Leaves of Grass at Documenta 13. Photograph: Ralph Orlowski/Reuters

dOCUMENTA (13) YOUtube 5:34 mins ... click here

dOCUMENTA (13) GUARDIANreview  ... click here

Pictures in a Gallery

Credit: C Deeprose

Thanks to this contributor who with this image makes the point so clearly is that what she was looking for was to 'steal' – capture or record – a memory and nothing more. But it was taken not stolen as it may have been elsewhere or in another time. 

Other contributions welcome!

ART? CULTURAL PRODUCTION?

A new trend has EXPLODED in China’s upper class where people are transforming their pets into miniature versions of animals or just dyeing them crazy colors. Pandas seem to be a big hit and obviously are the favorites. Apparently it’s become a huge industry and people are spending THOUSANDS on professional hair dyes, salon cuts, accessories, you name it! Panda Puppies! Perhaps all this is an exemplar of how culture manifests itself when it is unconstrained by cultural institutions defining and determining what is 'proper', what is 'legitimate', what is 'acceptable'.  Let's face it, the animal owners here do not depend upon, or have rejected' the 'proper way'.

TATE TANKS 2012

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The Tanks: Fifteen Weeks of Art in Action 18 July–28 October 2012 

Tate Modern Bankside London SE1 9TG United Kingdom www.tate.org.uk 

Converted from the former oil tanks of Bankside Power Station, the Tanks at Tate Modern have been specially designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron to showcase live art, installation, and the moving image. Over a period of fifteen weeks this UK summer, these stunning, raw industrial spaces are launched with a new commission by Korean artist Sung Hwan Kim, a pair of collection displays featuring two new acquisitions – Suzanne Lacy's The Crystal Quilt (1985–87) and Lis Rhodes' Light Music (1975) – and Art in Action, a rolling festival of performance and film projects by over 40 established and emerging artists from around the world. Artists include Ei Arakawa (Japan), Jelili Atiku (Nigeria), Nina Beier (Denmark), Tania Bruguera (Cuba), Boris Charmatz (France), Keren Cytter (Israel), Juan Downey (Chile), Gill Eatherley (UK), Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (Belgium), Liu Ding (China), Jeff Keen (UK), Anthea Hamilton (UK), Malcolm Le Grice (UK), Tina Keane (UK), Joachim Koester (Denmark), Anthony McCall (UK), Rabih Mroué (Lebanon), Annabel Nicholson (UK), Eddie Peake (UK), William Raban (UK), Yvonne Rainer (US), Aura Satz (UK), Patrick Staff (UK), Aldo Tambellini (US), Kerry Tribe (US), and Haegue Yang (Korea).