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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).

MUSEUM PHOTOGRAPHY: Yes But!

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Photography in museums once-was a NO NO! The rationale was mostly to do with cutting out the competition for the museum's POSTcards sales – but that was a bit of a furphy really. So too is the idea that it's designed to "protect artists' intellectual property" as one can copy an original work under copyright for the purposes of 'research' and 'critical review'. Actually, in  a 21st C context, these bureaucratically driven SAYno policies damage artists in the end because they mitigate against CITIZENinitiated critical review – and likewise citizen musing/research. In a PUBLIC MUSEUM/GALLERY most often this kind of BUREAUCRATICnonsense is a bit much.  All this beg the questions ... Why do museums exist and who for? ... click here to read more

NOTE TO THE GRAPHICS

• TOP LEFT = YES to photography BUT NO to FLASHphotography
• TOP RIGHT = YES to photography BUT with visitors required to register that they agree to being licenced under certain conditions – like undertaking to restrict their photography to research and personal review
• BOTTOM LEFT = NO to photography because the target image(s) are Restricted Images and/or restricted because the target image(s) are restricted because it is Cultural Property – and in deference to the cultural sensitivities linked to the target image
• BOTTOM RIGHT = INFORMATION available via the QRcode

Visitors to the Louvre 'snapping' the Mona Lisa

antiCONTROLfreak Glasses for Museums

The Google Glass is just one of many forthcoming wearable devices.
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Now here is a bit of news that'll frighten the pants off CONTROLfreak MUSEUMmanagers! People, heaven forbid, will be able to look at something, record an image, use it in multiple ways AND the sign at the door saying "DO NOT DO IT" will amount to 'nothing much'. However, IF they really think about it, they'll quickly work out that these 'glasses' will work for them really really well ... Not so long ago the reporter here was skiing down a slope in France, wearing a pair of ski goggles which, when he looked down and to his right, showed him his precise location, how fast he was going, where the ski run went (useful in a whiteout). It also told him if he had a phone call and, via a wrist-worn ski-glove-friendly control, allowed him to switch between answering calls or changing the music on his headphones ... The goggles, made by Recon Instruments, are popular with snowboarding professionals who want to keep tags on their day's accomplishments – one of the settings tells you how high you have just jumped. For good measure, while you are enjoying the après-ski, you can download that data to a computer ... The goggles are part of the next wave – the one that experts say will, in time, enhance and even supplant the smartphones being carried by around half of the mobile-using population in the west ... EVERYONE will be wearing them and in museums too as they'll be so good for musing! ... click here to go to source

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Off the Kerb – Transgression

Transgression at Off the Kerb, 66B Johnston Street, Collingwood, until August 2nd. Curated by Michael Carolan was the Second Collectives ‘Transgression’ at ‘Off the Kerb’ Gallery on Johnston Street. The artists involved within the show were all RMIT MFA and BFA graduates, who put together a brilliant show based around the process of transgressing from their normative practise methods and media to create a curated show that presented both cohesion and jarring. The show took over the entire gallery, including the linking corridors and staircase, and the exhibited artists were: Beka Hannah, Caitlin Telford, Jess Sutton, Jordan Hoffman, Kate Walsh, Leonie Connellan, Mary Hackett, Michael Carolan, Paul Dew and Tul Suwannakit. The front room housed the works of four artists. A faux psychic reading set up, with QRcodes linked to videos made by Cait Telford clashed aesthetically but integrated conceptually with the other works. A custom made life size jigsaw puzzle adorned one wall, and on the facing side was a constellation type drawing, applied directly to the wall .... click her to read more and see more  

Words – Sheena Colquhoun

Photos – Andy Donohoe

RUBBINGzone 08

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In art, frottage (from French frotter, "to rub") is a surrealist and "automatic" method of creative production developed by Max Ernst.

In frottage the artist takes a pencil or other drawing tool and makes a rubbing over a textured surface. The drawing can be left as is or used as the basis for further refinement. While superficially similar to brass rubbing and other forms of rubbing intended to reproduce an existing subject, and in fact sometimes being used as an alternate term for it, frottage differs in being aleatoric and random in nature.

It was developed by Ernst in 1925. Ernst was inspired by an ancient wooden floor where the grain of the planks had been accentuated by many years of scrubbing. The patterns of the graining suggested strange images to him. He captured these by laying sheets of paper on the floor and then rubbing over them with a soft pencil

Noun

frottage (usually uncountable; plural frottages)

1. (uncountable, art) A method of making an image by placing a piece of paper against an object and then rubbing over it, usually with a pencil or charcoal.
2. (countable, art) An image so made.
3. (uncountable, sexology) The practice of rubbing parts of the body against those of a consenting partner for sexual stimulation.

DAIMLERminimalism

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The first exhibition in the 'Minimalism Germany 1960 series in 2010 comprehensively showed major trends in reduced, abstract 1960s art in Germany from the Daimler Art Collection. The second part concentrates on a small number of protagonists who essentially represent a specifically German aspect of Minimalism as an international trend in the 1960s with large-scale work, serial picture objects and action-oriented work concepts. The exhibition takes the example of striking protagonists, bringing together about 40 works to reflect on trends in Conceptual Art, Minimalism and seriality, linked with the cities of Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Stuttgart and Berlin ... click here to read more

Dieter Roth @ Fruitmarket Edinburgh

Dieter Roth Diaries 2 August–14 October 2012 The Fruitmarket Gallery 45 Market Street, Edinburgh,  http://www.fruitmarket.co.uk ... http://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/exhibitions/archive/ 

The Fruitmarket Gallery is proud to present this exhibition of the work of Dieter Roth (1930–1998), one of late-twentieth-century art's major figures. Roth was an artist of astonishing breadth and diversity, producing books, graphics, drawings, paintings, sculptures, assemblages, and installation works involving video, sounds, and recordings. He was also a composer, musician, poet, and writer ... Art and life for Roth flowed readily into each other, and much of the material for his artistic output came from his everyday life. This exhibition is the first to focus on the theme of the diary in Roth's work. Roth kept a diary throughout his life, and saw all art-making as a form of diary keeping. His diaries were a space to record appointments, addresses, lists, and deadlines but also ideas, drawings, photographs, and poems. They teem with graphic exuberance, and proved a rich source for his work. The Fruitmarket Gallery is fortunate in being able to show Roth's diaries to the public for the first time, as well as the hand-produced, photocopied 'copybooks' he made from them to sell to favoured collectors and friends, and two major installation works. Many of Roth's major works can be understood as kinds of diaries.

Poetry & Pottery

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FOUNDplace for the poetry is at the 

Château d'Angers [click here], Loire Valley, France.

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FOUNDplace for the pottery [Pole of Porcelain]   is 

a few ks upstream at the village of Mehun-sur-Yèvre

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FINDER: Tim Thorne 2012

OLYMPICS X 2012

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"Two thousand and twelve words, six thousand and thirty six syllables, sixteen thousand and ninety six letters"

art and resistance

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Disobedience Archive is an ongoing, itinerant atlas of the various contemporary resistance tactics: from direct action to counter-information, through constituent practices and forms of bio-disobedience. It accommodates a variety of film material by artists, activists, filmmakers, philosophers and political groups ... The selection of films is organised in eight chapters: the first is about the 1977 demonstrations and riots in Italy, followed by sections on social changes around the Berlin Wall, the social upheavals in Argentina in 2001, the anti-globalization movement’ developments from 1994 onwards, experimental forms of education, community and urbanism, the Israel-Palestinian conflict, political and activist work in the former Eastern Bloc, the effects of 09/11 and a new section dealing with events surrounding what has come to be called the Arab spring.

SWISS INSTITUTE IN NEW YORK

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For her exhibition, Weinberger has composed a series of electronic loops mixed in a constant cadence that recalls the rhythmic pulse of a beating heart (80-140 beats per minute). While minimal, the various tracks resound in a warm, constant and reassuring tempo that is soft, drawn out, and ambient. The loops are installed via a series of multi-directional speakers, each emitting sound. Long white curtains adorn the walls ... click here to read more

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QVMAG …come to life…

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A collaborative exhibition generated by CAST & QVMAG in Launceston

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The Examiner: Disturbing images give life to new exhibition ... click here

King of Twee and Painter of Light

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Thomas Kinkade (January 19, 1958 – April 6, 2012) was an American painter of popular realistic, bucolic, and idyllic subjects. He is notable for the mass marketing of his work as printed reproductions and other licensed products via The Thomas Kinkade Company. He characterized himself as "Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light," a phrase he protected through trademark but one originally attributed to the English master J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851). He was claimed to be "America's most-collected living artist" before his death with an estimated 1 in every 20 American homes owning a copy of one of his paintings. The world has lost a phenomena – or at least the USA has.

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Beijing Commune

Cigarettes and Ashtray
installation
13 x 13 cm
2006

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New Global QR Paradigm For Museums & Art

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The world is changing and the ground is shifting – and constantly. What's true of the world is just as true in musing places (museums!) an QR CODES are appearing all over, even in museums. In musing paradigms QR CODES  offer new opportunities for curator to engage with musers both inside the museum and outside it. Recalcitrant curators will want to maintain the status quo but it is too late by far and QRart is upon us and as likely as not facilitating multifarious understandings of 'things'.   

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Negative Space

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Rachel Whiteread‘s sculptures draw our attention to the concept of space, something that rarely think about even though we spend our lives navigating 'space'. Mostly we are blissfully unaware of the space/spaces we occupy. Working to take negative space and make it a tangible reality, Whiteread uses her sculptures in order to physically define what surrounds, and indeed defines, objects. 

Using casting materials such asresin, plaster and rubber, she casts the negative space surrounding domestic and household objects. Through her sculptures, Whiteread explores ideas of absence, memory, and architecture, revealing the space we cannot define and rarely pay attention to ... click here to read more about Whitehead.

Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Hangzhou

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Established in 1929, Zhejiang Provincial Museum (formerly known as the West Lake Museum of Zhejiang Province) is a comprehensive museum devoted to humanity studies integrating collection, exhibition and research with its over 100,000 collected cultural relics.

Among them, there are many world-famous exemplars, including pottery wares, lacquer wares, wooden pieces, bone tools and ivory objects of pre-historic Hemudu Culture, jade and silk fabrics of pre-historic Liangzhu Culture, bronze wares of the ancient Yue State, celadon wares of the Yue Kiln, Longquan Kiln and the Southern Song Imperial Kiln, copper mirrors of ancient Guiji and Huzhou, works of calligraphers and painters of Zhejiang Province in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

 At present, the Museum features some principal exhibitions, e.g. “Seven Thousand Years of Zhejiang  – Exhibition on Zhejiang’s Historic and Cultural Relics”, “The Best of Celadon” and “Exhibition on Folk Customs of Ancient Yue Families”. With rich and colorful cultural relics throughout history and unique display methods, these exhibitions reflect the long and enduring history of Zhejiang Province in various layers and from diversified angles. 

The Zhejiang Provincial Museum irregularly holds about 40 exhibitions from home and abroad every year.

Within the museum there is the Hangzhou Cultural Relics Protection & Scientific Research Base. The Base is financed by the People’s Government of Zhejiang Province, completed in May 2004 and is now a cultural relics protection & scientific research base in the service of the whole cultural and museum system of Zhejiang Province. The Base aims at providing solutions to the existing problems in the cultural relics protection and research in the museums of Zhejiang Province, spreading basic cultural relics protection techniques to the Province and key technical services to the whole country, with the support from Zhejiang Provincial Museum.