EXPANDED RESOURCES BY WEEK
week: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
Week One (Oct 3): Introduction
Meet in MCC133
- Course overview
- Research and Exhibtion Development Project
Week Two
(Oct 10, in MCC 133): Witnessing Violence and Remembrance
Expanded Reading:
- Tony Bennet, "Speaking to the Eyes," Ch 2 in The Politics of Display, ed, Sharon MacDonald (e-reserve under MacDonald)
- Bonnell J. and Simon, R. L. (2007 July). “Difficult” Exhibitions and Intimate Encounters. Museum and Society, 5(2): 65-85.
- Gretchen Jennings and Maureen McConnell, "The Unexhibitable: A Conversation" (PDF)
- Matti Bunzl, "But Is It Art?: Not Really," in Curatorial Dreams, eds, Butler and Lehre
- Chandra Bhimull, "The Alchemy of Flight: Race, Mobility, Humanity," in Curatorial Dreams, eds, Butler and Lehrer
- Roger Simon, "The Terrible Gift: Difficult Memories for the Twenty First Century," in Curatorial Dreams, eds, Butler and Lehrer
- Roger Simon, "The Touch of the Past: The Pedagogical Significance of a Transactional Sphere of Public Memory," Trifona (ed), Revolutionary Pedagogies: cultural politics, instituting education, and the discourse of theory (2000)
- David L. Eng and David Kazanjian, eds, Loss The Politics of Mourning
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Week Three (Oct 17): Display and Struggles Over Space, and for Community
Expanded Reading:
- Joshua Decter, "Art and the Cultural Contradictions of Urban Regeneration, Social Justice and Sustainability: Transforma Projects and Prospect.l in Post-Katrina New Orleans" (Triton Ed)
- Elizabeth S. Hawley, "Art, Activism, and Democracy: Wochenklausur’s Social Interventions" (Triton Ed)
- Bella Dicks, Culture on Display, "Ch 1: A Culture of Display," p16-40 (Digital copy linked to library catalog--not e-reserves)
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Week Four (Oct 24): Collective Memory, Forgetting, Counter-Memory: Toward a Pedagogy of Remembering Otherwise
Expanded Reading:
- Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, "Exhibitions and Interpretation: Museum Pedagogy and Cultural Change"
- Walter Benjamin, "Theses on the Philosophy of History," Illuminations
- James Fentress, Chris Wickham, Social Memory (1992)
- Siobhan Kattago "Written in Stone: Monuments and Representation," The Ashgate Research Companion to Memory Studies Edited by SobhAn Kattago (2015)
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Di Paolantionio, M. (2010.) A site of struggle, a site of conflicting pedagogical proposal: the debates over suitable commemorative form and content for ESMA. Journal of Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 6, 8, 25-42.
- Claire Bishop, "Pedegogic Projects," Artificial Hells:: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship(2012)
Expanded Viewing:
- Empathy Museum:
- Ken Gonzalez Day
- Without Sanctuary Exhibition: http://withoutsanctuary.org/
- Andy Rice "About Face"
- Bill T Jones "A Good Man" on streaming reserves.
Week Five (Oct 31): Difference and Controversy in Scientific and Religious Display
Expanded Reading:
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Katherine Seally, "Self-Censorship in Museums: The case of Sex: A Tell-all Exhibition"
Lynn Mulkey & William Dougan, "The Smithsonian Institution Exhibition of Science in American Life"
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Week Six (Nov 7) Curatorial Impulses and Collecting as Representational Practice
Expanded Reading:
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Angella Failler & Roger Simon R., "Curatorial Practice and learning from difficult knowledge" in The Idea of a Human Rights Museum edited by Busby, Muller, and Woolford, p 165-180
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A. Grzyb, "Curating Action: Comparative genocide exhibits and the call to action at Kigali Memorial Centre, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Museo y Tolerancia," in The Idea of a Human Rights Museum edited by Busby, Muller, and Woolford, p 262- 280
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Terence Duff "Museums of 'Human Suffering' and the Struggle for Human Rights" (MS 117-122)
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Leslie Witz, "Transforming Museums on Postapartheid Tourist Routes" (MF 107-134)
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Week Seven (Nov 14) Display in Public Spaces and Everyday Contexts
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Week Eight (Nov 21): Exhibition Installation
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Week Nine (Nov 28): Public-Private: Visual Interventions in Institutional Space
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Ten (Dec 5): Globalization, Collections, and Museums
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Feild Trip and Projects Info
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
John H. Falk, Lynn D. Dierking- (2000). Learning from Museums: Visitor Experiences and the Making of Meaning. AltaMira Press
Ian Jared Miller & Harriet Ritvo (2013). The Nature of The Beasts: Empire and Exhibition At The Tokyo Imperial Zoo. University of California Press
Sharon Macdonald (2006). A Companion to Museum Studies. Wiley-Blackwell
Sharon Macdonald (1998). The Politics of Display:Museums, Science, Culture. Routledge
Sharon Macdonald (2002). Behind the Scenes at the Science Museum. Berg Publishers
Balzer, David (2014). Curationism: how curating took over the art world and everything else. Coach House Books
Richard Sandell (2002) Museums, Society, Inequality. Routledge
Suzanne Macleod, Laura Hourston Hanks, Jonathan Hale (2012). Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions. Routledge
Erica Lehrer, Cynthia E. Milton, Monica Eileen Patterson, eds (2011). Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places. Palgrave Macmillan UK
Douglas Crimp, (1994). On the Museum's Ruins,