FWD: MUSEUMS: “Home” (2020), Edited by Therese Quinn & Quinton Sledge

Museology / Museum Studies
Written By Michael Workman

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How do museums respond to the urgency of the moment?

In what ways can they be transformed to foster justice work? Fwd: Museums Journal, an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed publication, shares critical analysis, interventions, and dialogs focused on museums and other sites of cultural work. Our contributors reexamine, critique and challenge museums as socially responsive spaces.

In our fifth issue, themed “Home,” you will find visual art, essays, poetry, research, reviews and other creative forms addressing:

  • The interrelatedness of baskets, weaving, and home

  • Decolonizing parklands and conservation

  • Ancestors who are howling, yet can teach us to survive every day

  • Sankofa journeys centering African American homes and history

  • University library exhibitions as feminist pedagogy

  • Transforming the white cube

Now it’s your turn.

Michael Workman

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing.

https://michaelworkmanstudio.com
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