FWD: MUSEUMS: “Small” (2017), Edited by Therese Quinn & Sarita Hernández

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 critically transformed to foster social justice work? Fwd: Museums, an inclusive, cross-disciplinary journal, shares interventions, experiments, and community dialogues within and outside of museums. Our contributors reexamine, critique, and challenge museums as socially responsive spaces. In our second issue, themed “small,” you will find artwork, essays, poetry, and other creative forms that explore topics such as: Small alternative exhibition spaces; Marginalized identities challenging dominant structures; Impacts of small objects in and outside of museums; Unique possibilities, challenges, and contexts offered by small museums and exhibitions; Perspectives of museum workers in “small” positions; Smallness and consumability. Now it’s your turn. We’re looking Fwd to continuing the conversation.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. Table of Contents

  2. Acknowledgements  & Publication Team

  3. Language Matters by Javairia Shahid

  4. Welcome by The Floating Museum

  5. Introduction by Sarita Hernández

  6. Value of Small Things

  7. The Society of Smallness; A Brief History by Georgina Valverde

  8. Life in Miniature: An Ode to the Thorne Rooms by Elizabeth Lalley

  9. Fresh Theft: Consuming Art by Yasmin Zacaria Mitchel

  10. Small Things with Great Love: An Art Department – Library Exhibition Initiative by Jane Darcovich

  11. A Conversation By The Loo on Artist Run Spaces by Noora Al Balushi

  12. Engagement 

  13. Lift to release (white cube) by Juan Camilo Guzmán

  14. Expanding Care: Curation in the Age of Engagement by Aletheia Wittman

  15. Size Misprint: Architecture of Power by Silvia Gonzalez

  16. Small objects, big impact by Laura Phillips

  17. Marginalization  

  18. The Art Museum Chasm by Marjorie Schwarzer

  19. Critical Narratives of the Marginalized by Karen Vidángos

  20. La Madre Chiquita by William Camargo

  21. The World in a Box by Tim Gorichanaz

  22. Location  

  23. Compressed, Compact, Concise, and Refined: A Museum in Switzerland by Deniz Balık

  24. Air, Water, and Earth: Lessons on communication from a museum in the mountains by Michelle Dezember

  25. Open Table by Roni Packer

  26. Hong Kong Identity: Utilizing the Small to Challenge the Big by Benjamin J. Hruska

  27. The Fine Art of Reduction: Diminishment, Distance and Taylor’s Panorama of Sydney by Meighen S. Katz

  28. Disturbing Histories

  29. Book Review–Museums, Heritage, and Indigenous Voice: Decolonising the Museum by Alexis Mixon

  30. Selections from “Focusing (Vol. II)” by alejandro t. acierto

  31. Book Review–Bone Rooms: Shedding Light on the Problematic Past of Anthropologists and Museums by Benjamin L. Locke

  32. Confronting the Holocaust: Immersive Counter-Memorials as Sites of Collective Memory by Lillian Hussong

  33. The White Palace of the West by Jonathan Kelley

  34. About the Contributors

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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