A BLOG
COLLECTION, CURATION, MUSEUMS
This was has been my favourite course in the span of two years. I like old things and I like art and this course was both and more.
We started with objects, for which I picked my dad's Olympus Film Camera. This opened me to a whole new part of the Photography World with Susan Sontag and films like Kodachrome.
The other part of the course was to pick a museum and explore it in as much depth as we could, for which I picked Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. Introduction to Memorials in the arena of Museums has changed my life. How tricky the representation of sensitive subjects that too about traumatic histories is insanely interesting. When is the right time to make a museum about genocide? Is it even the right thing to do to make genocide museums at all? Who are they made for? The successors of victims or the uninformed? The questions around this subject are endless and are only answered with either more questions or with answers which lie in grey areas. Something I could talk about for a very long time.
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The picture here is a picture of my very enthusiastic father posing with his camera while I was interviewing him for the Object Analysis assignment.
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The last module was making museums on ourselves. This made all the concepts I had learned in the course come down to simple terms which were easy to not only understand but also easy to relate to.
This was though very difficult. Not all of us have high self esteem.