Remix: Changing Conversations in Museums of the Americas - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0520284534 ISBN 13 : 9780520284531

Editeur : University of California Press, 2016

Synopsis

Celebrating the diversity of institutions in the United States, Latin America, and Canada, Remix aims to change the discourse about museums from the inside out, proposing a new, “panarchic”—nonhierarchical and adaptive—vision for museum practice. Selma Holo and Mari-Tere Álvarez offer an unconventional approach, one premised on breaching conventional systems of communication and challenging the dialogues that drive the field. Featuring more than forty authors in and around the museum world, Remix frames a series of vital case studies demonstrating how specific museums, large and small, have profoundly advanced or creatively redefined their goals to meet their ever-changing worlds.

Contributors: Piedade Grinberg (Brazil), Nichole Anderson (Canada), Dr. James D. Fleck O.C. (Canada), Vanda Vitali (Canada), Lydia Bendersky (Chile), Andres Navia (Colombia), Manuel Araya-Incera (Costa Rica), Oscar Arias (Costa Rica), Alejandro de Avila Blomberg (Mexico), Marco Barerra Bassols (Mexico), Cuauhtémoc Camarena Ocampo (Mexico), Miguel Fernández Félix (Mexico), Demian Flores (Mexico), Teresa Morales (Mexico), Nelly Robles (Mexico), Hector Feliciano (Puerto Rico), Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru), Santiago Palomero Plaza (Spain), Maxwell L. Anderson (United States), Susana Bautista (United States), Graham W. J. Beal (United States), Jane Burrell (United States), Thomas P. Campbell (United States), Erica Clark (United States), Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh (United States), Kristina van Dyke (United States), William Fox (United States), Ben Garcia (United States), Ivan Gaskell (United States), Tomas W Hanchett (United States), Richard Koshalek (United States), Clare Kunny (United States), Stephen E. Nash (United States), Joanne Northrup (United States), Jane G. Pisano (United States), Edward Rothstein (United States), Karen Satzman (United States), Lori Starr (United States), Carlos Tortolero (United States), David Wilson (United States), Fred Wilson (United States), Guillermo Barrios (Venezuela), Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (Venezuela)
 

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Selma Holo is Professor of Art History at University of Southern California and Director of USC’s Fisher Museum of Art and International Museum Institute. She is the author of Beyond the Prado: Museums and Identity in Democratic Spain and Oaxaca at the Crossroads: Managing Memory, Negotiating Change and a coeditor of Beyond the Turnstile: Making the Case for Museums and Sustainable Values.
 
Mari-Tere Álvarez is Project Specialist at the J. Paul Getty Museum and Associate Director of USC’s International Museum Institute. She coedited Beyond the Turnstile: Making the Case for Museums and Sustainable Values and Arts, Crafts, and Materials in the Age of Global Encounter, 1492–1800, a special edition of the Journal of Interdisciplinary History.

 

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"Reading the essays in this courageous book is like attending a life-changing professional conference and joining a buoyant conversation with a group of brilliant mentors and peers. Taken together, this collection of ideas, opinions, and experiences, ably interpreted by Selma Holo and Mari-Tere Álvarez, argues that museums in the Americas  are willing not only to do the hard work to become vital and nimble places that address contemporary social justice issues but also to put words into action."—Marjorie Schwarzer, Museum Studies Program, University of San Francisco

"Selma Holo and Mari-Tere Álvarez bring together thought leaders from around the Americas to share their experiences, desires, and predictions for the future of the museum field. Like a best-practice museum, this book is organized to allow for multiple entry points to address a broad range of inquiries and interests among its readers. It will ignite many more conversations about our field’s leaders and the role museums must play in a civil society."—Melody Kanschat, Executive Director, Getty Leadership Institute

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Remix

Changing Conversations in Museums of the Americas

By Selma Holo, Mari-Tere Álvarez

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

Copyright © 2016 The Regents of the University of California
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-520-28453-1

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments, ix, 
Introduction: Panarchy and the Museum, 1, 
CHAPTER ONE. Origins, 
CHAPTER TWO. Conserving, 
CHAPTER THREE. Uncertainty, 
CHAPTER FOUR. Renewal, 
Creating Your Own Conversations in a Panarchy of Museums, 217, 
Our Writers: A Pan-American Highway, 219, 
Contributors, 221, 

CHAPTER 1

Origins

Reflecting on Origins

SELMA HOLO AND MARI-TERE ÁLVAREZ

We open chapter 1 celebrating origins, the first phase of the panarchic museum loop. Unique as every museum may become, there will always be, at the beginning of its life cycle, a profound desire for meaning-making that can only be fulfilled by the creation of a museum. Nine reflections on this earliest phase of the museums of our time bear witness to that kinship lying at the very heart of the museum enterprise. Characterized by vision, optimism, passion, intelligence, empathy, and energy, as well as an implicit expectation that the museum whose story is being told will be sustainable, these texts convey that kindred desire well. They also reveal the distinct challenges that accompany the origins phase — challenges faced and, to a greater or lesser degree, met. Within each museum's origin story is a distinct and individuated future, one that will be shaped by a particular set of hard economic, political, psychological, environmental, and/or cultural trials. This first phase of the loop will always, though, be associated with particular kinds of challenges related to accumulation, building, innovation, and growth. These challenges will be met by men and women possessing those very qualities of vision and passion, intelligence, optimism, and energy mentioned above. However, as necessary as these qualities are to give shape and form to a museum's beginnings, we will see in subsequent chapters that they are not necessarily the qualities that will guarantee its long-term resilience and sustainability. But that is for later; for now, we are celebrating beginnings and the personality types that launch museums. These are museums of many types, of different scales and sizes, and of different imaginations. Being aware of them, as we are doing by reading the nine texts panarchically, by giving them the equal weight of our attention, underlines the infinite variety available to us as we think about the museums we help build, and those that are parts of our lives as museum goers, workers, visitors, and leaders.

First, we become acquainted with a powerful lecture by the former president of Costa Rica, Óscar Arias Sánchez, in which he argues for his museum of peace. This is his foundational statement, directed to a global audience, and it is a passionate plea. President Arias's clarion call, and the accompanying text a few years later, delivered by Manuel Araya-Incera to the Global Conference of Peace Museums, emphasize that this peace museum would go beyond the usual expectations for this type of museum. More than a mere depository for documents, it would be a dynamic education site promoting peace — a model for other nations. What is unique about the ambitions of Arias and his foundation is that their museum would be a mirror of Costa Rica's actual cornerstone national policy of peace. It is rare to capture the moment of inception of a museum. Since that moment, Arias's peace museum has gathered and put i

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520284534
• ISBN 13: 9780520284531
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 223
• Éditeur: Holo Selma, Alvarez Mari-Tere
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