This week I added 2 new aims and 1 additional objective for our group project. The new aims are: [in]visibility aims to take an intersectional approach; to explore how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the diverse but inseparable identities represented in our intended audience. [in]visibility aims to use a hyperlocal strategy, by concentrating the project […]
When first entering the webpage for Words and Photos by Iñaki Bonillas, you’re met with the below screen. © Iñaki Bonillas and Dia Art Foundation You are invited to enter a word and along the bottom of the screen there are two lines of seemingly unrelated words. I enter the word ‘thunder’ and nothing appears, […]
“They [the artists] have to get somebody as a progenitor so as not to look as though they invent it all by themselves. But art will be sunk or drowned by technology. […] Technology will surely drown us. The individual is disappearing rapidly. We’ll eventually be nothing but numbered ants.” Marcel Duchamp. Yesterday I started […]
I am preparing to set up a Facebook page for my dissertation research. Below I’ll briefly summarise 2 key pieces of literature that will help me to design the page, consider the challenges, ethical considerations and different uses of the platform. The first text is an article titled: Facebook as a Research Tool for the […]
Lecture: Maya Sharma and Joanne Robson from the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Centre (based in Manchester Central Library) discussing the centre’s Covid-19 contemporary collecting project. Reading: “First, Do No Harm”: Tread Carefully Where Oral History, Trauma, and Current Crises Intersect, Cramer, J.A. (2020). and ‘Hybrid Material Encounters – Expanding the Continuum of Museum Materialities […]
This blog post will describe the ‘epiphany’ that inspired this research – what Lorraine Daston describes as the life-changing moment that causes one to question other aspects of life. As stated in previous posts, for me this occurred when interacting with physical (non-digital) objects and having a visceral reaction as a result. Daston articulated this […]
For the 9th day of the placement with the decorative arts department at Walker art Gallery we begun a documentation project. The Walker use collections management software called Mimsy XG, a database in which every object in the collection is recorded. According to axiell.com Mimsy is used to: Manage all your collections data quickly, reliably and safely. Whether cataloguing, […]
I have begun to research the brand names recorded from the collection so far. The first I’ve looked into is ‘Jackson the Tailor’ – I have recorded two items with this brand name so far, both are 3-piece suits (see images). 1988.186 Man’s 3-piece wool suit by Jackson the Tailor c.1958 1988.186 Man’s 3-piece wool […]
Today we attended a lecture by Pauline at the Walker Art Gallery about the current temporary exhibition she curated, ‘Mrs Tinne’s Wardrobe: A Liverpool Lady’s Clothes 1910-1940‘. The public are able to buy a ticket to hear Pauline give information in addition to the exhibition, she advises that people attend the lecture before seeing the […]
Volunteering at the Portico Part 3: Supporting Library Events
Over the past 2 weeks I have volunteered at the Portico during the following events: Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater – talk by Journalist and Historian Ed Glinert. I was primarily responsible for preparing for the event, serving and selling drinks, arranging furniture and assisting people while they viewed and handled […]