Consisting of several large rooms which will be restored to accomodate the collections and rotating exhibitions, a restaurant and a shop...
There is also plan to acquire another warehouse, nearby, to create a larger museum complex.
Monday 22 October 2007
SITE: An 18th CENTURY WAREHOUSE
Consisting of several large rooms which will be restored to accomodate the collections and rotating exhibitions, a restaurant and a shop...
There is also plan to acquire another warehouse, nearby, to create a larger museum complex.
REQUIREMENTS
Students wishing to register for this workshop, must be computer literate and be able to work with CS2 (In-Design, Photoshop, etc.) and Blogger [Blogger.com] as well as with software appropriate to any medium (sound, video, etc.) you would like to work during the project.
Work will be team-based; to ensure that each team is made up of individuals who have a variety of skills suitable to deal with the issues raised by the brief and with the tasks at hand.
You are also advised to do a preliminary survey of the ways museums are organized around the world and compile a dossier for future reference.
One key requirement for and learning outcome of this projects is RESOURCEFULNESS: the capacity to gather a maximum of relevant informations (via a variety of channels of communication) approrpiate to the tasks at hand...
Work will be team-based; to ensure that each team is made up of individuals who have a variety of skills suitable to deal with the issues raised by the brief and with the tasks at hand.
You are also advised to do a preliminary survey of the ways museums are organized around the world and compile a dossier for future reference.
One key requirement for and learning outcome of this projects is RESOURCEFULNESS: the capacity to gather a maximum of relevant informations (via a variety of channels of communication) approrpiate to the tasks at hand...
Sunday 21 October 2007
CONTEXT: A MUSEUM FOR KERALA
In April-May, during an artist residency at KASHI ART GALLERY, in Kochi, I developed a new series of photographic works.
The project involved taking photographs of antique objects and artefacts in some of the antique shops and antique warehouses of Jew Town, in Kochi; whose owners had granted me permission to photograph from their collections.
My initial intention was to produce works along the lines I had developed in my on-going 'HISTOIRES...' series
(see: histoires-museographies.blogspot.com).
Things worked out differently, however, as after producing a few 'Histoires...', I began to photograph individual objects—in particular MASKS:
which I presented as if floating in individual VIRTUAL SHOWCASES, against a white background:
[Click on image to enlarge]
This transition from STAGE to SHOWCASE marked the begining of a new series, titled 'MUSEO-GRAPHIES', in which museum objects are presented in such a way as to tell STORIES about HISTORY, rather than to present themselves as cultural artefacts or 'Art' objects.
Upon seeing this work, one of the dealers, who intends to open a MUSEUM in an Eighteenth Century warehouse, asked me whether I would be interested in curating the collections according to similar principles: a case of LIFE imitating ART...
The project involved taking photographs of antique objects and artefacts in some of the antique shops and antique warehouses of Jew Town, in Kochi; whose owners had granted me permission to photograph from their collections.
My initial intention was to produce works along the lines I had developed in my on-going 'HISTOIRES...' series
(see: histoires-museographies.blogspot.com).
Things worked out differently, however, as after producing a few 'Histoires...', I began to photograph individual objects—in particular MASKS:
which I presented as if floating in individual VIRTUAL SHOWCASES, against a white background:
[Click on image to enlarge]
This transition from STAGE to SHOWCASE marked the begining of a new series, titled 'MUSEO-GRAPHIES', in which museum objects are presented in such a way as to tell STORIES about HISTORY, rather than to present themselves as cultural artefacts or 'Art' objects.
Upon seeing this work, one of the dealers, who intends to open a MUSEUM in an Eighteenth Century warehouse, asked me whether I would be interested in curating the collections according to similar principles: a case of LIFE imitating ART...
'TOTAL DESIGN' PROJECT
WELCOME to the TOTAL DESIGN Project, which will be running at SRISHTI College, Bangalore, as part of the inter-semester programme: from 15th to 6th DECEMBER, 2007.
Led by artist-designer-curator Gérard Mermoz (France/UK), who ran a series of experimental workshops about Photography, Sound and Text, last year, on the same programme, the seminar will focus on and explore the concept of 'TOTAL DESIGN'.
Unlike the concept of 'Communication Design', which involves 'giving form' (In German and Dutch, the word 'design' is 'form-giving') to a pre-existing MESSAGE supplied by the CLIENT, 'TOTAL DESIGN' involves engaging and dealing with ALL aspects of communication: from the generation of IDEAS/CONTENT to their implementation, at ALL LEVELS of the COMMUNICATION process.
Led by artist-designer-curator Gérard Mermoz (France/UK), who ran a series of experimental workshops about Photography, Sound and Text, last year, on the same programme, the seminar will focus on and explore the concept of 'TOTAL DESIGN'.
Unlike the concept of 'Communication Design', which involves 'giving form' (In German and Dutch, the word 'design' is 'form-giving') to a pre-existing MESSAGE supplied by the CLIENT, 'TOTAL DESIGN' involves engaging and dealing with ALL aspects of communication: from the generation of IDEAS/CONTENT to their implementation, at ALL LEVELS of the COMMUNICATION process.
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