Comments on: Gonzo Exhibition Design http://newcurator.com/2009/07/gonzo-exhibition-design/ Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:35:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Pete http://newcurator.com/2009/07/gonzo-exhibition-design/comment-page-1/#comment-1192 Pete Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:15:54 +0000 http://newcurator.com/?p=1178#comment-1192 Thanks Dan. And thanks for adding a far better conclusion to my point. Thanks Dan. And thanks for adding a far better conclusion to my point.

]]> By: Dan Cull http://newcurator.com/2009/07/gonzo-exhibition-design/comment-page-1/#comment-1189 Dan Cull Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:24:54 +0000 http://newcurator.com/?p=1178#comment-1189 "Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it." (Hunter S. Thompson) I tend to think there are (at least) two museums in any one institution, the one the museum thinks exists, and the one(s) the visitors experience and create... in the past its mostly been a case of 'never the twain shall meet', however, your examples of Gonzo Museum Design puts the visitors version of the museum, and the visitors themselves, right in the face of the institution... in a way that it can't be avoided. The truth as seen through Gonzo. To my mind museums are, or could be, story tellers, weavers of accounts of the past (and contemporary society) from the available fragments of truth(s). Is the result a "fiction", or a truth based on the available evidence... and really is there any difference? Isn't that Gonzo (without the mind bending hallucinogens)! Thanks for a great post Pete! Cheers, Dan. “Fiction is based on reality unless you’re a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you’re writing about before you alter it.” (Hunter S. Thompson)

I tend to think there are (at least) two museums in any one institution, the one the museum thinks exists, and the one(s) the visitors experience and create… in the past its mostly been a case of ‘never the twain shall meet’, however, your examples of Gonzo Museum Design puts the visitors version of the museum, and the visitors themselves, right in the face of the institution… in a way that it can’t be avoided. The truth as seen through Gonzo.

To my mind museums are, or could be, story tellers, weavers of accounts of the past (and contemporary society) from the available fragments of truth(s). Is the result a “fiction”, or a truth based on the available evidence… and really is there any difference? Isn’t that Gonzo (without the mind bending hallucinogens)!

Thanks for a great post Pete!

Cheers, Dan.

]]> By: Happy Birthday Nina Simon | newcurator http://newcurator.com/2009/07/gonzo-exhibition-design/comment-page-1/#comment-1184 Happy Birthday Nina Simon | newcurator Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:15:58 +0000 http://newcurator.com/?p=1178#comment-1184 [...] 1000 people’s thoughts on a particular object achieves. I know I say this after quite liking The Odditorium’s encouragement of creative responses, but Museum 2.0 is what happens after. Are all those [...] [...] 1000 people’s thoughts on a particular object achieves. I know I say this after quite liking The Odditorium’s encouragement of creative responses, but Museum 2.0 is what happens after. Are all those [...]

]]>