Most Important Function of Curators? #MIFC
Posted in Individualism, Museum Expansionism, Presentism on 14. Sep, 2009
Last time was an interesting exercise. Want to ask another question and compare the results.
Usual process. Respond to @newcurator on twitter, use the #MIFC hashtag (so I can keep track) or answer in the comments with a single sentence. Don’t worry if it doesn’t appear immediately. It has to go through a validation process.
I would really appreciate as many answers, retweets and passings-on as possible. With these things, it always works better this more people’s involvement.
I’ll probably do the Wordle and possibly a mug again, but this question really interests me because of my last post. Curators are changing into new roles yet others are considering the curator as an ideal. So its high time we need to ask:
to present and promote culture through creative, correct and contemporary means.
The Mona Lisa is protected from those that would go see it, as are all objects a museum holds. So much so that the objects themselves can hardly be seen as they once existed in the “real” world. As the importance of the human gets diminished in this process, the curators role should be to “invite” the viewer, wholeheartedly, into the conversation, into the museum. Exhibitions could represent the outside world, without the baggage and hierarchy. Museums should be safe for humans.
#MIFC