Although I like my idea for this project I was starting to think that it wasn't really that good and that it was too all over the place. I talked to Neneh and she helped me make sense of what I was going for with my ideas.
Here are some notes I made...
COLLECTIONS
• Recording
• Archiving
• Organising
• Visual data
• Accumulation
• Drawing together lots of seemingly disparate things. Which is what collecting/curating is, and in a sense what I've done with my research.
• This is what you're doing with the articles and contextual references - drawing together lots of things that have a theme. Curated research. Is it a thought process?
• NY Times 'What You Collect' - "Why do we amass certain objects?" "How do these collections affect us and those around us?"
• Curation - logic - putting things together
- heart - gathering objects that you're interested in
• Comparing and contrasting the 'high culture' collections (museums, institutions...) with the 'low culture' collections (personal collections, hobbyists, hoards...)
• What makes a collection gallery-worthy or worth exhibiting?
VISUAL INVESTIGATION / VISUAL RESEARCH
• You've curated in a sense those inspirations and points of reference for 505, creating links and connections between material.
• Maybe it's not about a location or place? - e.g. a museum
-> Meaning. Personal accumulations are just as meaningful and valid as a sacred historical object/artifact. Still have stories, histories, etc.
VALUE OF OBJECTS
• Look at museum and exhibition branding. Posters, publications...
• A publication? - aimed at people that go to public institutions, encouraging them to continue being interested and inquisitive
• Campaign? - posters, ads. "be inquisitive" "be investigative"
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