Collecting the Museum: a film festival (11/2)

Organized by the Visual Praxis Collective crossdisciplinary research cluster
Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington

Friday, November 2, 2007
Henry Art Gallery Auditorium

This boxroom of the forgotten or hardly possible Is laid with the snares of privacy and fiction And the dangerous third wish.
—James Fenton, “The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford”

How do museums shape collective memory?

What are the politics and possibilities of different forms of visual exhibition?

This film festival presents a variety of cinematic and documentary takes on aesthetic, archival, and ethnographic impulses in museum practices of collection and display.

9:30-11:30 am
Histories of Display
* Introduction
* Bontoc Eulogy, Marlon Fuentes, 1995 (Media Center Call No. Videorecord CG 027)
* In Search of the Hamat’sa: A Tale of Headhunting, Aaron Glass, 2007 (Media Center Call No. DVD DER 036).

12:45-2:15 pm
Sites of Memory
* Introduction
* Toute la Mémoire du Monde, Alain Resnais, 1956 (Media Center Call No. DVD OPT 002).
* The Phantom Museum: Random Forays into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome’s Medical Collection, Quay Brothers, 2003 (Media Center Call No. DVD ZF 032)
* Erasing Memory: The Cultural Destruction of Iraq, Suzy Salamy, 2004 (Available online at www.archive.org).

2:30-3:45 pm
Artifactual Journeys
* Introduction
* In and Out of Africa, Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Taylor, 1992 (Media Center Call No. Videorecord UCEMC 38230).
* Fang: An Epic Journey, Susan Vogel, 2001 (Media Center Call No. Videorecord PSP 001).

4:00-5:30

Roundtable Discussion on Curatorial Practice ~ With members of the UW/EMP team behind American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music
UW Guest Curators: Marisol Berríos-Miranda, Latin American Studies; Michelle Habell-Pallán, Women Studies; Shannon Dudley, Ethnomusicology
UW Guest Associate Curators: Robert Carroll, Ph.C. Ethnomusicology; Francisco Orozsco, Doctoral Candidate, Ethnomusicology
Experience Music Project, Director of Curatorial Affairs: Jasen Emmons
Wonder Mine Designs, Exhibition Designer: Ken Burns

Special thanks to:
* UW Libraries Media Center
* Henry Art Gallery

The Visual Praxis Collective explores visual theory and methods in research,pedagogy, and public scholarship. Research cluster members meet regularly to discuss works-in-progress by faculty and graduate students and to curate quarterly public programs encouraging critical inquiry into how visual practices shape understanding. www.simpsoncenter.org/vpc


The Visual Praxis Collective invites you to an upcoming talk that is part of the Collecting the Museum program:
Memory and Public Art as Critical Pedagogies:
A Museum of Memory in Medellín, Colombia
Pilar Riaño-Alcalá
Assistant Professor, Social Work & Latin American Studies, University of British Columbia
Monday, November 26 • 3:30-5:00 pm • Communications 120