CURATING A COLLECTION

-  Critical Reading-  Hermeneutics: How we read and

interpret “texts”

-  Not at face value, but deeper examination

-  Reinterpret, reconstruct for improved clarity and readability

-  Possible ambiguities, flaws, implicit messages, biases

-  How to address the piece, its location, its purpose on campus, within this collection, in relation to you or another body of people…

-  But to understand the piece, you need to understand the artist, the iconography, the imagery, references, the ongoing history of the genre (see 13 Ways…)àRESEARCH!

-  Can’t be critical without some knowledge and research

What is it?Where is it? Why?What is it saying?How is it used?For whom was it created?For whom does it exist?Who is represented?How are they represented?Who is doing the telling? The hearing?What do you see?What can you touch?What do you feel?What do you think?Where are you?

Banksy, Jesus Christ with Shopping Bags

Banksy, Napalm

AdBusters

Wayne White, Beauty is Embarrassin’

Wayne White, your Lameass Theory

Fred Wilson, Cabinet Making