Post Colonial Gothic

Oh no, Clara's made up a new festival again.

The Wellcome collection had a new numbering system running alongside the usual one. At strategic locations artists, curators, academics, arts workers and more had been invited to add a contemporary and personal commentary to the artifacts. Here are some powerful examples around decolonisation. I am also pleased - and Dan was interested too - in the display of 'back of house' work. Seeing the classification and talking about the museum as a workplace with processes and as flawed is brilliant.

The one below was particularly hard hitting for me. It is powerful, I have put the images they refer to under the 'keep reading' so as not to perpetuate the sharing of others cultures for quick consumption, or to 'pretty' my feed. The changing of the titles of the pieces too was particularly brilliant. Recently I attended a session on representing the reality as part of the museum and heritage summer series and Sir Geoff Palmer was talking about how there are no sensitive topics, only the truth. The retitling of 'British tribe member tresspassing' reminds me of that discussion.