Onward with that Spunkadelic Avant-Garde Museographic Practices Œmnibus
Contemporary Museum Education & Beyond
Course + Œmnibus: digital/online compendium; MOOC, with accompanying lectures, texts, resources, and participative contributions; https://www.kadenze.com/courses/contemporary-museum-education/info
Online
2018, Kadenze.com
Onward with that Spunkedelic Avant-garde Museographic Practices Œmnibus! (OSAMPO!) is a constellation of proposals, a spectrum of provocative actions, a plethora of museographic overtures, a series of vanguardist dares–and a course on contemporary museum education. A realm of disruptive thinking and doing, a universe of practical and theoretical investigations, an exploration of the ways learning can happen in museums and expand beyond its walls. A critical intervention. A social design initiative. A political engagement… The course ultimately provides a plethora of positions and morphs into a grand manifesto where we delve into what museums can do, but also what one could do with, to, and through museums. Proposing ways to innovate, fashioning radical visions, creating through and with the museum as material. Contemporary Museum Education is about invigorating the galleries. Activating them. It’s all about writing the museum, as in a full writing act. And soon enough too, turning the types of work we are doing into art—yes, art, formally speaking. Writing the museum. Arting the museum. Designing and transforming the museum.
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An Oemnibus…
Yes, an online, or e-, omnibus, that gathers, in a network, the various engagements with museums.
The works, within museums. From the GLEx to articles to the Alz Project.
Not a book–what for–but an oemnibus.
It’s also, however, a sort of goodbye to all that. A goodbye that likes to go with a call to all the possibilities and the future funkiness of the museum world. Thus the title. Not just funky, but an opening. Onward, yes, for all…