Negotiating Materiality: International and Local Museum Practices at the Vanuatu Cultural Centre and National Museum
@article{Geismar2003NegotiatingMI, title={Negotiating Materiality: International and Local Museum Practices at the Vanuatu Cultural Centre and National Museum}, author={Haidy Geismar and Christopher Y. Tilley}, journal={Oceania}, year={2003}, volume={73}, pages={170-188} }
In this paper, we examine the idiosyncratic ways in which the Vanuatu Cultural Centre has incorporated global museum technologies into highly localised systems of object management. The convergence of understandings of subject-object relations, and indeed of materiality, highlights the effects of museum practices of objectification on local practice as well as the effects of local agenda on museum practice. In constructing a holistic analysis of the current work of the Vanuatu Cultural Centre…
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