Asia and Africa on Display: a core module on the MA Curating Cultures

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Week 1 Oct 5: Introduction: Asia and Africa on display and the histories and ideologies of curating, Dr. Heidi Tan

Week 1: Please introduce yourself and tell us about an exhibition or museum you've visited recently.

Week 1: lecture

Week 1 lecture recording

Week 1 tutorial slides

Week 2 Oct 12: Architecture, and the ‘museum effect’. Dr. Heidi Tan. Pre-recorded lecture and discussion. 3.30pm group activity at the British Museum.

Week 2: recorded lecture i) - Architecture and the 'Museum Effect'

Week 2: recorded lecture ii) - The 'Museum Effect'

Week 2 pre-recorded lecture i) Architecture

Week 2: pre-recorded lecture ii) The 'Museum Effect'

Exhibiting Interventions - Baxandall

Art Museums and the Ritual of Citizenship

The Museum as a Way of Seeing - Svetlana Alpers

Handout for British Museum fieldwork

Thoughts, photos, notes on the visit to the BM today...

Week 2 tutorial

Week 3 Oct 19: Colonialism and the Display of Asia and Africa. Dr. Heidi Tan and Stephen Murphy

Week 3 lecture

Week 3 lecture recording

Week 3 lecture II: Case study on Angkor in Paris

Week 3 lecture II: Case study recording

Week 3 additional tutorial activity

Week 3: MacGregor 2010

Week 4 Oct 26: India on Display, Dr. Crispin Branfoot

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Kavita Singh: An Embarrasement of Riches (recorded lecture)

4. India on Display (PP as pdf)

Week 5 Nov 2: Curating African Collections at the British Library. Eyob Derillo.

Online tutorial for AS1

AS1 tutorial slides

Week 5 - tutorial slides

Week 6 Nov 16: Concept to Legacy – China’s Hidden Century, Jessica Harrison-Hall, Head of the China Section, British Museum

Time Slot: Burma to Myanmar exhibition at British Museum

Week 6 forum: post your thoughts, photos, notes on the special exhibitions discussed and visited this week.

Burma to Myanmar photos

Week 7 Nov 23: Curating Burma to Myanmar, Dr. Alexandra Green, Henry Ginsburg Curator for Southeast Asia, Department of Asia at the British Museum

From India to Independence_2016

Introduction to Burma to Myanmar_Green 2023

Tutorial

Week 7 lecture recording

Week 8 Nov 30: From digital reconstruction to urban art: tradition versus modernisation in an Italian museum of Asian art. Dr. Marco Guglielminotti Trivel

Tutorial week 8

Week 8 lecture

Arts of Asia 2022

Spallone et al 2021

Week 9 Dec 7: Curator Olivia Aherne will introduce the work of Alia Farid, Chisenhale Gallery (1 Dec – 4 Feb 24) . Respondent: Professor Ashley Thompson

Central Line to Chisenhale Gallery

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Curator's tour at the Chisenhale Gallery

Week 9 Tutorial Slides

Week 10 Dec 14: Decolonising the Museum, Dr. Heidi Tan

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