Museum:Data:Laundry

Museum : Data : Laundry

  • Documentation and Decolonisation

    Documentation and Decolonisation

    This is the text of a talk I gave as part of the Doing the Work Programme, an online workshop series co-produced by Dr Ilaria Puri Purini at the Contemporary Art Society and Dr Anjalie Dalal-Clayton at the Decolonising Arts Institute (University of the Arts London). Kathleen Lawther chaired with incisive good judgement and care…

  • A bit of reflection

    A bit of reflection

    Last year around June (also the last time I posted on here), I think, Tehmina Goskar responded to an announcement about the project that I am currently working on (Provisional Semantics), with a little gentle probing and holding to account. I wrote back delighted to make contact, and since then there have been many interesting,…

  • Performing Solidarity

    Performing Solidarity

    Yesterday I watched the rush to perform solidarity from the UK GLAM sector stemming, in part, from the Museum Detox call for GLAM organisations to show solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and from a discussion with colleagues about how to do this. There is so much to address right now and arguably critiquing…

  • Statement to the Commission of Inquiry into the History of Eugenics at UCL

    Statement to the Commission of Inquiry into the History of Eugenics at UCL

    Earlier this year I was invited to meet with the Commission of Inquiry into the History of Eugenics at UCL as someone who might be able to assist with the understanding of the relationship between Francis Galton and UCL. Below is a slightly edited version of the statement I made to the committee based on…

  • Erasure of the curatorial voice…

    This is the text (without the not v. interesting images) of a short paper I gave at the Defining Curatorial Voice workshop in February 2019, which was part of James Baker and Andrew Salway’s excellent Curatorial Voice: legacy descriptions of art objects and their contemporary uses project at the Sussex Humanities Lab. Has the digitisation…

  • Links and Legacy: Galton Collection at UCL

    Timeline for Galton Collection research This is a link to a timeline charting the departmental, staff and location changes in the history of Francis Galton’s association and subsequent legacy at UCL. As such, it is partial, selective and far from complete; it is not intended to be a comprehensive account of Galton’s life or work,…

  • BRICKS + MORTALS

    BRICKS + MORTALS

    BRICKS + MORTALS: A history of eugenics told through buildings  Hear the story of UCL’s pioneering eugenicists through the landmark buildings and spaces named after them. Bricks+Mortals turns the buildings of the Bloomsbury campus into an exhibition, uncovering a history hidden in plain sight. I was very happy to be able to put some of…

  • A Curator’s Adventures in Documentation Land

    A Curator’s Adventures in Documentation Land

    Some first thoughts on museum documentation at the Galton Collection at UCL. Reposted from the UCL’s Museums and Collections Blog , February 2016 A Curator’s Adventures in Documentation Land One of the most controversial collections at UCL is, of course, the Galton Collection. Francis Galton, with his notorious interest in improving humans by selective breeding, or…

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