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Day 2: SPEAKERS

Thematic Papers Session 4A – Partnerships

Thematic Papers Session 4A – Partnerships

Session Time: 11.00am
Venue: Ngee Ann Auditorium, B1

Moving Beyond the Model of the Irenic Museum: Study of the Process of Co-creating a Digital Experience for the Arts of One World Collection at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts

Ms Laura Delfino
Manager of Educational Programs – Research, Innovation and Digital Mediation, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Depuis l’affirmation de son rôle social, le musée a été encouragé à se considérer comme un agent d’inclusion et a mis en place une série de stratégies participatives afin de servir un public de plus en plus large (Anderson 2014, Eidelman 2017, Mairesse 2017, Watson 2007). Toutefois, encore trop souvent, lorsque le public est invité à collaborer avec le musée, le processus de cocréation se déroule généralement selon les codes établis par l’institution (Kassim 2017, Lynch 2017).

Préoccupées par des questions d’équité, de diversité, d’inclusion et de décolonisation (EDID), les panélistes visent à documenter et analyser les stratégies de cocréation mises en place dans les musées d’art, afin de formuler une critique du momentum participatif. Notre recherche emprunte aux théories de la démocratie radicale de Ernesto Laclau et Chantal Mouffe (2009), afin de mieux comprendre les dynamiques de pouvoir inscrites dans les processus de cocréation.

Plus précisément, cette communication présente les premiers résultats de l’analyse du processus de cocréation de la démarche d’innovation centrée sur l’humain conçue par PRISME, le laboratoire d’innovation en médiation numérique du Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal (MBAM), par l’étude du développement d’un dispositif qui sera présenté dans les salles des Arts du Tout-Monde du MBAM.

Appelée RAMY, Regarde à travers mes yeux, cette application Web donne la parole aux Montréalais et Montréalaises issus de communautés culturelles et qui n’ont pas l’habitude de fréquenter les musées.

Le processus de cocréation et les outils développés par PRISME, favorisent-ils le partage d’autorité entre l’institution et ses publics ? Quelles perspectives et interprétations le musée espère-t-il susciter ? Comment assurer dans la durée ces formes alternatives de savoirs?

GivingBAC: Developing a Long-Term Sustainable Ecosystem in Arts Reaching Communities

Ms Sharon Chen
Senior Manager, Learning & Outreach, National Gallery Singapore
Ms Dee Chia
Deputy Director, Audience Engagement, National Gallery Singapore
Ms Rachel Oh
Senior Executive, Learning & Outreach, National Gallery Singapore

GivingBAC is a new outreach programme at the National Gallery with the aim to bring art beyond the walls of the museum and to the communities. By working with community care organisations and community artists to harness the transformative nature of art, givingBAC is an exploration of a new way of community building where co-creation and person-centred approach drive the programme creation process. In this presentation, the team will share key learnings from the pilot programme involving seniors from a Senior Care Centre and students in an intergenerational participatory art programme. Through the sessions, intergeneration relationships develop organically as the seniors are empowered to direct the pace and content of the programme and the students apply theory to practice in a flipped classroom approach.

Migrator’s Cuisine: Re-Encounter with Museum, Alternative Space and Local Community

Ms Ju Mei, Wu
Media Public Relations Promotion, National Museum of Taiwan History
Hsu Pin, Lee
Visual Artist and Researcher, National Museum of Taiwan History

National Museum of Taiwan History collaborated with alternative art space and Er-Kong military village developed a project ‘Collecting life stories of senior citizen and re-creating’. Er-Kong military village is one of the compounds for those Chinese military personnel who were defeated in Chinese civil war and retreated to Taiwan.

The project set up a stage for these elders who living in diasporic condition to reveal their ways of surviving in alien soil and how they establish their new identity through the transformation of their tradition cuisine. At the end of 2018 we collected all their life recipes and generated an experimental exhibition ‘Migrator’s Cuisine’. Afterwards the exhibition was presented and touring to another 3 different communities in 2019. In this article we addressed on issues of complementary partnership among museum, alternative art space and local community. Try to start a discussion if personal life experience and community memory are worth writing and how, beside the mainstream and official history.

Inspiring Understanding: The Malay Heritage Centre’s Impactful Strategies for Teaching About Ramadan and Hari Raya

Ms Shereen Tan
Senior Manager (Outreach & Education), National Heritage Board

To deliver Malay culture and heritage in a meaningful and accessible manner has been at the heart of what the Malay Heritage Centre (MHC), a heritage institution managed by the National Heritage Board (NHB), Singapore does.

As part of Ministry of Education (MOE) Singapore’s 21st Century Competencies which aims to develop students who “uphold harmony and appreciate the unity and diversity of a multicultural society”, MOE designates Hari Raya Puasa, which is celebrated by the Muslim community, as a key festival for celebration in schools.

To support schools’ celebration, MHC has been providing an information banner on Hari Raya which schools can loan since 2017. In the last few years, MHC expanded its resources to include a catalogue and an interactive pop-up exhibition with scavenger hunt that travels to schools.

The decision to expand and improvise the resources was a result of a structured evaluation approach in implementing and reviewing its initiative every year. This included on-site observations, pre- and “post- programme” surveys and even experimentation with Machine Learning to identify the impact of how a visit was facilitated could impact the experience of the students.

Hear from the Malay Heritage Centre’s innovation journey in supporting schools to deliver a lived cultural experience, our design and evaluation approaches as well as our upcoming plans for the future.

Representing Community Voices at the Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM): Installations by External Community Curator

Ms Melissa Viswani
Assistant Director, Asian Civilisations Museum, National Heritage Board

ACM focuses on the many historical connections between cultures and civilisations in Asia, and between Asia and the world. One of the key focus of the museum has been to engage members of various communities – inter-faith, schools, access, etc., by representing their voices in exhibitions and programmes.

This paper will focus on an upcoming exhibition, the first one at ACM, that will explore trade across the Pacific Ocean in the 16th to 19th centuries, connecting Asia to the Americas and Europe. This trade gave rise to rich, vibrant multi-racial communities in Manila and Acapulco in Mexico. As part of the overall curatorial and educational approach, the rich story of global artistic and cultural exchange will be told through partnerships with members of the communities whose ancestors were impacted by these interactions. This partnership will culminate in the creation and installation of two artworks by an external community curator, highlighting the diversity and commonalities that make these cultures what they are today.

This case study will discuss the importance of collaboration and co-creation. Museums shape the future of education by presenting diversity in its exhibitions and by allowing for conversations to take place by inviting communities through its doors. In a world that focuses on differences, museums can be a space to bring different communities together. It is especially crucial to create that awareness amongst the young in multi-cultural, multi-faith Singapore.