01 - Constituting Cultural Heritage

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Cultural heritage, curation & creatiWeek 01 - Introduction & Constituting Cultural Heritage


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Course structure

Studio-practicum course

Weekly lectures / seminar discussions

Independent projects

Group project

Studio crit presentations

Final project report


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Weekly Lectures

Each week 2 students will work together to present the

readings assigned for discussion that week.

Signup for specific weeks will be available online.

Additional content will be presented by Dr Russell.


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Readings

All readings will be made available digitally via Dropbox.

Additionally readings may be assigned/changed as deemednecessary throughout the course to address any unexpected

trajectories of interest in the class.


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Assignments

There are 4 written assignments - totalling approximately 10

pages.

There are a series of deadlines relating to the independent

projects which will be treated as assignments.


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Independent projectsA project proposal including a statement, project description, academic rationale, timeand outline of final deliverables. The proposal must also include plans address practicissues of health and safety, audience engagement, publicity/communicaiton, executioetc.

An oral presentation to the class in a studio critique format.

A written project report supported by research, evidence and argumentation andaddressing the readings and discussions of the entire course. This must also include aassessment of the critical successes and fails of the project in respect to the initial proproposals stated ambitions, intentions and outcomes. It must also demonstrate anengagement with the perspectives and feedback from the in class studio presentation

A revised project proposal demonstrating critical, practical and professional developmbased on the experience of the executing the project and critical feedback from the in

class studio critiques. The revised proposal should be presented as if it were beingsubmitted to granting body as a professional project.


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Group project

Students will collaboratively conceptualize, develop and

implement a creative cultural heritage project which be featu

in Aprils Gallery Night. All students will be required toparticipate in the development, execution, reflection and

evaluation of the program in both written and oral forms.


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Field trips and film nights

These are designed to enrich and provide practical applicati

of critical thought.

There will be one field trip to Fall River to visit Battleship CovThis will be on a Saturday.

There will be two film nights.


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cultural heritage


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cultural heritage : natural herita


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For the purpose of this Convention, the following shall be considered as

"cultural heritage":

monuments: architectural works, works of monumental sculpture andpainting, elements or structures of an archaeological nature, inscriptions, cdwellings and combinations of features, which are of outstanding universavalue from the point of view of history, art or science;

groups of buildings: groups of separate or connected buildings which,because of their architecture, their homogeneity or their place in the landscare of outstanding universal value from the point of view of history, art orscience;

sites: works of man or the combined works of nature and man, and areas

including archaeological sites which are of outstanding universal value fromhistorical, aesthetic, ethnological or anthropological point of view.

UNESCO CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION

OF THE WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE


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For the purposes of this Convention, the following shall be considered

"natural heritage":

natural features consisting of physical and biological formations orgroups of such formations, which are of outstanding universal value fthe aesthetic or scientific point of view;

geological and physiographical formations and precisely delineaareas which constitute the habitat of threatened species of animals aplants of outstanding universal value from the point of view of scienceconservation;

natural sites or precisely delineated natural areas of outstanding

universal value from the point of view of science, conservation or natubeauty.

UNESCO CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION

OF THE WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE


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culture : nature


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heritage


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intangible heritage


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The intangible cultural heritage means the practices,representations, expressions, knowledge, skills as well as th

instruments, objects, artefacts and cultural spaces associatedtherewith that communities, groups and, in some cases,individuals recognize as part of their cultural heritage. Thisintangible cultural heritage, transmitted from generation togeneration, is constantly recreated by communities and groupresponse to their environment, their interaction with nature andhistory, and provides them with a sense of identity and continuthus promoting respect for cultural diversity and human creativFor the purposes of this Convention, consideration will be givesolely to such intangible cultural heritage as is compatible withexisting international human rights instruments, as well as withrequirements of mutual respect among communities, groups aindividuals, and of sustainable development.

UNESCO CONVENTION FOR THE SAFEGUARDING OF THE INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HER


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The intangible cultural heritage, as defined in

paragraph 1 above, is manifested inter alia in thefollowing domains:

(a) oral traditions and expressions, including languaas a vehicle of the intangible cultural heritage;(b) performing arts;(c) social practices, rituals and festive events;(d) knowledge and practices concerning nature anduniverse;

(e) traditional craftsmanship.

UNESCO CONVENTION FOR THE SAFEGUARDING OF THE INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HER


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intangible


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tangible : intangible


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what is heritage?

Things/Objects

Performances

Ideas

Economics (126,700 full-time jobs = 1 in 12 jobs)

Ecologies

Space - social agreements

Legislature

People


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what is heritage?

Exchange relationship between two

Arborescence - family trees and inheritance (grown out of

specific European context)

Lineages and linear temporalities

Who are the inheritors (ethno-politics)

Genetic Kinship

A negotiable concept/relationship


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heritages and group identities


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in everyday life, human beings graspelements of the material world, andconstitute them as evidence for past humapractice archaeology as science is base

on this prescientific way of being attuned tthe world -Julian Thomas 1996


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The two processes are in fact identical, except that the analyst workunder better conditions and has more material at his command to as

him, since what he is dealing with is not something destroyed butsomething that is still alive and perhaps for another reason as well.

just as the archaeologist builds up the walls of the building from thefoundations that have remained standing, determines the number anposition of the columns from depressions in the floor and reconstructthe mural decorations and paintings from the remains found in the

debris, so does the analyst proceed when he draws his inferences frothe fragments of memories, from the associations and from thebehaviour of the subject of the analysis.

Sigmund Freud, Constructions in Analysis in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of SigmFreud, Vol. XXIII, James Strachey (ed.). (London: 1964): 257-269.


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all psychoanalytic knowledge must begin with thindividuals relations with others (Greenberg and

Mitchell 1983: 9)


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FREUDS MAYPOLE OF LEADER-FOLLOWER INTERACTIONAFTER VOLKAN 2003

maypole or leader

tethers or leader-follower interaction


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a sustained feeling of inner sameness within oneself

[and] a persistent sharing of some kind of essentialcharacter with others.-Eric Erickson, 1956

the subjective experience of thousands or millions ofpeople who are connected by a persistent sense ofsimilitude

-Vamik Volkan, 2003


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VOLKANS TENT OF LARGE GROUP IDENTITYAFTER VOLKAN 2003

Tent Canvas or Group Intra-Action

(tethers become threads and are

woven together )

Tent Pole or

Leader

(maypole now has additional

role of keeping tent up)

Group exists under tent as protection, keeping pole up (leader in power),

maintaining integrity of canvas and keeping it taught


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VOLKANS MODEL OF LARGE GROUP IDENTITYAFTER VOLKAN 2003


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Relativity of intersubjective relationships

Object about which (or whom) an individual spea

will not necessarily behave in a way that anotherobserver of the same object would confirm(Greenberg and Mitchell 1983)


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despite apparent multiplicity

and intersubjectivity


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Epistemophilia, the lusty search forknowledge of origins, is everywhere

-Donna Haraway 1997, 255


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linearity

hierarchical

progress driven

entrenched in the politics ofverticality


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citizenship and heritage

being ofsomeone/somewhere

(royal/serfdom)

being from somewhere

(nation/blood/ethnological)

being somewhere

(civic/community participation - ecological sensibilitie


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Generalising

Structurally the same acphenomena

Partibility

Boundaries/divisions/sur

Stratification


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MYCELLIA

Universal constants,

but no singular

structural form


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MYCELLIA

A fruiting body the

fruit is not distinctfrom the mycelia

but is a continuation

and is permeatedby it


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MYCELLIA

Biopulping and regeneration

Phanerochaete chrysohiza helps tocrumble a forest log into compost

Symbiotic ecological

process convertsdecay to create fertile

ground for new

possibilities


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MYCELLIA

Shotgun fungus (Piloblus)

feeding and growing uponrabbit dung

Feeds off the decay

of material residues

(past events)


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MYCELLIA

The Silent Stalkers

The predatory movements of

Cordyceps myrmecophila

They can be invasive

and destructive in

their acts of creation

Ergot - caused by the fungus Claviceps purpurea


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MYCELLIA

Impacts across perceived natural

boundaries

Mycological

process and its

performance

have social

consequences


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heritages are constitutional


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1937 B ht hEi


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1937 Bunreacht na hEireann

Act 2 - It is the entitlement and birthright of evperson born in the island of Ireland, which inclu

its islands and seas, to be part of the Irish NatThat is also the entitlement of all persons otherw

qualified in accordance with law to be citizensIreland. Furthermore, the Irish nation cherishesspecial affinity with people of Irish ancestry liv

abroad who share its cultural identity and heritage


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CAROLINE MCCARTHYGREETINGS (1996)


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WILLIAM ORPENTHE HOLY WELL (1916)


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WILLIAM ORPENTHE HERITAGE SERIES (1913-1916)

heritage and inheritors


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heritage and inheritors

... to the noble ends of education there must be, within the scsystem and within the school, an adequate inspiration ... inspir

will ... come from hero-stories of the world, and especially of our

people. ... A heroic tale is more essentially a factor in education th

proposition in Euclid. ... A new education system in Ireland has

more than restore a national culture. It has to restore manhoodrace that has been deprived of it. Along with its inspiration it

therefore, bring a certain hardening. It must lead Ireland back to

sagas.P. Pearse from Back to the Sagas originally part of lecture delivered in the Dublin M

House in December 1912. Reproduced in a pamphlet in 1916

For many people it is the artefact or


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For many people it is the artefact ormonument itself that symbolises theidentity of a people. The images such

as those printed on the front cover ofevery school childs homework copyas a daily reminder of the physicalmanifestation of our heritage are part

ofwhat we are the Ardagh Chalice,the Tara Brooch, the Monasterboice

High Cross and the Borrisnoe Collar. Michael D. Higgins, 1993, then Minister of Arts, Culture and the

Gaeltacht


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if its our heritage, who are the we?


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heritage


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heritages


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heritages are sentiments


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heritages are nonsense


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heritages are about people


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people with things


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people with things in spaces

It turns out that the oldest meaning of the Englishand German word for thing concerns an assembly


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and German word for thing concerns an assemblybrought together to discuss disputed matters ofconcern. Hence the focus on the slogan FROMREALPOLITIK TO DINGPOLITIK, a neologism inventefor the show. This major shift is reflected in theaesthetic of the show, in the ways in which the oveone hundred installations and works of art arepresented, and in the general physical and virtualarchitecture. What we are trying to do is comparemodernist with non-modern attitudes to objects. Ineffect we are moving FROM OBJECTS TO THINGS.

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the discursive real

Tue GreFrieze Art Fair
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contemporary curat


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constituting publi

RomanGood Feelings in Good Times - Frieze Art Fa


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diverseThe Dublin Multicultural Resource

www.placingvoic


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multi-vocaNorth Dublin Centre Community Action P

www.placingvoic


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collaborativLourdes DaThe Monto,


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constitutiona

www.nsksta


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AlfreOne million replicated Finnish passports


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social sculptur

FrancWhen faith moves mountains


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consensuFranc

When faith moves mountains


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civil rightsStar Ferry Pier Demonst

Hong Kong SAR, China


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integrity


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transgressioSkran

Hamam


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transgressioWest Bank Barrier

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riskDavid Cerny & the Neost

Monument to Soviet tank crews


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running roomCaro

Joesph Beuys Bog Act


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Old I-195, Providence, Rhodewww.iarchitectures.com/roadscor

(un)stable


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PROJECT

DATE CLIENTAPRIL-MAY 2010 JNBC & TAG 2010

ROADSCORE

WITH FIONA HALLINAN


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PROJECT


ROADSCORE

WITH FIONA HALLINAN


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PROJECT


ROADSCORE

WITH FIONA HALLINAN


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PROJECT

DATE 2008-2009 WWW.PLACINGVOICES.COM

unexpectedJewish History M

Clonbrassil Street,
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PROJECT

DATE CLIENTSEPT 2011 - JAN 2012 URBAN CULTURAL HERITAGES & CREATIVE PR

THE POSTCARD PROJECT

WITH BETSEY BIGGS


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PROJECT

THE CURT TEICH

POSTCARD ARCHIVE


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heritage is something we mak


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heritage is something we maktogether

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