Hi

I am writing my thesis about artists' interventions into museum
collections and artists dealing with museum issues (post-colonial
and otherwise) through their work. It
is a very rich topic and there have been many such interventions,
including
Fred Wilson's "Mining the Museum" 1992 exhibition at the Maryland
Historical Society. If you haven't
already found
it, Lisa Corrin's catalogue for this exhibition is very eloquent on this
topic and provides examples of other artists working in this direction.
Other artists to look at include:
Joseph Kosuth, Christian Boltanski, Irene Whittome, and Catherine Widgery
(whose exhibition last year at the Royal Ontario Museum "Lost Sense" I am
looking at in particular). An article by Rebecca Duclos in the Spring 1999
edition of MUSE "Unlocking the Cabinet: Aesthetic Encounters with Museum
Collections" is one recent source examining this topic.

If anyone has any further information on this topic, I would very
interested in hearing from you.

Kate Wolforth
Museum Studies, University of Toronto
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  On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Roxanne Lambie wrote:

> Hi
>
> I overheard a conversation today about an american 'museum interventionist'
> and I would like to find out more about him and his work. He is in his mid-thirties, very handsome! and creates art by curating museum exhibitions that pose
> post colonial questions to the audience. Does anyone know who this may be?
>
> an example of his work: 19th C painting exhibition - grouped from the collection
> on the basis of the (white) family pictured with one black child. Sound is
> activated by visitor movement which is a voice of a Harlem child asking 'Are you
> my mother?' or something similar...(come to think of it, it must have been a
> 20th C painting exhibition.....
>
> Please let me know who this person is and whther I may point my browser to further information.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Roxanne
>
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