http://adaptivereuse.net/2007/06/17/a-bitch-about-rich-kitsch/ contemporary metamorphoses Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:57:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://adaptivereuse.net/2007/06/17/a-bitch-about-rich-kitsch/#comment-27997 Bernice Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:59:09 +0000 http://adaptivereuse.net/2007/03/22/a-bitch-about-rich-kitsch/#comment-27997 Appropriation - I sorta hope it's an in-joke at LV. Or symptomatic of how disjointed our neo-liberal society has become, that the Castlereagh Street boutique shoppers are oblivious to the bag's more than passing resemblance to something from Paddy's Market. But in reference to the NMA & Murcutt's notion of the nationwide scattering of regional museums, it's the manner in which so many of the objects at NMA end up as ethnographic post-it notes of some imagined Aussie past which I find worrying. I thought your point about regional & district museums struggling with the fall-off in volunteers interesting. More affluent retirees aren't going to sit in draughty dusty public buildings, trying to warm themselves with a single bar radiator & rattling a goll coin donation tin at the two families & lost Telstra techie who wander in? & the notion that the local museum is well, rather daggy, unable to manage the bright lights, AV display & sexy signage of the NAMs & War Memorials of the world, so therefore why bother? No funding, no training, low levels of engagement with bodies such as CAN or Museums Australia, little support from local government. I'm often amazed that any of them survive at all. Appropriation – I sorta hope it’s an in-joke at LV. Or symptomatic of how disjointed our neo-liberal society has become, that the Castlereagh Street boutique shoppers are oblivious to the bag’s more than passing resemblance to something from Paddy’s Market.
But in reference to the NMA & Murcutt’s notion of the nationwide scattering of regional museums, it’s the manner in which so many of the objects at NMA end up as ethnographic post-it notes of some imagined Aussie past which I find worrying. I thought your point about regional & district museums struggling with the fall-off in volunteers interesting. More affluent retirees aren’t going to sit in draughty dusty public buildings, trying to warm themselves with a single bar radiator & rattling a goll coin donation tin at the two families & lost Telstra techie who wander in? & the notion that the local museum is well, rather daggy, unable to manage the bright lights, AV display & sexy signage of the NAMs & War Memorials of the world, so therefore why bother?
No funding, no training, low levels of engagement with bodies such as CAN or Museums Australia, little support from local government. I’m often amazed that any of them survive at all.

]]> http://adaptivereuse.net/2007/06/17/a-bitch-about-rich-kitsch/#comment-27821 Skanky Jane Sun, 12 Aug 2007 08:47:58 +0000 http://adaptivereuse.net/2007/03/22/a-bitch-about-rich-kitsch/#comment-27821 He did analyse this situation wrongly- but he name some of the processes involved. He did analyse this situation wrongly- but he name some of the processes involved.

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