Seem to be spending quite a lot of time in Birmingham these days and loved the new show Queering the Museum there. It opens today and runs till 30 January. This is what Matt Smith says about the show he curated: "There is a need to collect, to collate and to curate. Collections attempt to impose order on the world – to define, catalogue and differentiate. Museums are complicit – deciding what society deems valuable enough to preserve, which objects should explain our lives to future generations.
Now and again it is refreshing to stop trying to impose order and let random chance take over – letting fleeting ideas and day dreams collide. The objects on show are mementoes of these random coincidences, pinned down like butterflies or photographs and preserving their memories. They are curated without care for others’ definitions. They are modern day reliquaries holding fragments of the current, soon to be the past."www.matt.jsmith.com
Whilst visiting the Birmingham Museum you must see another show, Routes to Revolution which features the work of refugee and newly arrived women from diverse cultural backgrounds as part of a partnership project between Craftspace and Community Integration Partnership. Routes to Revolution is a start of a craft social enterprise which will enable the women to develop new craft skills through collaborations with different makers and provide a source of income for them. I was delighted to be asked to be involved in this project.
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