- Title Pages
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the text
- Introduction: conceptualising Curatopia
-
1 The museum as method (revisited)1 -
2 What not to collect? Post-connoisseurial dystopia and the profusion of things -
3 Concerning curatorial practice in ethnological museums: an epistemology of postcolonial debates -
4 Walking the fine line: From Samoa with Love? at the Museum Fünf Kontinente, Munich -
5 Curating across the colonial divides -
6 Thinking and working through difference: remaking the ethnographic museum in the global contemporary -
7 The times of the curator -
8 Baroque modernity, critique and Indigenous epistemologies in museum representations of the Andes and Amazonia -
9 Swings and roundabouts: pluralism and the politics of change in Canada’s national museums -
10 Community engagement, Indigenous heritage and the complex figure of the curator: foe, facilitator, friend or forsaken? -
11 Joining the club: a Tongan ‘akau in New England -
12 ćəsnaɁəm, the City before the City: exhibiting pre-Indigenous belonging in Vancouver -
13 The figure of the kaitiaki: learning from Māori curatorship past and present -
14 Curating the uncommons: taking care of difference in museums -
15 Collecting, curating and exhibiting cross-cultural material histories in a post-settler society -
16 Curating relations between ‘us’ and ‘them’: the changing role of migration museums in Australia1 -
17 Agency and authority: the politics of co-collecting -
18 He alo ā he alo / kanohi ki te kanohi / face-to-face: curatorial bodies, encounters and relations -
19 Curating time -
20 Virtual museums and new directions? - Index
Agency and authority: the politics of co-collecting
Agency and authority: the politics of co-collecting
- Chapter:
- (p.279) 17 Agency and authority: the politics of co-collecting
- Source:
- Curatopia
- Author(s):
Sean Mallon
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
At the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, there are two positions dedicated to curating Pacific Cultures. Since 2002, the curators have been of Pacific Islands descent. One of our ongoing challenges is how to represent Pacific societies and cultures, which are increasingly transnational and indeed global, in our exhibitions and collections. We are conscientiously developing co-curating and co-collecting strategies in our approach to this milieu. However, there is actually a long history of Pacific communities in New Zealand engaging the museum in curating, collecting and exhibiting processes. In this chapter, I share some examples, highlighting how Pacific communities have exercised their agency and authority, influencing their representation in the National Museum. I describe our curatorial responses and examine what was at stake in these interactions, and what tensions and politics were and remain at play.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Co-collecting, Agency, Co-curating
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- Title Pages
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the text
- Introduction: conceptualising Curatopia
-
1 The museum as method (revisited)1 -
2 What not to collect? Post-connoisseurial dystopia and the profusion of things -
3 Concerning curatorial practice in ethnological museums: an epistemology of postcolonial debates -
4 Walking the fine line: From Samoa with Love? at the Museum Fünf Kontinente, Munich -
5 Curating across the colonial divides -
6 Thinking and working through difference: remaking the ethnographic museum in the global contemporary -
7 The times of the curator -
8 Baroque modernity, critique and Indigenous epistemologies in museum representations of the Andes and Amazonia -
9 Swings and roundabouts: pluralism and the politics of change in Canada’s national museums -
10 Community engagement, Indigenous heritage and the complex figure of the curator: foe, facilitator, friend or forsaken? -
11 Joining the club: a Tongan ‘akau in New England -
12 ćəsnaɁəm, the City before the City: exhibiting pre-Indigenous belonging in Vancouver -
13 The figure of the kaitiaki: learning from Māori curatorship past and present -
14 Curating the uncommons: taking care of difference in museums -
15 Collecting, curating and exhibiting cross-cultural material histories in a post-settler society -
16 Curating relations between ‘us’ and ‘them’: the changing role of migration museums in Australia1 -
17 Agency and authority: the politics of co-collecting -
18 He alo ā he alo / kanohi ki te kanohi / face-to-face: curatorial bodies, encounters and relations -
19 Curating time -
20 Virtual museums and new directions? - Index
