Video Installation…

During surf in Hakka Village,we found something interesting so we just collect them (as borrow,after finishing our work returned all back).

For video installation we need to make a great connection between our things,so I made a video from our photos that we took and also put some music on it which are related to our place and time and for adding more sense connectivity, I burnt a Incense Stick which also use for chines praying.

We put all of them in a good way and when someone came to the room,all the materials involved all them five sense so they could imagine that they are in part of Hakka Village.

This is our photos and our installation :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our lecturer took video from it and you can watch it from link bellow :

Circuit Of Culture ( Mantin )…

 

Our project was to going to Mantin as a circuit to search about them culture.So we went to a specific and historical place named by kampong Hakka in mantin. This Hakka Village is one kind of Chinese living culture. A Hakka walled village is a large multi-family communal living structure that is designed to be easily defensible. This building style is unique to the Hakka people found in southern China (Hakka is “Kè-jiā” 客家 in Mandarin Chinese). Walled villages are typically designed for defensive purposes and consist of one entrance and no windows at the ground level,but in this case have some different than the origin.

  Hakka village

  Hakka walled village

 

Actually,Mantin is a town in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. It is under administration of Nilai District. It lies along the main road connecting Kajang and Seremban.

This place has two names, Setul and Mantin. Setul is the name of certain plant called ‘Setul’. Setul was the town with a police station. It is not at the present town of Mantin but at the 8th mile Seremban .The town of Setul was transferred to Mantin. The present name of Mantin is well known for its tin mine owned by a Chinese towkay (prominent Chinese businessman), Kong Sang. The Europeans called the place ‘Mine Tin’ while the Malays called it ‘Mantin’ for at this place tin (lombong timah) was plentiful. The residents of the place could not say ‘Mine Tin’ correctly and said Mantin instead.

Until 1903, the geographical location of Mantin in a valley has made it inaccessible to mainstream transportation. A railroad from Kuala Lumpur to Seremban was completed in 1903.The railroad passes through Batang Benar town, thus providing an access point at the western side of the town. At that time, British miners brought in large numbers of dredgers into Mantin, bringing about an economic boom. A Sikh temple and a Catholic church (St. Aloysius Catholic Church) was built around the turn of the century. (wikipedia)

In this village that has more than 100 years oldness,lots of problems happened which caused this place became empty and demolition.This video explain everything.

 

 

We went there and took photo,spoke with old people whom stile live there and also borrowed somethings for our presentation.

 

Curatorial Issue….

 

    Curation may refer to:

• Content curation, collecting and sorting content

• Digital curation, the preservation and maintenance of digital assets

• The work performed by a curator

• Archiving, historical record keeping

• Evidence management, indexing and cataloguing of evidence

• Cultural heritage management, conservation of cultural sites and resources

The history of curation returns to techniques which used by Marcel Duchamp in 1938 ,Surrealism International Exhibition in Paris .These techniques were simple and clever tricks for immediate impact, intense and strange that Duchamp needed them to exhibit Surrealists Artwork in outside of the museum space and common traditional academic system.

Curator

A curator (from Latin: curare meaning “take care”) is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution (e.g., gallery, museum, library or archive) is a content specialist responsible for an institution’s collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material. The object of a traditional curator’s concern necessarily involves tangible objects of some sort, whether it be artwork, collectibles, historic items or scientific collections. More recently, new kinds of curators are emerging ; curators of digital data objects and biocurators.

Gallery Curator And Artwork

Artists who decide to organize an exhibition must first submit a curatorial proposal to a gallery. Your curatorial proposal will outline the concept of the exhibition, and all information regarding it. The concept should be unique and offer a new perspective on a subject. This is an opportunity to collaborate with other artists, and requires you to know your audience and the gallery.

Play as a Curator…

Actually we as an artist need to know how to show our works in better and special view or position according to our place and propose .So in this subject we decided to have some experience around this.

 

Activity : Space visit in LEG library ;

Proforma :

Date : July 7, 2014

Time : 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM

location : LEG library

And this is it’s plan :

Suggestions :

This space located in our library but it separated by door and windows.It is totally empty and hasn’t good and enough walls to put artwork,Also it hasn’t too much light from outside,So I suggest to put some temporary walls and special light for each position.It’ll help us to have more separate spaces and will add emotion to the place.We can also cover windows to use them as wall and also we can manage light better.

Museum , Gallery , Heritage…

Museum

A museum is a building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.

A museum is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary.Most large museums are located in major cities throughout the world and more local ones exist in smaller cities, towns and even the countryside.

The Louvre Museum in Paris (France), one of the largest and most famous museums in the world

    Mummy Louvre

Louvre lion gate

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Uffizi Gallery, the most visited museum in Italy and one of the most important in the world. View toward the Palazzo Vecchio, in Florence

The Indian Museum in Kolkata, India is the oldest and the largest museum in India

National Museum of Iran entrance, Tehran, Iran, inspired by Persian Sassanid architecture

The State Historical Museum in Moscow

The Orthodox Church, later an Ottoman mosque, and now a museum, Hagia Sophia was once the pride of the Byzantine Empire. Historically located in Constantinople, is now modern day Istanbul, Turkey

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Visual storage at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England

Museums have varying aims, ranging from serving researchers and specialists to serving the general public. The continuing acceleration in the digitization of information, combined with the increasing capacity of digital information storage, is causing the traditional model of museums (i.e. as static “collections of collections” of three-dimensional specimens and artefacts) to expand to include virtual exhibits and high-resolution images of their collections for perusal, study, and exploration from any place with Internet.

The city with the largest number of museums is Mexico City with over 128 museums. According to The World Museum Community, there are more than 55,000 museums in 202 countries.

The purpose of modern museums is to collect, preserve, interpret, and display items of cultural, artistic, or scientific significance for the education of the public. The purpose can also depend on one’s point of view.Museum purposes vary from institution to institution. Some favour education over conservation, or vice versa.

Early museums began as the private collections of wealthy individuals, families or institutions of art and rare or curious natural objects and artifacts. These were often displayed in so-called wonder rooms or cabinets of curiosities.

Various positions within the museum carry out the policies established by the Board and the Director. These positions include but are not limited to curators, collections managers/registrars, public programmers/educators, exhibition designers, and building operators. These positions and all other employees should work together toward the museum’s institutional goal.

•  Curator – research the collection and most often write the text labels for exhibitions. In larger institutions, there may be a curator assigned to each collection of objects the museum holds. Ex: Curator of Modern Art, Curator of Natural History, Curator of Furniture, etc.

•  Collections Management/Registrar – responsible for the care and maintenance of all objects in the museum’s collection, tracks movement of objects in and out of the museum on loan or on exhibition, records information about objects in databases-such as an object’s provenance. Registrars oversee the accessioning process, which formally accepts objects into the museum’s collection with an accession number and detailed record. Collections Managers and Registrars uphold the Collections Policy, which guides what is and is not accepted into the museum collection.

•  Public Programmer/Educator – creates programs for the public and designs interactives for exhibitions. This position also oversees volunteers and docents at the museum. Depending on the institution, educators may also research the collections and write text for exhibitions. Educators work with the Board, Director, and Curator to ensure that the needs of the public are met as laid out in the institution’s mission statement.

•  Exhibition Designer – designs and installs the exhibition under the supervision of the curator and collections manager. They have the vital role of creating exhibition space that is navigable by the visitor.

•  Building Operators – oversee security and maintenance of the museum. In larger museums, building operators will work with Collections Managers to maintain appropriate levels of temperature and humidity which can affect the stability of the objects.

 

The open-air museum of King Oscar II at Bygdøy near Oslo in the museum guide of 1888

Types of museums vary, from large institutions, covering many of the categories below, to very small institutions focusing on a specific subject, location, or a notable person. Categories include: fine arts, applied arts, craft, archaeology, anthropology and ethnology, biography, history, cultural history, science, technology, children’s museums, natural history, botanical and zoological gardens. Within these categories many museums specialize further, e.g. museums of modern art, folk art, local history, military history, aviation history, philately, agriculture or geology. Another type of museum is an encyclopedic museum. Commonly referred to as a universal museum, encyclopedic museums have collections representative of the world and typically include art, science, history, and cultural history. The type and size of a museum is reflected in its collection. A museum normally houses a core collection of important selected objects in its field.

Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago

Antique cuckoo clocks in the interior of Cuckooland Museum.

Zoos are considered “living museums”

 

 

Gallery

Gallery may refer to:

•  An art museum (art gallery)

•  A retail art shop (also often known as an art gallery)

•  An exhibition room in a museum

•  Long gallery, an element in architecture: a long hallway or long, narrow room, frequently decorated with sculptures and frescoes.

 

Gallery of Modern Art

Heritage

A heritage site is a location designated by the governing body of a township, county, province, state or country as important to the cultural heritage of a community. The term usually refers to any non-moveable object with a specific location such as any preserved landscape containing important artefacts such as historic gardens, nature preserves, or archeological sites. The whole ensemble may be preserved separately as a historic site, landmark or national monument, but it may include multiple sites under various protection schemes grouped together such as fortifications or buildings situated along special roadways. Heritage sites are generally protected by the local town’s protection agency but, for objects that are nationally or internationally protected, sometimes more than one agency is involved in their protection.

China Wall

Turkey Nemrut Dagi world heritage site tumulus and statues

The Acropolis of Athens

Gateway Persepolis

All different senses, including:

•  Natural heritage, an inheritance of fauna and flora, geology, landscape and landforms, and other natural resources

•  Cultural heritage, the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society: man-made heritage

•  Food heritage

•  Industrial heritage, monuments from industrial culture

•  Virtual Heritage, an ICT work dealing with cultural heritage

•  Inheritance of physical goods after the death of an individual; of the physical or non-physical things inherited

•  Heredity, biological inheritance of physical characteristics

•  Birthright, something inherited due to the place, time, or circumstances of someone’s birth

 

World Heritage Site

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a place (such as a forest, mountain, lake, island, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that is listed by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as of special cultural or physical significance.The list is maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 states’ parties which are elected by their General Assembly.

        UNESCO World Heritage Logo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As of 2014, 1007 sites are listed: 779 cultural, 197 natural, and 31 mixed properties, in 161 states parties.By sites ranked by country, Italy is home to the greatest number of World Heritage Sites with 50 sites, followed by China (47), Spain (44), Germany (39) and France (39). UNESCO references each World Heritage Site with an identification number; but new inscriptions often include previous sites now listed as part of larger descriptions. As a result, the identification numbers exceed 1,200 even though there are fewer on the list.

While each World Heritage Site remains part of the legal territory of the state wherein the site is located, UNESCO considers it in the interest of the international community to preserve each site.

 

Territorial division

Note: this overview lists only countries with ten or more World Heritage Sites.

•  Brown: nations with 40 or more heritage sites

•  Light brown: nations with 30 to 39 heritage sites

•  Orange: nations with 20 to 29 heritage sites

•  Blue: nations with 15 to 19 heritage sites

•  Green: nations with 10 to 14 heritage sites