Keywords
representation
curatorial
placemaking
socially engaged art
inclusivity
community participation
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Abstract
Taking the International Council of Museums (ICOM) recently revised museum definition by its word, this essay reflects on the history of the museum’s representational role to consider possible ways forward to implement its new emphasis on inclusivity and community participation. Drawing mainly on institutional critique, new museology, and decolonial thought, two curatorial approaches are analysed that could lead the way towards a placemaking approach to museology: artist’s Jose Miguel Gonzalez Casanova’s curatorial project Jardin de Academus [Garden of Academus] (2011) at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo (MUAC) in Mexico City, and the curatorial approach of the first co-directors of the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM-RJ) Pablo Lafuente and Keyna Eleison.
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