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SUMMARY:Recontextualizing the George Brown Collection through creative cer
 amics - Christopher McHugh (University of Sunderland)
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DESCRIPTION:The George Brown Collection of ethnographic objects and some n
 atural history specimens has a contested and complex history. Accumulated 
 in the latter half of the nineteenth century by Brown while he was a Metho
 dist missionary in Oceania\, it has had a number of 'homes'\, exercising t
 he endeavours of a variety of groups and individuals. In 1986\, the majori
 ty of the collection was controversially sold by Newcastle University to t
 he National Museum of Ethnology (NME)\, Osaka\, Japan.\n\nThis presentatio
 n will discuss the author's investigation of the collection's status and r
 ole at its current location in Osaka undertaken during a placement at the 
 NME in 2013. To augment this research\, elements of the collection which\,
  for various reasons\, remain in UK institutions were also traced in order
  to compare and contrast respective approaches to community engagement and
  display. Between 2013 and 2015\, the author made a new body of ceramic ar
 twork which attempted to materialize the convoluted interrelationships bet
 ween the collection and its various communities through time and space.\n\
 nIt will be argued that collaborations between museums and artists have th
 e potential to 'rejuvenate' such dispersed collections by creating new con
 texts where person-object relations can be initiated. Practice-led approac
 hes can re-examine marginalized collections by harnessing the power of obj
 ects – both old and new – to captivate and engage.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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