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Back to reality Our exhibition has been moved to the museum, for grading and for an external moderator to engage with what we presented. It's been REAL Anthropology. Till next time

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Told you it was YOLO, Lit lit lit lit lit, Mrs Came, smoking a hookah. She's the real OG

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The interaction with our board

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24 May 2018 OH MY WORD, I feel like Rafiki the money in the the movie The Lion King, when he says 'it is time'. Well it certainly is time for the launch of our exhibition, it is time to call on those who want to recreate, it is time for my group to finally be at a happy and probably less successful place. Wow want an experience, from being apart of a screening about perspectives, and another screening where I was served wine talking about death (what a why to lighten the morbity) being indulged with popcorn and hot chocolate to being YOLO, 'You Only Live Once' at the Wits Shabeen it was an absolute amazing day.

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All about the process This is the group and I preparing for the exhibition launch 24 April 2018. It's only thing having an idea but it's just something else seeing that idea come to fruition. We about to wrap this thing uuuuupppppppp

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Look at what Anthropology makes us do Since we are re-imaging the museum we thought it would an amazing idea to have rubble, and construction danger tape, construction mesh to replicate the idea of reestablish, rebuilding so this is us going around campus looking for 'gold minds' of rubble to use for our exhibition S/O to the Geography department and Sine one of our group members for hooking up with the white board, seeing that we are having an inactive board or re-imaging and our images will have magnets at the back we needed a magnet white board to allow for that movement of pictures.

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JAG we seem to love you 18/05/18 We back at JAG, getting some more interviews, some more perspective from the vendors and people outside JAG but more so in Joubert Park. What we could agree upon that although art exists and lives in JAG, essentially outside the museum is art and these vendors are establish their own interpretation of art. The art that they are creating should also be presented in the museum as it is just as important as the accreditation that is given to artists inside the museum.

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Look at what Anthropology makes us do Since we are re-imaging the museum we thought it would an amazing idea to have rubble, and construction danger tape, construction mesh to replicate the idea of reestablish, rebuilding so this is us going around campus looking for 'gold minds' of rubble to use for our exhibition S/O to the Geography department and Sine one of our group members for hooking up with the white board, seeing that we are having an inactive board or re-imaging and our images will have magnets at the back we needed a magnet white board to allow for that movement of pictures.

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An epiphany So my group members decided let's disrupt a space in the Anthropology foyer and that's just what we did. We are to house the exhibition in this space and which also lended to the notion of inclusion and exclusion which is very much a prominent issue at JAG We worked so hard today, shucks Occar Nomination goes toooo... GROUP 5

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Look at what Anthropology makes us do Since we are re-imaging the museum we thought it would an amazing idea to have rubble, and construction danger tape, construction mesh to replicate the idea of reestablish, rebuilding so this is us going around campus looking for 'gold minds' of rubble to use for our exhibition S/O to the Geography department and Sine one of our group members for hooking up with the white board, seeing that we are having an inactive board or re-imaging and our images will have magnets at the back we needed a magnet white board to allow for that movement of pictures.

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JAG we meet again

11/05/18

For our interactive idea and re-imagining the museum we as a group decided be be straight down ethnographers, and head straight the field.

We had the opportunity of speaking to Mr Gule, whom we just wanted to gain an understanding of the positionality of JAG and if there are future plans to transform or reevaluate JAG. Honestly this meeting was not helpful because Mr Gule didn’t really direct up I’m the direction of the questions we have proposed to him. We sat in his office that had direct sunlight, we were obviously hot and extremely exhausted after that meeting but we put on a brave face, and a very excited face to go out into the field and gain perspective of others.

Look at us, what we did was of course practice safety because a group of 8 females we need to ensure that our lives will not be at risk any danger. We remained in a group setting and asked vendor around and outside the museum if they are aware of the the building JAG?

Though voice recording we got their responses, which some were hostile, some were extremely friendly like the lady preparing roasted peanuts. She was willing and very much open to the group engaging in conversation with her. We ventured further up the walk way and what’s I saw is that regardless of what people are doing or selling they just want to make an honest living to support their family. Here we are disrupting their day. We then also ensured that we had permission forms for those individuals to sign to ensure that the purpose of this was solely for academic purposes. Some of the vendors were really sceptical of this because of the impression these vendors have of us that we could report or have their stall taken away but we reassured these amazing people that we are just students.

WHAT AN EXPERIENCE

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Inspire me; Inspired me

In presenting this to George in our group meeting on the 10 May 2018, and my idea was directed toward looking at the work of Mark Dion and Fred Wilson.

Furthermore, the late Albert C. Barnes, as he is legendary for his holdings of Renoirs, Cézannes, and Matisses as he has a wild way he displayed his collections in his suburban Philadelphia mansion. Barnes, one of the 20th century’s most prominent American connoisseurs of art and antiques, famously ignored traditional organizing principles—like medium, period, and style—in favour of highly formal yet unlikely juxtapositions. Which this would be evident in my representation of these real objects of desire as not in any particular order or form.

Dion and Wilson’s work was largely influenced by Barnes and of that influence arose their exhibition of ‘The Order of Things’. Dion, who has long been interested in how we control our surroundings through classification and order, speaks to Barnes’s obsession with presentation, not to mention symmetry, with a wall of carefully arranged butterfly nets, shovels, picks, hooks, guns, filing cabinets, and other tools of the naturalist. Fred Wilson, who is known for his trenchant, often wry, critiques of museums, created a series of small rooms with furniture transplanted from the offices and storage room of Barnes’s Merion location and installed as it had been there. The premise of their exhibition was to get visitors thinking about the importance of display and about how much one individual’s vision, or system, can affect the way we perceive things. It’s an illuminating mental exercise to ponder: what if Dr. Albert C. Barnes, the pharmaceutical tycoon and physician who assembled an unmatched collection of Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings in Philadelphia, was actually an installation artist before his time? This is the central conceit that inspired The Order of Things. It also includes a re-creation (with original objects) of the “Dutch Room” from the original Barnes site in Lower Merion as it looked from its inception, in 1925, until it was dismantled to make way for an ADA-mandated elevator in the 1990s.

The paintings that Barnes collected seem quite traditional today, though they were cutting edge at the time. Paired with his array of decorative arts and household objects and arranged in symmetrical tableaux just so, the overall effect is quaint. So, it is counterintuitive, but actually quite brilliant, to reconsider Barnes’s artistic activities as a form of art in their own right. He didn’t paint or sculpt, fabricate brass andirons, build furniture, or throw pots by hand; he arranged things he loved according to a passionately specific vision, juxtaposing objects and works of art because they simply ‘worked’, the way we all do at home, and not according to the genre-driven, chronological system of display that has guided most art museums since their inception. Pennsylvania Dutch chests are adorned with American pottery or pewter objects, above which two nearly identical decorative door hinges are suspended on either side of a Cezanne portrait. The Barnes Foundation’s arrangements of art and objects invites visitors to take part in an immersive experience that only works in person, hovering somewhere between the hands-off etiquette of touring a museum and the tantalizing thrill of poking around someone’s house when they aren’t there. Barnes’s creation is not just the organization of his things, but a ritualized experience of viewing them together in a specific place.

The practice of this exhibition was for Dion to look “The Incomplete Naturalist” which celebrates in his installation, was to decouple the content of the taxonomy of art history from the objects he arranged, but to harness its impulse to impose structure, so that his assemblages would elicit a new way of viewing. Wilson’s practices of presenting Barnes were to “Trace,” which is a light-hearted response to the ‘Barnes Logic’ of object assemblage, using the office furniture and ephemera from the original site in Lower Merion to create mini assemblages, along with copies of Barnes’s paintings mounted on the walls just behind the objects. Wilson may be drawing an analogy here to the provocative way in which Barnes placed his paintings alongside “everyday things” like door hinges, plates, and bowls, taking this high/low juxtaposition a step further by adding new everyday things, like staplers and umbrellas

The Order of Things is a smartly conceived step in a very exciting direction for the Barnes Foundation. Issues of social class, accessibility, cultural relevance, and the educational ‘usefulness’ of art are all pressing concerns for museums, and it’s fascinating that an institution whose collection is quite literally a thing of the past should program such a creative response to it

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Move it, change it, recreate it Soooooo we had our idea on re-establishing the museum, this is in fact our participation and interactive idea. Each group members is to take their individual idea and represent it through photographs. This would contribute to the whole of the group but still have our individual concepts still prevalent. George seemed to have been very much interested and intrigued by our idea and how this idea is so transformative

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Meeting with George Mahashe Eish, you know this course is driving me a bit crazy. We are presenting our individual concepts to George Where are as a group What idea do you have as a group and how we want to present that.. I mean this meeting went really well and I secretly think we are definitely George's favorite 😋

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More of the content of our meetings We were discussing ideas and thoughts. We were sharing our individual concepts and how to incorporate that as one conclusive idea to George Mahashe

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This is the content of what transpired in our meeting. Jessica Pokubye has been nominated as our group leader and she has made summaries of each of our meetings and sends this to our Whatsapp group chat. Our idea is finalized "The re-establishment of Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), that invites participation and comments from the audience"

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Reunited and it feels so good

Hey now Hey now Hey now Dont dream it’s over

As we are approaching exam season and preparing for subjects, about a week again George mentions that our exam will be a group exam and I couldn’t be happier.

So this these are my homies, we back at it again. The dynamic of our group is so varied and with that our perspectives are so different too. We were chatting about ideas, about an approach to the exam, what is the way forward, how do we want to represent our exhibition

WhatsApp is our primary source of communication, but I love meeting up with these ladies, chatting and just really being invested in what they have to say.