WHOSE MUSEUM
Whose Museum invited the Museum Why group to partake in a dynamic workshop based on their ongoing work with collections. Founded in 2008, Whose Museum is an art collective and loose archival network that began in Vancouver with a mission to challenge traditional notions of what a museum is and can be. In this workshop, participants explored how collections can serve as catalysts for social exchange and artistic collaboration.
At Whose Museum, everything bureaucratic becomes ornamental, discarded items gain new value, and the only straightforward aspect is the donation itself—anyone can donate anything. The workshop allowed the Museum Why group to engage directly with this open collection, which features contributions ranging from the banal to the bizarre: drawings, discarded objects, prosthetic body parts, plants, songs, and ephemera. Through this process, the collection became a springboard for conversation and creative exchange among participants, as they examined the ways in which collections can break away from institutional hierarchies and embrace a more inclusive and participatory approach. Apparatus 22 also contributed with a bubbly collective performance outside the spaces of Whose Museum.
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Whose Museum