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Street as Museum as Method: Some Thoughts on Museum Inclusivity

By King-chung Siu.

Published by The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum

The paper will use the Community Museum Project (CMP, www.hkcmp.org), a Hong Kong-based curatorial collective (with which the author is affiliated), as a case study in the possible application of the museum methodology to the visual representation of community values and practices; she explores how different areas of knowledge and social resources can be “curated” to nurture synergised social relations. CMP, though operates without a permanent space, shares with institutional museums in the practice of creating representations of histories and objects, the difference being the focus on the undocumented and under-represented vernacular culture (with emphasis on public, material and visual cultures) and indigenous creativity. The city, and particularly the street, is seen as a site of interwoven knowledge and resources. They are given visual forms by means of exhibitions, tours or other public programmes.

International Journal of the Inclusive Museum, Volume 1, Issue 3, pp.57-64. Article: Print (Spiral Bound). Article: Electronic (PDF File; 2.345MB).

King-chung Siu

Assistant Professor, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China