The punningly titled mining the museum, an intervention at the maryland historical society, provided fred wilson with his first onsite opportunity to show how museums reinforce racist beliefs. Post a comment filed under baltimore history, baltimore photographs, baltimore whipping post, damon talbot, fred wilson, historic photographs, maryland historical society, maryland history, maryland whipping post, mining the museum. Fred wilson s mining the museum has turned out to be a path not taken. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools.
Featured videomaterial published in the book opening museums by andreas zingerle and linda kronman. He received a bfa from purchase college, state university of new york. Fred wilson born 1954 in the bronx, new york is an american artist and describes himself as of african, native american, european and amerindian descent. Beautiful trouble exists to make nonviolent revolution irresistible by providing an evergrowing suite of strategic tools and trainings that inspire movements for a more just, healthy, and equitable world. An artist that cannot be ignored when talking about issues surrounding the validity of museum displays is fred wilson and particularly his momentous undertaking mining the museum. Wilson went through the museum s storage and selected objects for his mining the museum installation that highlighted the underrepresented contributions of. An installation by fred wilson at the maryland historical society in collaboration with the contemporary. Wilson selects pieces from the maryland historical society and reframes them to elicit fuller meanings.
Mining the museum, an installation by fred wilson, provided an opportunity to reflect on these questions. Pdf museums in the colonial horizon of modernity fred. He is an outsider invited inside and given the keys to all the closets, trunks, and other private places that traditionally have been strictly offlimits to the uninitiated. Museums in the colonial horizon of modernity fred wilson s mining the museum 1992 article pdf available may 2018 with 182 reads how we measure reads. Fred wilson is the ultimate outsider, but with a twist.