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The Point Of Collection
Tate/Uclan Film Project - Making Histories Visible
Collaborative project led by Professor Lubaina Himid.
The Point of Collection is the second dvd and publication research resource document this time exploring the entire national collection at Tate including accessing works in the Tate store which are not available to view on the Tate web site.
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Dear Mrs Walker
In Point Of Collection apart from talking to many different people in perhaps a rather unscientific but friendly and therefore more revealing way, looking at web sites, and of course roaming the galleries, we read quite a mixture of texts, as you can imagine. It was the combination of these things and our previous discoveries that encouraged discussions and began to prompt us into action. Susan M Pearce in ‘On Collecting’ talks about using collections to impress private collectors, but contemporary public collections compete for acquisitions with wealthy business people so it’s interesting to make comparisons. When she illustrates that the acquisition of a new object can suddenly force the re-evaluation of objects already owned, I begin to imagine what the addition of a Fred Wilson work would do to the collection at Tate.
DVD + Text Brochure Publication 2007
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Open Sesame
OPEN SESAME: Making Histories Visible
During the past twenty five years Tate has shown the work of more African/Caribbean, African, and African/American artists than any other museum or gallery in Britain. Some of these artists have shown at all four Tate sites. One or two have been Tate artists in residence, several have given illustrated talks and been invited to contribute papers to conferences, some have been short listed for the Turner prize, two have won it, some of them are dead.
Most of the people who visit the four Tate galleries are either, artists, art lovers, art collectors, interested in art, or simply creative and artistic people. Audiences and visitors come from all over the world and all over the country and from the local population. If you ask them what they are interested in they say they like buildings, music, paintings, videos, photographs, interior decoration, films, books, sculpture, furniture, jewellery, gardens and clothes. They say they can find ideas for and references to all these in the galleries most of the time when they visit. Some of them say that’s why they visit.The work in the vast collection is owned by the British people. Three of the galleries are free to enter but in all four Tates some of the exhibitions can only be seen if you pay an entrance fee. Most of the displays in which these artists work has been displayed have been free. What is the political difference between the exhibition and the display and does it matter?
Launched in 2005 reveals black artists experiences of the Tate galleries: Tate Britain , Modern, Liverpool and St Ives from both artist and audience points of view. The research included visits to Tate gallery archives, meetings with education officers and other relevant people and several on-going meetings and interviews with black artists. We filmed on location at all four Tate galleries as well as on visits to various artist's studios.
Open Sesame was the first in a series of publication research resource documents in which Tate and Uclan in collaboration have sought to develop their work around the impact of past, current and possible future exhibitions, displays, competitions and collecting strategies initiated by Tate in relation to artists of African, Asian and Caribbean descent.
We are working on the idea that an answer to increasing the development of a diverse audience lies in an engagement with African/Caribbean artists about their experience of Tate.(Short Clip)
DVD + Booklet Publication 2005
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