responsible for leading a discussion exploring the relationship between that week’s topic and specific

artists, artworks, exhibits or other images of your choosing. consider this a chance to explore the weekly
topics in relation to image-based practices, including but not limited to those of artists and curators.
15-20 minutes in length.
• At a minimum, one (1) exhibit, work of art or artist.
• A discussion of WHY this exhibit/artist/work of art relates to the reading(s) and that week’s topic

This weeks topics,

Many contemporary artists critique or parody museums and collecting practices in their installation and
conceptual works. This week we will look at the work of artists who comment directly upon the fields of
anthropology and art history in their own critical interpretations of the act of collecting and the role of the
museum as a culturally powerful institution.
•Lisa G Corrin, “Mining the Museum: Artists Look at Museums, Museums Look at Themselves,” in Lisa
G. Corrin, ed., in Mining the Museum: An Installation by Fred Wilson, p. 1-22. The New Press: New
York, 1994.
•Eileen Hooper-Greenhill, “Speaking for Herself? Hinemihi and her discourses,” in Eileen Hooper-
Greenhill, Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 2000.
Pp. 49-75