Anna Cutler conversation with Victoria Walsh - 3 views
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Sheona White on 19 May 10This recording is part of: Education Practice at Tate 1970-present Programme A Monday 23 February - Friday 27 February 2009 In considering how museums have significantly reconfigured their relationships with audiences over the last decade and given how Learning as a department carries a notable responsibility in developing audiences, this series of interviews with present and past members of Tate staff aims to create an understanding and account of how Education practice within Tate has historically evolved from information and explanation to interpretation, engagement to participation, informal knowledge to professional research. Questions to be considered in this programme in relation to Education practice are: * Since its inception what are the historical legacies of the original Education Department within the operation of Tate and more recently Tate Britain? * Where has Education been historically positioned and now? * What kind of agency does Education hold within the production and reproduction of knowledge within Tate? * What is its relationship to a research practice? * How does it configure its publics?
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Josephine Touma on 01 Jun 10(It's a long interview, so I'm listening to it in the background whilst doing other things, which might mean I'm missing things...) But two things that stand out so far: she champions the position that quality and accessibility are not mutually exclusive; and she speaks of 'publics' (much as we speak of 'audiences', plural). Now, these might seem like self-evident and perhaps somewhat lofty aims, but what does it really mean? How do we embed these values/ideals in our programs? I think these are amongst our biggest challenges...
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Sheona White on 03 Jun 10the interview is way too long but there are some good bits. She doesn't really offer any instruction about quality and accessibility not being mutually exclusive but just champions the cause. In fact there's a lot of cause championing and she says she has a fabulous team who help her out and do everything. She seems to be embedding scholarship in their discipline which seems like a good thing to me.