What is it about museums that make them so foreign to us.
travel in space to travel in time. chain of being time machines.
An encapsulated sector where things can be parcelled off in order to represent a compartmentalized reality; a bounded off space in which we can OBSERVE with a detached sense of ourselves.
But in our current state where identities and genres are stuffed down our throats at every other turn, how do we anymore see ourselves as detached, independent organisms when we are so enthralled and exhilarated by every beep flash and digital delineation that comes our way.
History isn't stagnant and compartmentalized. the world is hybridized and although there are some aspects of cultural quarantines (spiritual copyrights) we exist in a state of the hyperreal where everything is nothing and everything is something. Our contextualizations of these notions (in terms of museums) should reflect these fractures. pointing to our state of instability in a world where profit makes the difference; 'originality' speaks to conformity in all sense of these definitions.
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