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Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) →Worlding place entity: E53 Place

Class E53 Place is used here to model geographical areas and locations. Mapping this content type to this class only models place based on the immaterial, mathematical area as defined with a frame of reference and as such it is not appropriate to express the physicality of space which is important. Also this class does not include temporality of places which is critical in a cultural context. A different model could make use of class ‘E27 Site’ which relates to the mathematical notion of E53 Places through property ‘P156 occupies’. That alternative solution is more complex but models place more accurately albeit using more than one class. Another problem with the concept of geometrical place is the fact that boundaries which do not exist in the physical world are needed to define it. This brings up questions around the agency of the people creating these boundaries, naming them and the problem of abstraction in maps which is reductive.

address

Canada

→Worlding travelling exhibition entity: E7 Activity

Class E7 Activity is used here to model an exhibition or a traveling exhibition. The scope note for E7 Activity implies a finite time-span during which the activity is taking place. Participating in an activity in a physical sense indeed has a finite time-span. However, the scope note does not take into account the alternative view that the experience of the event continues to develop by the participants and it becomes individualised after the physical interaction has concluded. In that sense the scope note is limited to the activity as physical presence when the experience of the interaction has multiple dimensions beyond that physicality. The class E7 Activity may not be adequate to capture the multiple dimensions of an exhibition. The scope note of E7 Activity states that the activity needs to be documented therefore potentially excluding undocumented exhibitions including some cases of art by racialized artists or artists of colour, where the type of exhibitions is known but not the exhibitions themselves or artworks by Tino Sehgal whose performance works are purposefully undocumented. The WPC database uses the Gregorian calendar to show dates. The CIDOC CRM does not define the type of calendar or time-representation that should be used to describe when the activity took place. Such limitations are imposed by the underlying software used to implement the WPC database. As such the implementation of time-spans on the WPC database is biased.

Diah Widuretno →Worlding person entity: E21 Person

Class E21 Person is used here to model people. The scope note for this class uses the term ‘historical figures’ which may be considered as problematic especially when references are made to established conventional historical textbooks. Marking a person as a ‘historical figure’ implies an assessment of their importance in history and as such it provides little room to accommodate those who are not written in the historical text books, who are invisible or hidden. Clarification is needed on the use of the term in the scope note to include any person who has existed regardless of their contextual history. The examples included in the scope note are Western focused and the scope note should be revised to make visible historical actors, by referring to the histories of resistance of people of color. The class E21 Person and its superclass E39 Actor imply that after one’s death there is no capacity for agency. The necessity of being alive excludes experiences of dead people being present in rituals from various religions. Class E39 Actor does not include non-human actors. While examples are rare and almost always correspond to documenting species as opposed to individual organisms (for example the performance piece FreePort), this class is not suitable to describe the agency of animals. Additionally, from other perspectives and ontologies an object has as much agency as a person, for example the Benin bronzes being considered as living ancestors and the agency of the sacred altars of K’iche’ Maya.

Name(s)Worlding database field "Name(s)"

P1 is identified by → E41 Appellation: ‘E41 Appellation’ is used to model names of people (or groups) and ‘P1 is identified by’ is used to model the fact that a person is referred to by a name. The idea that the signifier and the signified structure are separate is not universal. In some cultures the process of naming results in both the signifier and the signified. For example, in traditional China, naming equals producing "real-world" things. In such cases this property and field only provides a partial view. At the beginning of the scope note of property ‘P1 is identified by’ it is unclear why the term "real-world" is mentioned when fictional things can also have names. ‘P1 is identified by’ is a shortcut property which misses the identifier assignment event. This means that the agency of the person naming and the location and period of the process of naming are not modelled in this case.

Diah Widuretno (appellation in Indonesian) →Worlding appellation entity: E41 Appellation

Class E41 Appellation is used here to model names of things including places and people. The scope note of E41 Appellation explains that names are not considered as meaningful but as conventions. A name is used by convention even if there is a meaning attached to it. It is possible that names mentioned in the WPC database also hold a meaning which is significant for the thing they refer to as part of its identity. If this is the case, then this class and content type cannot capture that meaning.

Appellation
Diah Widuretno
Language
Indonesian
Group(s)Worlding database field "Group(s)"

P107 has current or former member → E74 Group: ‘E74 Group’ is used to model the fact that a person belongs to a group. This would mean that the person acts in a similar way to other members of the group when considering some unifying relationship. However, a unifying relationship or characteristic may be observed and assigned externally but it is not necessarily a lived experience or observed from inside the group. As such neither this field in the WPC database, nor the class E74 Group are adequate to express the fact that our perception of persons being part of a group may not reflect the persons’ perception. In addition to this, activist groups or cultural activists may be connected in a type of alliance to other groups and activists which although meaningful, does not necessarily happen through an observable unifying relationship.

Sekolah Pagesangan →Worlding institution entity: E74 Group

Class E74 Group is used here to model groups of people who act collectively or in a similar way due to any form of unifying relationship. A unifying relationship or characteristic may be observed and assigned externally but it is not necessarily a lived experience or observed from inside the group. As such our perception of persons being part of a group may not reflect the persons’ perception.

Name of group
Sekolah Pagesangan (appellation in Indonesian) →Worlding appellation entity: E41 Appellation

Class E41 Appellation is used here to model names of things including places and people. The scope note of E41 Appellation explains that names are not considered as meaningful but as conventions. A name is used by convention even if there is a meaning attached to it. It is possible that names mentioned in the WPC database also hold a meaning which is significant for the thing they refer to as part of its identity. If this is the case, then this class and content type cannot capture that meaning.

Appellation
Sekolah Pagesangan
Language
Indonesian
Group type

Alternative space

broader term
Organisations
Definition

Alternative space is a space which functions as a 'fixer' by providing contextual responses and applicable infrastructures to cater the needs of the local art scene

Critique

References:
-Juliastuti, Nuraini. (2012). A Conversation on Horizontal Organization. Afterall: a Journal of art, Context, and Enquiry, 30, 118-125.
-Juliastuti, Nuraini. (2019). Commons People: Managing Music and Culture in Contemporary Yogyakarta. PhD Dissertation. Leiden: Leiden University

Link
https://www.instagram.com/sekolahpagesangan/
Diah Widuretno →Worlding person entity: E21 Person

Class E21 Person is used here to model people. The scope note for this class uses the term ‘historical figures’ which may be considered as problematic especially when references are made to established conventional historical textbooks. Marking a person as a ‘historical figure’ implies an assessment of their importance in history and as such it provides little room to accommodate those who are not written in the historical text books, who are invisible or hidden. Clarification is needed on the use of the term in the scope note to include any person who has existed regardless of their contextual history. The examples included in the scope note are Western focused and the scope note should be revised to make visible historical actors, by referring to the histories of resistance of people of color. The class E21 Person and its superclass E39 Actor imply that after one’s death there is no capacity for agency. The necessity of being alive excludes experiences of dead people being present in rituals from various religions. Class E39 Actor does not include non-human actors. While examples are rare and almost always correspond to documenting species as opposed to individual organisms (for example the performance piece FreePort), this class is not suitable to describe the agency of animals. Additionally, from other perspectives and ontologies an object has as much agency as a person, for example the Benin bronzes being considered as living ancestors and the agency of the sacred altars of K’iche’ Maya.

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