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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation aims to develop a critical art theory and practice-based approach to social innovation, which takes worlding as its central methodology. It is a collaborative research project and transnational platform, conceived by the Transnational and Transcultural Arts and Culture Exchange (TrACE) network, and funded by a Social Innovation Grant from the Trans-Atlantic Platform for the Social Sciences and Humanities.
Change public narratives about our globally interconnected yet conflicted world through art, exhibitions, conferences and (academic) writing about art and its cultural, historical and socio-political realities.
Tell new stories from multiple regional perspectives about our transnational and trans-cultural entangled presents, and our shared and sometimes difficult pasts, which intends to imagine new ways of living together in the future.
Ultimately, by conducting research on and for institutions of public culture, this project will be an agent of social innovation that impacts how the global is theorised. Making concrete recommendations for the education and museum sectors, it will contribute to the creation of a more resilient society, with further elastic models of social cohesion through changes in public discourse.
Through a series of academies, assemblies and gatherings, the project seeks to reimagine cultural and educational institutions beyond modern Western and colonial frameworks. It intends to reposition them as agents of social and political change that increase our understanding of our global world's complexities. These events are designed to enable transatlantic, multi-sectoral, and public knowledge, shared between those working in and on different geocultural contexts.
Worlding Public Cultures will conclude in:
TrACE Consortium (Transnational Arts and Culture Exchange) members:
