Tia-Simone Gardner: Dark and Perfect Memories →Worlding exhibition entity: E7 Activity
Class E7 Activity is used here to model an exhibition or a travelling 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.
Tia-Simone Gardner: Dark and Perfect Memories (appellation in English) →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.
DatesWorlding database field "Dates"
P4 has time-span → E52 Time-Span: Class E52 Time-Span is used to model a period of time and property P4 has time-span indicates that an exhibition took place during this period of time. This period of time is considered with time boundaries. This excludes perspectives where events and especially exhibitions are omnipresent and their impact and interaction with audiences continues beyond the physical presence. This omnipresence may be possible to model using property ‘P15 was influenced’ but although the WPC database implements this construct to indicate influence of exhibitions to educational courses or other exhibitions, this is not done within a context of omnipresent time.
LocationWorlding database field "Location"
P7 took place at → E53 Place: Class ‘E53 Place‘ is used to model a geographical place. Property ‘P7 took place at’ is used to model the fact that an educational course or exhibition took place at a location. ‘P7 took place at’ cannot convey the individual character that the course or exhibition may have because of the physical location that it is held. As such this property only describes the location in terms of plotting it on a map - which itself is a colonial practice. The property can also be used for online activities which take place simultaneously to the geographical places of all participants, however, this does not convey the significantly different type of interaction or the technological barriers for inclusion when one, for example, needs to be “present” at online meetings.
401 Richmond St. W Suite 120 Toronto ON M5V3A8 Canada →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.
401 Richmond St. W
Suite 120
Toronto ON M5V3A8
Canada
43.647824951074, -79.3945628
Contributor(s)Worlding database field "Contributor(s)"
P11 had participant → E39 Actor: Class E39 Actor is used to model contributors to the exhibition, i.e. either persons (E21 Person) or groups (E74 Group). Presence of the contributors at the exhibition is implied by this property, however this privileges presence in a physical sense of interaction. This excludes other forms of presence which may be impacting the exhibition. For example, the necessity of being alive excludes experiences where dead people are considered present at events. Other senses of presence can be modelled perhaps using property ‘P15 was influenced’ but the WPC database does not implement this construct. Property ‘P11 had participant’ does not imply any causal relationship between the contributor and the exhibition. As such it does not express accountability of contributors. More specific properties such as ‘P14 carried out by’ can be used to express accountability but this is currently not implemented in the WPC database as it is not always possible to know who of the contributors had a causal effect to the exhibition.
Tia-Simone Gardner: Dark and Perfect Memories →Worlding publication entity: E73 Information Object
Class E73 Information Object is used here to model a publication such as a book that is the subject of discussion during an education course or contains information about an exhibition. The scope note of E73 Information Object requires objectively recognizable items and does not allow for intertextual openness, for example fluxus spatial poems. The scope note could be extended to include concepts of story-telling simply by including next to "jokes, texts, etc." the term "stories" and including next to "human memory", the term "story-telling". This would make the scope note more inclusive in terms of indigenous story-telling traditions. Publications are modelled as instances of ‘E73 Information Object’ in the context of being discussed in an educational course and elsewhere. This is limiting the capacity of the publication in relation to reception which should be modelled as a separate instance of E7 Activity.
Tia-Simone Gardner: Dark and Perfect Memories (appellation in English) →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.
Exhibition typeWorlding database field "Exhibition type"
P2 has type → E55 Type: Property ‘P2 has type’ is used to describe the classification of an exhibition based on a controlled vocabulary of types of exhibitions as a required field. The necessity to have a type for every exhibition can exclude or constrict understandings of events which do not fit in the list of offered types and may be excluded altogether.