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its implication on museums/similar - ‘fixed’ exhibits and recombinatory curation -
- “Instead of imposing a grand narrative for a visitor to passively experience, the visitor is encouraged to actively explore and build their own connections and stories” - (Wolff and Mulholland, 2013)
- “might choose to access the story in a different way and make different interpretations (Wolff and Mulholland, 2013)
- “When the story is not overtly told, there is more opportunity for the visitor/reader to make their own interpretations” (Wolff and Mulholland, 2013)
- “The curator might add their own annotations, interpreting the object in the context of the narrative that is being developed” (Wolff and Mulholland, 2013)

oppressed life self-documented is counter-archive as legacy

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“What is crucial here, and what makes this practice much different from sousveillance (which Grossman’s work might resemble at first glance) is that this performatively reconfigured function of a recording device is not explicitly motivated against the hegemonic power, but by a will to construct a particular, singular, and disparate account of a given time and space (potentially productive and informative beyond the here and now, and only then, perhaps, capable of serving as evidence to balance the hegemonic archive).” ⤴️