When the Artist Outperforms the Archaeologist
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 2019-07-10

In this performance Daisy Diggle (your local archaeologist) will show the pitfalls of archaeological art projects, especially when the audience starts to believe you. What happens when a project about critical thinking turns into fake-knowledge. Diggle will elaborate on a cooperation with Dr Iris Taylor from the Flat Earth Museum on Fogo Island, Canada. Followed by a statement by marjolijn kok, director of the Museum of Failure and Unloved Objects about how failure can give us insight into the working of knowledge production. Failure is not an end, it is the opening up of new strands of thought. When we use a well-known form like the museum catalogue to play with objects and interpretation we may fail to be accurate but we could show a deeper understanding of the material culture around us.

Prof. Daisy Diggle aka marjolijn kok (Bureau Archeologie en Toekomst)

Tag Deva 2018
Session: Practising Creativity: Experimentation, Mistakes and Successes in Art-Archaeology