Workshop

Unlearning the language of museums

13 Oct 2018

Regular hours

Saturday
10:00 – 18:00

Cost of entry

Free

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Tate Modern

London, United Kingdom

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  • Bus: 45, 63, 100, 344, 381, RV1
  • Tube: Southwark/Blackfriars
  • Train: London Bridge
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For this interactive workshop in the galleries of Tate Modern we will take on the label, the text, the word and the image. Facilitated by Museum Club participants will be led through a series of exercises in writing gallery text from a variety of perspectives, including their own.

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Museums tell stories, the stories of the people in power and their established structures. As institutions destined for elite and scholars since their conception, museums have (mainly) told the stories of their collections through text. Although this has started to change in recent years, text in the form of panels and labels are often the only source of interpretation of artefacts and artworks. Who is writing these stories and with what type of language? How biased or objective is it? How can the people experiencing the institution can relate to and understand this written interpretation and its hidden nuances of production?

For this interactive workshop in the galleries of Tate Modern we will take on the label, the text, the word and the image. Facilitated by Museum Club participants will be led through a series of exercises in writing gallery text from a variety of perspectives, including their own. Through discussion we hope to unlock the social potential of the museum by un-learning the established structure of language that has constructed our experience of art in the museum for too long. 

Accessibility: Please let us know if you have any access requirements or questions about access when you make your booking.  Tate Modern is equipped with step-free access. Museum Club members are fully trained in audio description.

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