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Episode 2 - The Exhibitionist: Alice Procter
This week, we sit down with Alice Procter to chat about her Uncomfortable Art Tours of London's galleries and museums. From our favorite female history role models to museum profiling, Alice shares her insight on the stance of museums today and how they need to change. She also shares her journey of activism and how she started giving these tours shedding a light on the colonial and imperial truths of our museums.
About Alice:
Alice Procter is historian of material culture based at UCL. She has six years of tour guiding experience at heritage sites and galleries, and she curates exhibitions, organises events, make podcasts and write things under the umbrella of The Exhibitionist.
More About the Tours
Uncomfortable Art Tours are exactly what they sound like.In a country that’s repeatedly failed to come to terms with its colonial past, led by politicians who seem to think the past is the future, we seek to resist triumphalist nostalgia with art history. How did the narratives of Empire come into being? Who controls them? And how can we learn to see through the whitewash to the truth?
These Tours focus on how major institutions came into being against a backdrop of imperialism. On each tour, we unravel the role colonialism played in shaping and funding a major national collection, looking at the broader material history of celebrated works: where the money comes from, the ways they’ve been displayed, and the ideological aesthetics at work. The history of British art is also the history of empire and genocide, written by collectors who traded in landscapes and lives.
Currently, Uncomfortable Art Tours run at six sites: the National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate Britain and the Queen’s House (National Maritime Museum).
website: https://www.theexhibitionist.org/
twitter: @aaprocter
facebook: facebook.com/exhibitionistpod
Credits:
'Words Apart' is funded by SLiICE
SOAS RADIO
Music is by Happy People
Thank you to:
Nathaniel Reidy
Mim Fothergill
Nick Pritchard
All the guests!
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By wordsapartThis week, we sit down with Alice Procter to chat about her Uncomfortable Art Tours of London's galleries and museums. From our favorite female history role models to museum profiling, Alice shares her insight on the stance of museums today and how they need to change. She also shares her journey of activism and how she started giving these tours shedding a light on the colonial and imperial truths of our museums.
About Alice:
Alice Procter is historian of material culture based at UCL. She has six years of tour guiding experience at heritage sites and galleries, and she curates exhibitions, organises events, make podcasts and write things under the umbrella of The Exhibitionist.
More About the Tours
Uncomfortable Art Tours are exactly what they sound like.In a country that’s repeatedly failed to come to terms with its colonial past, led by politicians who seem to think the past is the future, we seek to resist triumphalist nostalgia with art history. How did the narratives of Empire come into being? Who controls them? And how can we learn to see through the whitewash to the truth?
These Tours focus on how major institutions came into being against a backdrop of imperialism. On each tour, we unravel the role colonialism played in shaping and funding a major national collection, looking at the broader material history of celebrated works: where the money comes from, the ways they’ve been displayed, and the ideological aesthetics at work. The history of British art is also the history of empire and genocide, written by collectors who traded in landscapes and lives.
Currently, Uncomfortable Art Tours run at six sites: the National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate Britain and the Queen’s House (National Maritime Museum).
website: https://www.theexhibitionist.org/
twitter: @aaprocter
facebook: facebook.com/exhibitionistpod
Credits:
'Words Apart' is funded by SLiICE
SOAS RADIO
Music is by Happy People
Thank you to:
Nathaniel Reidy
Mim Fothergill
Nick Pritchard
All the guests!