Both of the guest speakers that we’ve had so far struck me as people who, in very different ways, have found an original and innovative way to turn personal interactions into meaningful and effective histories.
My biggest surprise in relation to the Museum of the Person was that it is not really a museum, or at least not in the way that my mind defines a conventional museum. I think the word “museum” is still perfect for it though; it is an institution which exhibits things for the public, and being the “Museum of the Person”, what it exhibits is people. And bringing the museum to the people, rather than hoping for the people to come to the museum, struck me as an excellent idea when considering the kind of exhibitions the museum is doing. I love the idea of a booth for people to go into and talk. It makes me think it would be great if there was a way for people to just sit down at home and talk into a camera about their life experiences. (Then I think about all the Vloggers on YouTube and sort of change my mind.) But doing all of this in Sao Paolo – one of the world’s most populated areas – makes a lot of sense to me, and I think it would be really interesting to try and adapt some of those ideas to the Tokyo metropolis as well. Perhaps if there were little tell-your-life-story booths on the trains for people to talk their heads off in on their way to and from work…
What was powerful about the photographical presentations we saw was more about the content. Just seeing the sorts of pictures he got to take tells all sorts of stories about the troubles that he had to go through to get them, but then hearing some of the gritty details to those stories straight from the photographer was of course even more impressive. It was certainly inspiring to see that just by making the right connections and building relationships with people, you can come out with content as strong and striking as that. It also makes my project about bars look like a cakewalk in comparison.
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