The Kingdom
The following text is a projectdescription of The Kingdom, by Dora Garcia. The kingdom tries to envision a possible future for the museum that might radically differ from the museum we know today. I give some quotes that explicitly adress the future of the museum. You can find the rest of the text here on the publicationforum of the Digitaal Platform.
The Kingdom, 2003-
By Dora Garcia
“The Kingdom thinks of the Museum as a complex, a very complex network of relationships. The complexity of the Museum is such that it has to be governed by a strict set of rules. This set of rules allows the Museum to foresee the future. A system cannot survive without projecting itself into the future. This anticipation of the future is calculated by the detailed observance of a set of rules (learned from experience, from the past) and allows the system to adapt itself on time to the circumstances to come.”
“Did we really foresee what was going to happen or did it happen because we foresaw it?”
“The Kingdom chooses a future for the Museum based on a wide amount of information collected from the past and from the daily agenda of the Museum. The Kingdom writes a story (The Future) which precedes the events it describes; it is a prophecy.”
“As time passes, The Kingdom’s future, present and past mix together in the dream of memory. The novel is concluded.”
“The Kingdom must take into account the logical, the inevitable, the everyday, the unexpected, the contradictory, the extraordinary. And the supernatural.”
“The Museum should treat education as a priority. […] The Kingdom should not. The Kingdom’s basic purpose is to disinform. The Kingdom relinquishes the spectator’s education in favour of his/her perplexity. The Kingdom does not want to enrich the spectator’s perception of the world, or his/her perception of him/herself: it questions them.”
“The Museum has to reconstruct the last forty years of the nation’s artistic and cultural memory.” […] The Kingdom doesn’t. The Kingdom’s ambitions are far more modest.”
“Is the Kingdom an artwork? You decide.”
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