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Episode 5: Only Collections in the Building Podcast series
Episode 5: Solidarity and Risk
Graffiti from Cairo, which was in response to the 2011 revolution. The translation for the Arabic is “glory to those who are unknown”
Rather than risky places, you may be more likely to think about museums quiet and conservative spaces, ultimately resistant to change or transformation. However risk, and the perception of risk, dominates museum work in some quite fundamental ways.
One of the most obvious ways in which risk dictates museum process and practice is through the management of risks to collections.
However in this episode we focus on reputational risk at an institutional level, and the unspoken emotional risks that community members and collaborators take when they work with museums. Attending to the present moment, institutional silences relating to Palestine, and the impact on All Eyes on Her, we explore the current climate of silence, self-censorship and the politics of solidarity.