Day 1 London. V&A Storehouse

The most exposed, open plan collection of 'curated' accessible artefacts and art works. 

Brilliant idea- completely honest about how big the collection is -with room to grow -I was suprised at how much i missed gallery approaches to curation - I didn't want to interact with QR codes -I like wall text and catalogues and seeing how people platform art. 

This space changes that relationship.

 

 

 

Honest reflections around how women are included in the art conversation and how approaches can be problematic.

 Bowie notes

 

Marie Kondo style organisation of archived Bowie - i wonder what this would look like for someone who is not a celebrity. 

Documents filed around social and legal struggles, representations of hoarded clothes and throw away fashion because people can't afford quality wardrobe staples that last and they fear getting rid of what they canb't replace - indications of mental health difficulties in normal existance - The video could be replaced by typical mundane street scenes and the memorabilia replaced with those few items that last years that are depended on.

Is this the modern day equivalent of an egyptian send off?  The body and physical relations are less important to remember than the evidence of the creativity that made a modern god.  

Really interesting to watch how people navigate this space - It's a combiniation of accessible displays like the reproductions of Bowies archival notes and the video, and then there's a lot of presentation - the suits that are concealed but neatly represent costumes and indicate how they may have travelled, boxes and boxes of labelled archived magazines photographs and transcripts. It's a really interesting space. 

Made me think about what you show and what you indicate is there.