Fwd: Museums — Small

How do museums respond to the urgency of the moment? In what ways can they be critically transformed to foster social justice work? Fwd: Museums, an inclusive, cross-disciplinary journal, shares interventions, experiments, and community dialogues within and outside of museums. Our contributors reexamine, critique, and challenge museums as socially responsive spaces. In our second issue, themed “small,” you will find artwork, essays, poetry, and other creative forms that explore topics such as: Small alternative exhibition spaces; Marginalized identities challenging dominant structures; Impacts of small objects in and outside of museums; Unique possibilities, challenges, and contexts offered by small museums and exhibitions; Perspectives of museum workers in “small” positions; Smallness and consumability. Now it’s your turn. We’re looking Fwd to continuing the conversation.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(Coming soon: Downloadable PDFs of each section)

1. Table of Contents
2. Acknowledgements  & Publication Team
3. Language Matters by Javairia Shahid
4. Welcome by The Floating Museum
5. Introduction by Sarita Hernández
   

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6. Value of Small Things
7. The Society of Smallness; A Brief History by Georgina Valverde
8. Life in Miniature: An Ode to the Thorne Rooms by Elizabeth Lalley
9. Fresh Theft: Consuming Art by Yasmin Zacaria Mitchel
10. Small Things with Great Love: An Art Department – Library Exhibition Initiative by Jane Darcovich
11. A Conversation By The Loo on Artist Run Spaces by Noora Al Balushi
    

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12. Engagement 
13. Lift to release (white cube) by Juan Camilo Guzmán
14. Expanding Care: Curation in the Age of Engagement by Aletheia Wittman
15. Size Misprint: Architecture of Power by Silvia Gonzalez
16. Small objects, big impact by Laura Phillips
    

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17. Marginalization  
18. The Art Museum Chasm by Marjorie Schwarzer
19. Critical Narratives of the Marginalized by Karen Vidángos
20. La Madre Chiquita by William Camargo
21. The World in a Box by Tim Gorichanaz
    

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22. Location  
23. Compressed, Compact, Concise, and Refined: A Museum in Switzerland by Deniz Balık
24. Air, Water, and Earth: Lessons on communication from a museum in the mountains by Michelle Dezember
25. Open Table by Roni Packer
26. Hong Kong Identity: Utilizing the Small to Challenge the Big by Benjamin J. Hruska
27. The Fine Art of Reduction: Diminishment, Distance and Taylor’s Panorama of Sydney by Meighen S. Katz
    

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28. Disturbing Histories
29. Book Review–Museums, Heritage, and Indigenous Voice: Decolonising the Museum by Alexis Mixon
30. Selections from “Focusing (Vol. II)” by alejandro t. acierto
31. Book Review–Bone Rooms: Shedding Light on the Problematic Past of Anthropologists and Museums by Benjamin L. Locke
32. Confronting the Holocaust: Immersive Counter-Memorials as Sites of Collective Memory by Lillian Hussong
33. The White Palace of the West by Jonathan Kelley
34. About the Contributors