What about the museum?
27 March 2009
ABSTRACT
Muhka is not a mud museum.

It seems that the Scanlan pavilion is intended to disappear gradually on its tour through different art institutions. At every halt fewer elements will be available to resurrect the pavilion Joe Scanlan had developed. It will never make it to the museum. At this moment Potential Estate is negotiating its aquisition for the mud museum. More later.

Muhka is not a mud museum.


Extra City Benefit Auction - Unique Potential Estate edition
Potential Estate has participated to the first beneft auction launched by Extra City Center for Contemporary Art in Antwerp the December 17th at Bernaerts Auction House in Antwerp.
Don’t forget

Potential Estate reflects on why this is the case. In doing so the entire archive will be integrated in a game matrix, to be played on location. Potential Estate reflects on the use of the collection and on a possible alternative public mediation of it. Looking through the archive Potential Estate came across one artist whose contribution to Cabinet Jurino became invaluable : Jimmie Durham. A Cherokee political activist, Durham has developed an important body of work confronting western cultural models of cultural authentification and classification. Potential Estate will acknowledge the pre-modern component of Durham’s work and its reflexivity.

Note also that the serpent is part of Jimmy Durham’s formal vocabulary (see The Center of the World, part of Muhka Collection or the Paper Museum project in Italy).


Other articles in this chapter

What’s in a name - In Cochiti (a New Mexican pueblo) Aby Warburg (Hamburg, 1866-1929) spoke to a Hopi priest named Cleo Jurino.
Reanimating the serpent - Red on Yellow, Kills a Fellow — American proverb
Ghost Dance - At the end of the 19th century Thomas Edison filmed « Ghost Dance », one of the first films ever made and the first filmic record of ‘authentic’ American Indians.
BIG MINUTES -

" My brain is frozen. I have to break free from this culture of mechanical reproduction and the thick incrustration who die on the surface "

in « House of 10.000 corpses », Rob Zombie, 2003.

Cabinet Jurino / Museumnacht - Potential Estate / Cabine Jurino Nog tot 10 september. Op donderdag 10 september tussen 18 en 21 uur sluit Potential Estate Cabinet Jurino af met een unieke presentatie van Joan Jonas’s single channel versie van ‘The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things’, een vijfdelige video-installatie die The Renaissance Society in 2004 produceerde, waarin Jonas ingaat op Aby Warburg’s studie van de Hopi beeldentaal.
Jurino Rodeo - 10 spet 2009 - JOAN JONAS "The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things" ⁂ Unique screening - European Première ⁂ + Yeeeeeha!

Tricksters

— Tricksters or fakes, assistants or ‘toons, they are exemplars of the coming community

Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community, University of Minnesota Press

What Warburg did not see

Steps and ladders are an ancient and universal device for representing the growth, the upward and downward motion of nature. They are the symbol of achievement in the rise and descent through space, just as the circle, the coiled serpent, is the symbol for the rhythm of time...

David Freedberg / Pathos at Oraibi : What Warburg did not see

One hamburger at a time

« Our ancestors sold Manhattan for trinkets. Today with the acquisition of the Hard Rock cafes we’re going to buy Manhattan back one hamburger at a time. »

Press conference Seminole Tribe

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