What rumble reaches us from the museum? Can we create a rum-rum that reaches the museum itself?
‘The Rum-Rum Will Be Memorable’ is the project inaugurating the action line IVAM in the Territory for the 2020-2021 school year. It is an initiative of the IVAM Education Department in collaboration with the Valencian art and education collective La Figuera.
The project aims to activate a critical educational process to facilitate knowledge of and engagement with IVAM as a contemporary art museum, based on the tension between the idea of a place for art conservation (for memory) and a place of social construction (activating knowledge to reinterpret the present). This tension lies between the “grand narratives” contained in the museum’s collections and the “small stories” that shape daily life in contexts seemingly distant from cultural centrality.
The purpose of the project is to foster joint reflection on our ideas about museums and contemporary art to carry out an action that encourages participation from CRA centers and involves the educational community and local residents, making visible everyday stories and discourses through contemporary art in a performative action in the territory.
The project will take place in the various classrooms of each CRA, activating reflections and actions using sound and physical materials. The aim is to spark curiosity among students and their surroundings, inviting them to participate in creating a new local event. Students will collect the “voices of the museum” and interpret them, later gathering voices from the community and highlighting daily stories during the final day.
The goal is for the students to become protagonists in a day that makes visible the everyday stories of their closest surroundings. This process culminates in a protest-style walk and a radio action, allowing the work carried out during the reflection and action process in each classroom to be shared.
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