How we grasp our life and project our imagination of it into the future rely on the represented history and the value system built on its interpretations. The pandemic and its ensuing crises, including the ongoing war, has shaken this base and made it no longer reliable. This may be a very personal experience, but …
This is a writing for Wellington Zinefest “Together Apart”, published in August 2021. Through an experience of my hometown food in the middle of COVID-19 lockdown, this writing is to contemplate what the implication of “being at home” can be in different life situations.
It is usually taken for granted by museum visitors that archaeological objects are chronologically displayed according to certain scientific classifications. These methodologies serve a continuous historical narrative, either to promote simplified Darwinian evolution of humanity from primitive to modern, or patriotic sentiments. This methodology also guides the selection of the objects to be exhibited. Yet this leaves us with a rarely asked question—how about objects which cannot be integrated into the museum’s story, and thus are rendered as ‘others,’ by current museology?