We are pleased to have our Dangrove project included in the international publication Keeping Culture: The Architecture of Storage.
A global survey of art storage facilities, the book is edited by Susan Holden and Ashley Paine from the University of Queensland and published by Valiz, an independent publisher on contemporary art, theory, critique, design and urban affairs based in Amsterdam.
From the publisher:
Keeping Culture explores the scope, scale, and significance of contemporary cultural storage facilities, providing new insights into their implications for collecting and conservation, and for the broader understanding of cultural heritage. It also brings the field’s current interest in visible and open storage design into dialogue with the spatial evolution and programmatic disruptions that have defined the history of museums, and the architectural experiments that have accompanied the cultural work of keeping things.
Susan Holden’s chapter, Art, Architecture, City - Dangrove and the Temporality of Collecting examines our project in the wider context of Judith Neilson’s cultural endeavour as a collector of art and the buildings that contain it.
Beyond this, the book explores a broad range of curatorial topics, including a chapter by Carroll Go-Sam on the challenging issue of Australian institutional practices in relation to recognition of First People’s cultures.
It’s a thought-provoking publication that asks questions about the purpose, meaning and politics of collections, and where architecture fits in. You can buy the book here.
