Next Thursday at 4pm I'm running a seminar in Footscray about our 'Keepers of Ghosts' signwriting exhibition and mural painting project. Everyone is welcome. We were due to do this seminar in May, but last-minute family stuff got in the way and so we've rescheduled.
Here's the official blurb:
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Beginning with the creation of an online document archive (www.lewisandskinner.com), the project has since developed into an experimental community research project involving sign writers, shopkeepers, local history aficionados, students and people interested in ‘ghost signs’, or the remains of painted advertising signs. Activities have included a seminar, a blog, an online survey, student projects and a 2013 exhibition in a local cafĂ©, the wall of which was used as a canvas for the communal painting (by Tony Mead and helpers) of a signwriting-related mural.
Over 200 people visited the exhibition, and the project featured on the Channel Ten news, ABC Radio, The Age and local newspapers.
Here's the official blurb:
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The Keepers of Ghosts seminar will feature key people from the project Dr Stefan Schutt, Dr Lisa Cianci and professional sign artist
and historian Tony Mead.
The Keepers of Ghosts project began when 10,000 records from a
former sign-painting company were rescued from a demolition site in Footscray,
Melbourne.
Beginning with the creation of an online document archive (www.lewisandskinner.com), the project has since developed into an experimental community research project involving sign writers, shopkeepers, local history aficionados, students and people interested in ‘ghost signs’, or the remains of painted advertising signs. Activities have included a seminar, a blog, an online survey, student projects and a 2013 exhibition in a local cafĂ©, the wall of which was used as a canvas for the communal painting (by Tony Mead and helpers) of a signwriting-related mural.
Over 200 people visited the exhibition, and the project featured on the Channel Ten news, ABC Radio, The Age and local newspapers.
In this presentation Stefan and Tony will discuss a number of
interrelated threads:
- Tony’s reflections on the project from the point of view of a sign painting professional
- the widespread and growing use of sociable mediato informally document and share otherwise-forgotten aspects of urban memory, generating a form of ‘network sociality’ connected to place and belonging;
- the proposition that the interplay between digital and physical archival activities can be harnessed to involve and connect diverse groups of people with shared interests, invoking the notion of a ‘museum without walls’;
- some preliminary findings from the project interviews, written comments and surveys
Date: Thursday 2 October 2014
Venue: Room T109, Bld T, Footscray Nicholson
Campus
(cnr Buckley and Nicholson Streets, Footscray)
(cnr Buckley and Nicholson Streets, Footscray)
Time: 4.00pm to 5.00pm
As numbers
will be limited please RSVP by Wednesday 1 October to polly.probert@vu.edu.au. Please feel
free to forward this to anyone who may be interested.
Time: 4.00pm to 5.00pm
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