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'''The center is open !'''
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'''The centre is open!'''
  
 
This wiki is written collectively. Feel free to add. This wiki is meant to re-read, write, re-write and create narratives about Bidston Observatory, multivoiced and from different perspectives.
 
This wiki is written collectively. Feel free to add. This wiki is meant to re-read, write, re-write and create narratives about Bidston Observatory, multivoiced and from different perspectives.
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Open means: open for construction. Open for contributions, participation.
 
Open means: open for construction. Open for contributions, participation.
 
   
 
   
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Rather then starting from fixed positions and unmovable pasts, this wiki presents realities, histories and futures that open perspectives, that start from questions and interrogations.
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Rather than starting from fixed positions and unmovable pasts, this wiki presents realities, histories and futures that open perspectives, that start from questions and interrogations.
  
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''(below needs rewriting)''
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''Orientations of the wiki''
  
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* Are the instruments usuable, dead, or a mix of both. Being able to move
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Entries for objects and non-objects are welcome. The wiki does not look to homogenise voices or smooth transitions. Its outlook is humble, transparent and expansive. It's an invitation to improvise and tinker with objects and ideas.
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if Bidston is an artistic research center, then active use and application could be part of that ?
 
  
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* What does it mean to purchase instruments from elsewhere (so not from the Observatory itself?) what is their alikeness?  are they replicas?
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''Open invitations''
  
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* If the objects are not dead, what repair skills can people bring (buying broken instruments, it is something to do)
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* How can Bidston Observatory be contextualised as a colonial apparatus? How can our understanding of the site and its histories not reproduce colonial relationships and patterns?
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* Are the instruments at the site usuable, dead, or a mix of both? How could their active use and application be a part of artistic research in the present?
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* How do the objects physically at Bidston today relate to replicas, originals or other versions of the same technology?
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* How can damage and decline be rethought? What repair skills – conceptual and mechanical – can contributors bring?
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* What should be hospiced into disappearance rather than repaired?
  
 
* What does it mean to accumulate a collection, in a site like this? for a project like this one?  
 
* What does it mean to accumulate a collection, in a site like this? for a project like this one?  
  
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* Whats the balance between objects and mutlimedia. Contemporary conservation strategies, what is priviliged ? multimaterial ? Relation between instrument-objects and other-material objects such as audio, documents.
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* What defines a museum? What counts as heritage?
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How is it conserved and what is its place in the space ?
 
  
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* What is our stance on decolonial practices of collecting and conserving? How far are we in .. remuneration, repatriating .. in the stories that can be told/ collected about / from the building, we might want to speak to many other people, how to not be yet another colonial project. Not having totalistic relations.
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* Can this wiki document the absences and traces at Bidston Observatory today?  
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-bring other voices in
 
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* Heritage Education (de)Centre vs museum: if a museum, it would change the status of the space and planning permission rules.
 
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—what defines a museum?—
 
  
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* some things you dont have. what you do have is the building. many things absent from the building - what are the traces of the absences?
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* How does the space of Bidston reflect its intended uses? How can Bidston and its 'contents' be repurposed?
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consider decribing the traces rather than fill it with object.
 
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What is the space/place of the building? How is it specific to the de-centre?
 
  
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* a place of connection and deconnection here. what are the convergences?  
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* What perspectives can be offered by different people impacted by colonialism and its legacies? By disgruntled historians of science, astronomy, and oceanography? By the local community?
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what is the orientation of the wiki? Object? non-object? --> improvisation space, artistic research space
 
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how knowledge get structured?
 
  
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* capture the traces and introduce them as entries in the wiki.
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* Can the entries here archive aspects of how knowledge is made and structured, now and in the past?
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part of the wiki enable tinkering (way of describing the objects, as an invitation)
 
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trying not to use a universalizing voice / long quotes > freeing from the wiki protocols
 
  
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We are looking for disgruntled historians of science/silence
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''Care of the wiki''
  
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* damage will happen (to this wiki), but people that come also like to repair, ,please do if you notice wear and usure in the writing. To make it possible to touch text, will mean the relationship will be different. It needs to be cared for collectively.
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* The wiki needs to be cared for collectively. Damage will happen over time, please do offer repairs if you notice wear or signs of use in the writing.

Revision as of 06:14, 6 August 2021

The centre is open!

This wiki is written collectively. Feel free to add. This wiki is meant to re-read, write, re-write and create narratives about Bidston Observatory, multivoiced and from different perspectives.

Open means: open for construction. Open for contributions, participation.

Rather than starting from fixed positions and unmovable pasts, this wiki presents realities, histories and futures that open perspectives, that start from questions and interrogations.

Orientations of the wiki

Entries for objects and non-objects are welcome. The wiki does not look to homogenise voices or smooth transitions. Its outlook is humble, transparent and expansive. It's an invitation to improvise and tinker with objects and ideas.

Open invitations

  • How can Bidston Observatory be contextualised as a colonial apparatus? How can our understanding of the site and its histories not reproduce colonial relationships and patterns?
  • Are the instruments at the site usuable, dead, or a mix of both? How could their active use and application be a part of artistic research in the present?
  • How do the objects physically at Bidston today relate to replicas, originals or other versions of the same technology?
  • How can damage and decline be rethought? What repair skills – conceptual and mechanical – can contributors bring?
  • What should be hospiced into disappearance rather than repaired?
  • What does it mean to accumulate a collection, in a site like this? for a project like this one?
  • What defines a museum? What counts as heritage?
  • Can this wiki document the absences and traces at Bidston Observatory today?
  • How does the space of Bidston reflect its intended uses? How can Bidston and its 'contents' be repurposed?
  • What perspectives can be offered by different people impacted by colonialism and its legacies? By disgruntled historians of science, astronomy, and oceanography? By the local community?
  • Can the entries here archive aspects of how knowledge is made and structured, now and in the past?

Care of the wiki

  • The wiki needs to be cared for collectively. Damage will happen over time, please do offer repairs if you notice wear or signs of use in the writing.
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