The Difficulties of Interpreting Mediterranean Voices: Exhibiting Intangibles Using New Technologies
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Within the framework of the European Union’s EuroMedHeritage II programme, 2001-2004, thirteen partners workedtogether with London Metropolitan University as co-ordinatorwithin the Mediterranean Voices project. This was designed toresearch the intangible heritage of these cosmopolitancommunities, the ‘glocalisation’ in globalisation, as mademanifest through the oral testimonies of the ordinary citizenswith respect to everyday life in the city. This paper investigatesthe tensions arising from (1) translating private interviews ontoa highly public medium such as is the IT database withoutproducing ‘reification’ (2) the value of oral history in themuseum and how it can be used to re-value intangible heritage(3) the difficulties of exhibiting information on intangibleheritage, based on implicit background knowledge, anddesigned as ‘triggers’ of memory and reminiscences, toaudiences lacking the requisite contextualisation, either forspatial reasons (people from mainland Spain or othercountries, new immigrant communities) or for motivesassociated with time (people of the younger generations whohave not been exposed to the reality exhibited). The paper also,and most importantly, analyses (4) the role of the museum asan ‘activator’ of memory and a centre for discussion andpromotion of community identity, sense of place and belongingas opposed to its modernist conception as an educator of the‘uncultured’ masses and archive of encyclopaedic wisdom.
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Within the framework of the European Union’s EuroMedHeritage II programme, 2001-2004, thirteen partners workedtogether with London Metropolitan University as co-ordinatorwithin the Mediterranean Voices project. This was designed toresearch the intangible heritage of these cosmopolitancommunities, the ‘glocalisation’ in globalisation, as mademanifest through the oral testimonies of the ordinary citizenswith respect to everyday life in the city. This paper investigatesthe tensions arising from (1) translating private interviews ontoa highly public medium such as is the IT database withoutproducing ‘reification’ (2) the value of oral history in themuseum and how it can be used to re-value intangible heritage(3) the difficulties of exhibiting information on intangibleheritage, based on implicit background knowledge, anddesigned as ‘triggers’ of memory and reminiscences, toaudiences lacking the requisite contextualisation, either forspatial reasons (people from mainland Spain or othercountries, new immigrant communities) or for motivesassociated with time (people of the younger generations whohave not been exposed to the reality exhibited). The paper also,and most importantly, analyses (4) the role of the museum asan ‘activator’ of memory and a centre for discussion andpromotion of community identity, sense of place and belongingas opposed to its modernist conception as an educator of the‘uncultured’ masses and archive of encyclopaedic wisdom.