{"id":15,"date":"2024-01-12T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/flemingmuseumofart\/?p=15"},"modified":"2024-12-12T14:06:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T19:06:20","slug":"never-spoken-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/flemingmuseumofart\/never-spoken-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

February 6 – May 18, 2024<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"MichaelOn a desk within the Museum f\u00fcr Naturkunde in Berlin, an old stuffed parrot guards a small library and a vast, yet obsolete ornithology collection. An excited young scientist reads a story on the origins of the desiccated animal to entertain a group of visitors: it may have been the last “speaker” of a dead Indigenous language from colonial Venezuela or a German prince’s precious gift to the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. There is no clear understanding which of these versions, if any, might be true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curated by David Ayala-Alfonso, Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections<\/em><\/strong> is a traveling exhibition that reflects on the birth of modern collections, the art institutions that sustain them, and their contingent origin stories to reveal a universe of erasures, violence, and fortuity. Considering how institutional collections organize our lives, Never Spoken Again<\/em> brings together artists whose works open up a critique of material culture, iconography, and political ecologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In turn, each of the works sheds light on myths, simulations, fake currencies, war games, and the slow violence of systematic racism that historically underpin collecting practices. Together, they invite inquiry into how our collective histories are presented, curated, fabricated, or all of the above. With wit, curiosity, and compassion, Never Spoken Again<\/em> asks the question most museum visitors dare not: How did these objects and artworks get to a gallery in Vermont anyway? And why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In complement to\u00a0Never Spoken Again<\/em>, the Fleming Museum of Art’s Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, Kristan M. Hanson, has incorporated commissioned, loaned, and existing works from the Museum’s collections. From a panel of stone carved in relief which once decorated the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II’s (r. 883\u2013859 BCE) palace to a newly printed 3-D\u00a0Copy of the Bust of Nefertiti\u00a0<\/em>(2023), the exhibition further expands and enriches the\u00a0Fleming’s ongoing efforts\u00a0to interrogate its collecting histories and implement impactful changes in museum practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visitors will have several opportunities to delve deeper into the exhibition, including two hour-long screening events featuring video artworks from\u00a0Never Spoken Again<\/em>\u00a0as well as a public tour guided by Hanson and the Fleming’s Manager of Collections and Exhibitions, Margaret Tamulonis.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top Image |\u00a0Michael Rakowitz,\u00a0The invisible enemy should not exist \u2013 Seated Nude Male Figure, Wearing Belt Around Waist (IM77823) (Recovered, Missing, Stolen Series),<\/em>\u00a02018. Middle Eastern packaging and newspapers, glue, cardboard, 96 x 73 x 73 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Barbara Wien Gallery.<\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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William Everard Balch (United States, 1854\u20131919), attributed to Edward Gerrard and Sons England, ca. 1850\u20131967. Red-lored parrot (Amazon autumnalis), late 19th cen. Courtesy of the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium  Z02346<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Richard Ross (United States, b. 1947), Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France<\/em>, from Museology<\/em>, 1982. Ektacolor Plus print. Gift of the artist 1987.19.1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Copy<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

University of Vermont FabLab (United States, opened 2012). Copy of the Bust of Nefertiti,<\/em> 2023. Resin, 3-D printed. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. Attribution: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Courtesy of the UVM FabLab<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections<\/em>\u00a0is a traveling exhibition curated by David Ayala-Alfonso and produced by Independent Curators International (ICI). It is the result of a new series of programs, pioneered with the support of the Hartfield Foundation, aimed at providing opportunities to alumni of ICI\u2019s Curatorial Intensive as they move through the stages of their career, and reflecting ICI\u2019s commitment to fostering and championing new curatorial voices who will shape the future of the field.\u00a0Never Spoken Again\u00a0<\/em>is made possible with the generous support of ICI\u2019s Board of Trustees and International Forum. Additional support for Erkan \u00d6znur\u2019s participation is provided by SAHA. The presentation at the Fleming Museum of Art has been organized in collaboration with Kristan M. Hanson, the Fleming\u2019s curator of collections and exhibitions.\u00a0Crozier Fine Arts is the Preferred Art Logistics Partner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artists: Morehshin Allahyari, Maria Thereza Alves, Fran\u00e7ois Bucher, Giuseppe Campuzano, Alia Farid, Sofia de Grenade, Laura Huertas Mill\u00e1n, Ulrik L\u00f3pez, Carlos Motta, Erkan \u00d6znur, David Pe\u00f1a Lopera, Claudia Pe\u00f1a Salinas, Michael Rakowitz, Beatriz Santiago Mu\u00f1oz, Reyes Santiago Rojas, Daniel R. Small, and Felipe Steinberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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February 6 – May 18, 2024 On a desk within the Museum f\u00fcr Naturkunde in Berlin, an old stuffed parrot guards a small library and a vast, yet obsolete ornithology collection. An excited young scientist reads a story on the origins of the desiccated animal to entertain a group of visitors: it may have been … <\/p>\n

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