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Making Ends Meet: Essays and Talks 1992-2004 Wedde, Ian These essays and talks disclose persistent questionings of the role of institutions in culture. Wedde worked from 1994 to 2004 as a member of the conceptual team charged with developing the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa's radical agenda. He came to be closely linked with the museum's aspirations for wide popular appeal, public scholarship and contemporary relevance. Making Ends Meet provides a running commentary on the pressing cultural issues of that project and those years. Wedde challenges Te Papa to remain appealing, self-critical, relevant and unafraid: to refuse official sanctimony and to resist co-option to risk-free national brands. Subjects include the relationship of art and ethnology, the failure of late modernist art history, the construction of official culture, the intellectual history of European exploration in the Pacific, the 'Pakeha Maori', the relationship of archives and narratives, and walking the dog. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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