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Our relationship with the museum has always been more of a situationship. | Our relationship with the museum has always been more of a situationship. | ||
We also consider oursleves the naughty youngest child of the museum being born around eight years ago in the wet and '''windy,''' desolate land of '''Eindhoven'''. And through our community we have found a place to live out our queer adolescence where we plot the hijack of the toilets, flirt with the paintings and make out with Angela Davis on the carpet of the womens room. | We also consider oursleves the naughty youngest child of the museum being born around eight years ago in the wet and '''[[Eindhoven|windy]],''' desolate land of '''Eindhoven'''. And through our community we have found a place to live out our queer adolescence where we plot the hijack of the toilets, flirt with the paintings and make out with Angela Davis on the carpet of the womens room. | ||
We believe the office to be a communal body where we sometimes only have our hands and feet but we are happy with the incomplete, so its okay. There's always room for a dramatic exit or a slip in because we will ever be in flux and our ancestors are only a phone call away. | We believe the office to be a communal body where we sometimes only have our hands and feet but we are happy with the incomplete, so its okay. There's always room for a dramatic exit or a slip in because we will ever be in flux and our ancestors are only a phone call away. | ||
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== '''Conception''' == | == '''Conception''' == | ||
Before the OoQA there was the beginning. In the beginning there was the creator, '''Olle''' Lundin grauated from '''Design Academy''' in 2016 and as part of that graduation he created a project. '''Queering the Collection''' was a collaboration with the Van Abbemuseum that questioned not only how we interact with the museum, but also the why of the status quo of behaviors and structures that seem so concrete and so rigid at times. The Van Abbemuseum quickly realised that these gays were onto something. | Before the OoQA there was the beginning. In the beginning there was the creator, '''[[Olle]]''' Lundin grauated from '''Design Academy''' in 2016 and as part of that graduation he created a project. '''Queering the Collection''' was a collaboration with the Van Abbemuseum that questioned not only how we interact with the museum, but also the why of the status quo of behaviors and structures that seem so concrete and so rigid at times. The Van Abbemuseum quickly realised that these gays were onto something. | ||
At the same time the Van Abbemuseum was launching itself as a self described "'''constituent museum'''" and they engaged Olle as a liason with the "consitutencies" - groups of people who were to engage with the museum in varying capacities. Olle found '''Claire''' and they formed a '''bookclub''' within the walls of museum. '''Karl''', '''Noam''' and Tadhg quickly followed and brought a kinetic kinship to the group. Together with the bookclub the newly formed '''Queer Constituency''' became the new "enfant terrible" of the museum and began stomping around the exhibition halls in full toddler glory. | At the same time the Van Abbemuseum was launching itself as a self described "'''constituent museum'''" and they engaged Olle as a liason with the "consitutencies" - groups of people who were to engage with the museum in varying capacities. Olle found '''Claire''' and they formed a '''bookclub''' within the walls of museum. '''Karl''', '''Noam''' and Tadhg quickly followed and brought a kinetic kinship to the group. Together with the bookclub the newly formed '''Queer Constituency''' became the new "enfant terrible" of the museum and began stomping around the exhibition halls in full toddler glory. | ||