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The Presence, Provenance and Presentness of a Non Artifact

Author(s) -

David Pantalony

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

museum and society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1479-8360

DOI - 10.29311/mas.v17i3.3207

Subject(s) - tile , context (archaeology) , artifact (error) , narrative , provenance , visual arts , history , aesthetics , art , sociology , computer science , archaeology , literature , artificial intelligence , biology , paleontology

This article is a biography of a green tile collected from a Canadian hospital. It explores various properties of the tile in order to draw out lessons for research and display in museums. There are immediate sensory qualities of the tile that have inspired an exhibit about the colour green in medicine; there are aspects of the tileu0027s provenance that bring out multiple local and international narratives; there are stories of the tileu0027s present context that provide a powerful reminder that museum artifacts are not just vehicles for exploring the past, but for understanding what remains in the present.

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