{"id":772,"date":"2015-11-09T23:11:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T04:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/?p=772"},"modified":"2017-02-15T11:51:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T16:51:34","slug":"celia-mary-wilson-displacement-in-art-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/celia-mary-wilson-displacement-in-art-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Celia Mary Wilson ‘Displacement in Art Gallery’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oxford, a small town in rural New Zealand (population of country: 4 million, size of country – similar to the United Kingdom), has a five year old, purpose-built white-cube gallery. \u00a0The outside of the gallery is that of a farm building – corrugated iron and weatherboard – and not particularly noticeable. \u00a0Entering the gallery is, however, \u00a0like walking into Dr Who’s\u00a0Tardis. \u00a0What they see inside is not what is\u00a0expected, either from the space or its contents.<\/p>\n

We have, in fact, plonked the urban in the rural, a city type gallery in a (what I consider) conservative farming community. \u00a0Having said that, Oxford\u00a0has been described to me as a place chosen\u00a0by artists to live in.<\/p>\n

Art is generally invisible in the town, though there are memorials, a decorated public convenience, and sculpture in the children’s play park. \u00a0Oxford is a noted stopping point for tourists on the Inland Scenic route 72.\u00a0\u00a0With a farmers’ market every Sunday, plenty of restaurants,\u00a0cafes and specialist shops, supermarket, museum, library, bank, postoffice, vets and medical centre, \u00a0Oxford provides good amenities and quality consumer goods for locals and visitors.<\/p>\n

Immigrants to this area – global and local – over the past few years have changed the town. \u00a0Older inhabitants it seems to me are not interested in art but a new more urban set has arrived, displaced by earthquakes and who are amenable to the ‘art’ idea. \u00a0We are working on it, and making some inroads into old ideas such as ‘good’ art… or landscape art…<\/p>\n

The gallery itself is a site of contesting power to some. \u00a0The gallery would want to be accepted more widely by the local community. \u00a0It has held community meetings to engage with those who wish to comment and offer ideas – five people came – the others present were already part of the gallery organisation.<\/p>\n

Entry\u00a0into the gallery itself is a barrier to some who think it’s an alien, illogical space, even though we’ve held children’s art shows, treasure hunts, and art workshops. \u00a0Anything challenging (even abstract works) disturbs or even angers them.<\/p>\n

So in a way my displacement was a displacement within a displacement.<\/p>\n

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I just wish I had dumped all three bags in the gallery, and made a bit of a mess!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oxford, a small town in rural New Zealand (population of country: 4 million, size of country – similar to the United Kingdom), has a five year old, purpose-built white-cube gallery. \u00a0The outside of the gallery is that of a farm building – corrugated iron and weatherboard – and not particularly noticeable. \u00a0Entering the gallery is, … <\/p>\n

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