SAM Talks: “Unpacking My Collection” - Vinyl, music, and our desire to collect with Jon Dale
Event description
If you're an old soul with a love for physical media in the digital age, you're invited to join us for an exciting iteration of SAM Talks, led by University of Melbourne's Jon Dale.
This talk unspools a thread from critic Walter Benjamin’s 1931 essay, Unpacking My Library, where the author explores the practice of collecting, with the collector “locking… individual items within a magic circle”, while attempting “to renew the old world” – to “bring… coherence to a chaotic world”, as scholar Kevin Moist notes.
What does it mean, then, to collect records, for their status both as objects themselves and as carriers of recorded culture? Using Brett Whiteley’s record collection as an example, this talk considers the desires that underpin the chaos and order of the collection – and of the collector.
Program Details
Date + time: Thursday 18 September, 6pm to 7.15pm
Location: Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton
Price: Free – registrations essential
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