After the Conference WORKING ON THINGS in November 2016 researcher Nicola Kritzinger here presents her paper The Journey of a man with a fish here in a YouTube Video.
‘An unassuming, seemingly rudimentary ceramic figure sits in storage for years, surrounded by innumerable objects also relegated to containers. Even in its apparent silence and obscurity, thepresence and displacement of this object reveals something of an expansive history; various social histories, including a number political eras from the imperial, to the colonial, and eventual democracy; and relates something of the construction of value systems for art, objects and museums across these periods. It hints at the work implicit in every museum object.’