ABSTRACT

In the twenty-first century, museum learning has shifted with the world's social climate, exploring new approaches to engage the public with collections. This text reframes the museum art educator as an activator and how they can utilize concepts within Afrofuturism to decolonize hegemonic white cultural institutions and Eurocentric epistemes. Taking inspiration from the #MuseumAreNotNeutral movement that started in 2017, the article probes three examples of activities conducted by museum activators through an Afrofuturistic a-r-tography approach. The activities discussed draw from author Octavia Butler's Parable Series and the popular Pan-African philosophical concepts ubuntu (human kindness) and sankofa (relation of time) as learning prompts on exhibition tours at the Art Gallery of Ontario. The analysis and application of an Afrofuturistic a-r-tographic framework will provide insights into the parable of museum learning and the potential future for a museum activator's role.

摘要

在 21 世纪，博物馆学习随着世界社会气候的变化而发生了变化，探索了让公众参与收藏的新方法。本书将博物馆艺术教育者重新定义为激活者，以及他们如何利用非洲未来主义中的概念来非殖民化霸权的白人文化机构和以欧洲为中心的认识论。文章从 2017 年开始的#MuseumAreNotNeutral 运动中汲取灵感，探讨了博物馆活动家通过非洲未来主义艺术方法开展的三个活动示例。讨论的活动来自作者 Octavia Butler 的寓言系列和流行的泛非哲学概念ubuntu（人类善良）和sankofa（时间关系）作为安大略美术馆巡回展览的学习提示。Afrofuturistic 图形框架的分析和应用将为博物馆学习的寓言和博物馆激活者角色的潜在未来提供见解。