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PUBLIC MEMORY AND DEMOCRACY IN EUROPE Sandnessjoen, 18 April 2018
Tomislav S. Šola
A TESTIMONY FROM THE SOUTH–EAST OF EUROPE & EU,
ON IMPORTANCE OF BIG PICTURE AND THE BROAD BRUSH
Any professor of Heritology
or Mnemosophy is a geek:
https://www.mnemosophy.com/
Education: Architecture, History of art,
English, Journalism, Museology...
„Museology”: with G H Riviere and
Kenneth Hudson (Zagreb, Paris, Ljubljana)
Career: curator, director, editor, professor,
consultant, conference organizer, writer.....
ICOM, EMYA, Europa Nostra
The Best in Heritage
Donald Trump Is a 24-Hour Reality Show We Can't Turn Off
velvet totalitarianism….
CONSTANT WARS AS CHAOS
MOCK DEMOCRACY
MEDIA MANIPULATION
FISCAL SLAVERY
INSECURITY AND FEAR
MERCANTILISATION OF CULTURE, EDUCATION..
PAUPERISATION
POLLUTION
UGLIFICATION
HYPOCRISY
GREED „IDEOLOGY”
CHAOS OF THE CHANGING WORLD ORDER
……..
&tc.
© Tomislav S. Šola, 2014/2018
In brief:
© Tomislav Sola, 2015
„Everything goes” turned into ”Nothing matters”
Happily enough, in the de-valuated world
MUSEUMS ARE ABOUT VALUES !!! …….
Museum is created where there is a dying heart of an identity, a
value, a quality that deserves continuation
ENDLESS TAKING
BRINGS MISERY AND RAGE
"And may we continue to be worthy
of consuming
a disproportionate share of this planet's resources"
The Rich world's prayer
Some 200 years
of heritage protection history
is long enough to inspire
and too short to oblige.
Why not finally a PM sector
and finally a profesion?
Five main reasons
for convergence
Concept
Working process (3C)
ICT
Users
Mission
Public memory as common
denominator
Museums
Archives
Monuments and sites
Knowledge bases
networks
DB inst. &systems
Privately owned
heritage
Living heritage
Libraries
WHY the invention of „GLAM” (galleries, libraries, archives, museums)
again underplays both, - the facts and the potentials
© Tomislav Šola, 1996/99/2014
Urban
action
Private
musem
forms
Civil
society
Heritage
Interpre-
tations
Political
urbanism
and public
visualisati
on
Heritage
industry
Tourism
industry
(visitor
attractions
and
interpretatio
ns)
„Museum-facts by AAM”:
• Museums Are Economic Engines
• Museums Are Community Anchors
• People Love Museums
• Museums Serve the Public
• Museums Partner with Schools
• Museums Are for Everyone
• Museums Are Trusted
• Museums Save Species
http://www.aam-us.org/about-museums/museum-facts
Impeccable and propper wording. Good start. The rest is infinite striving for the content:
OWN SCIENCE, AUTONOMOUS PROFESSION…
© Tomislav Šola, 2018
© Ivica Kiš &Tomislav Šola, 1997.
©Ivica Kiš,1997
Mr. Lowry, director of MOMA.
$1.8 million a year in salary.
Rent-free $6 mil. Apartment.
Over his tenure,
the full admission price tripled,
from $8 to $25
Future will require „licensing”
beyond usual registration & acreditaion
assuring:
• Encouraging functional unity of PM sector
• Promoting creation of PM profession
• Insisting upon non-profit status
• Supporting only public commitment
© Tomislav Šola, 2018
… so the heritage is, also, - of the people, by the people, for the people
Democracy depends upon:
• Availability of unbiased information • Rule of justice and law
(equal chances, right to difference)
• Secularity of society • Choosing the decision makers by their
competence
• Humanist definitions of heroism
• Quality interpreters of reality (schools, culture, heritage)
• Self-knowing and self-respect • Plausible system of values
© Tomislav Šola, 2018
The qualities of democratic society
Equal chances
Humanist ethics
Objective information
Free knowledge
Free social security
Respect for ancestral heritage
Respect for nature
© Tomislav Šola, 2006
The meaning of heritage
is the wisdom usable
for quality of life
(provided by the cybernetic
counter-action )
Culture and heritage can contribute
to prosperity
by
promoting, generating, and acquiring recognition for
POLITICAL AND SOCIAL LITERACY
BECAUSE, DEMOCRACY BASED UPON
MANIPULATED, SEDUCED AND ILLITERATE MASSES
IS A STAGED SPECTACLE, A DANGEROUS ILLUSION
© Tomislav Sola, 2005/2018
IDENTITARIAN MOVEMENT IS OUR FAILURE
• Information society
Drowning in data but thirsty for information
(80s)
• Knowledge society
Drowning in information, but thirsty for
knowledge
(90s)
• Wisdom society
Drowning in knowledge, but starved for wisdom
(2000)
© Tomislav Šola, 2018
Three stages of modern society
Ideally, heritage is wisdom
Tomislav Šola © 2006/ 2015
(our future) PM profession is
about the noble alchemy
of turning nowledge into wisdom
Recognising threats – offering counter-actions contributing to solutions
(some examples)
1. Educate users, citizens, voters..
2. Educate patients
3. Promote healthy diet and living
4. Educate hedonists for noble life
5. Reintegrate old persons
6. Celebrate childhood
7. Affirm qualities of arts & harmony
8. Praise nature and beauty
1. All sorts of Illiteracy
2. Terror of pharmaceutical industry
3. Biochemical degradation of food
4. Uncritical, indifferent consumption
5. Lack of trans-generational experience
6. Poor quality of childhood
7. Rudeness, imbalance, violence
8. Pollution, ugliness
© T.Šola, 2007/2018
Any threat has its opposing potential,
We are part of social cybernetics.
The nervous system
and the automatic machine
are fundamentally alike
in that they are devices,
which make decisions on the basis
of decisions they made in the past.
Norbert Wiener
PROFESSIONS AND THEIR
INSTITUTIONS ARE PRIMARILY
CONCEIVED AS MECHANISMS
OF GUIDANCE AND STEERING
OF SOCIETAL SYSTEMS
„POST-TRUTH AND POST-FACT SOCIETY ?????
We always had fake news. What has changed is:
• increasing quantity of fake, decreasing quantity of correct news
• absence of shame
• new legitimacy of lying: spin doctoring, trolling
BUT, HONESTLY, COULD YOU IMAGINE
A BETTER CHANCE FOR MUSEUMS?
The faces of Europe
or about sustainable strategy
for its future
The Three Faces of Europe
The Mother Europe
that of culture, - carring mother embracing her lost children
The Aunt Europe
that of politics, kind, concerned, confused,
never fully trusting its straggled nephews.
The Step-mother Europe
that of economy, - avaricious and ruthless,
with no nationality or cultural background.
© Tomislav Šola, 2006
Europe looks best in Bruxelles and from Bruxelles Holly bureaucracy!
1. ….the poorest of the three I
2. ….the one of democracy and rule of law, of security and common wealth F
3. ….usually discussed without context in a self-congratulary circle
4. ….the only stable, durable structure of united Europe
Europe cannot survive mere economic integration
The Mother Europe, that of culture, is…
© Tomislav Šola, 2006
European Union is surely European dream
but is it really THE European project any more?
= if
Hitler 'Outreads' Harry Potter in Latvia
Identity of Europe Politics and economy & Culture and identity
Do you know the difference between: European Council, Council of European Union and Council of Europe?
LOBBYING IS MOCKING DEMOCRACY
So, Eastern Europe has become a supply zone to the rich countries!
CASE STUDY:
treatment prescribed to a feverish transitional countries:
• Enforced privatisation
• Total deregulation
• De-industrialisation
• Banks takeover
• Usurious loans
• Financialisation
• „Grocery racism”
• Speculative investors
• Depopulation
IS THIS A CONSPIRACY THEORY?
© Tomislav Šola, 2006/2018
Since the early 1990s, some 18 million
of eastern Europe’s young, most talented workers
have left their countries
Any trace in museums?
What consequences upon identity & self appreciation?
Europe should have the strategy for heritage
• Harmonized PM sector (legislation, network)
• Spaces of functional synergy of PM sector
• Innovative, global activities, events and institutions
• Network of micro-museums
• „European contribution” spaces
• Obligatory, innovative, education for PM sector
• Major contribution to world’s heritage movement
© Tomislav Sola, 2014/16
IS CULTURE REALLY
EXPENSIVE ?
or
MILITARY
INDUSTRIAL
COMPLEX
HAS BETTER
ARGUMENTS ?
By knowledge, one can manage a corporation.
To manage society, one needs wisdom.
©Unknown Croat, 2018
www.mnemosophy.com
Conferences are about cracking the code of success!
Benchmarking experience and insight
© Tomislav Šola, 2000
The Best in Heritage
Projects of Influence
26-28 Sept 2018
Takk og se deg i Dubrovnik neste september!!
A virtual museum - travelling exhibition
www.BridgesOfEurope Shared identities
a panorama of personalities of shared identities
• Great personalities of shared identities: El Greco, Van Dyck, Paracelsus, Beckett, Rousseau, Liszt, Handel, Offenbach, Corbusier…
• Legitimization of shared identity today
• Historic and present reality
• Institutional and individual perspectives
© Tomislav Šola, 2014
British Museum and other European institutions seek way
to create a permanent exhibition of looted artefacts in Nigeria
The helpless
Majority
(public, users, community…)
Professions
(TRUE)
elites
© Tomislav Šola, 2006/2018
Where is your place in the social project?
Power holders
GROCERY
RACISM
OVER
103
MILLION
OF
EU
CITIZENS
Innovative answers
may redefine collecting….
• Whose past we document and communicate?
• Whose interests are reflected in collections?
• Product or process? object or concept? …
• Who is the owner?
• Who finances?
• Profession or occupations?
• Possesiveness or giving?
• PM system or selfish isolation?
• Mission or synecure?
© Tomislav Sola 2007/14
….from treasure to interpretive inventory ?
Can EU survive the mere economic integration?
• Can Europe of culture, the intellectual Europe, do something?
Why is culture still paid a lip sevice only? Intelectuall courage and ethics are retreating
making intelellectuals the endangered species. The Eros is gone and the sterile mutants
prevail by far. They are either obediently servicing the Machine or engage in harmless
armchair radicalism. The are often indignant but carefuly avoid displeasing anybody.
• Europe of culture is the one composed of citizens sharing consciously the European
values.
This membership is not founded upon mere selfish calculations. If oposite is the case, if
banal pragma creates Europe it will be also able to dismount it when interests and
advantages change.
• Fragmented interests as promoted by globalisation in fact cannot guarantee any stability
to any structure in face of changing economic interests. Ideological blocks gone and the
political ones expiring, only the cultural ones stand some chance. NATO is not about
defense, but about the loyalty to the leading political power and its economic bosses.
© Tomislav Šola, 2006
NO
ELECTIONS IS FORM,
DEMOCRACY IS CONTENTS
EUROPEAN COMPUTER DRIVING LICENCE
WHY NOT
EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY DRIVING LICENCE
EDDL
Healing influence of heritage
for community
• Identity consolidation by the values from the former
reality or unrealized one
• Defense of the concept of quality
• New attractive projects create development
momentum
© Tomislav Šola, 1999.
librarianship
Public memory and its science
archivistics
© Tomislav Šola, 1991/2006/2013.
museography
Mnemosophy
records
management
culture science ? museums
Collective
and social
memory
resources
Digital/DB
resources libraries
archives
Heritology Public memory
science
© Tomislav Sola, 2014
The age of museums
was the age of subdoing,
of conquest
and of taking.
The age of heritage
is that of recognition,
of returning
and of giving.
European Union is surely European dream
but is it really a European project?
By international law, a sovereign state is neither
dependent on nor subjected to any other power or state. Alcide De Gasperi, Robert Schuman, Jean Monnet and Konrad Adenauer and ? J. H. Retinger
museums
PAST USERS
THE POSITION OF PM INSTITUTIONS
© Tomislav Sola 1997
The reformed PM
institution serves
life by assisting its
vital forces.
musealisation communication collection & care
Wisdom as
perfect
memory
of the past
Libraries Archives
Museums
(varia)
Dgt-born contents
Theatres
Film and TV
Education
Industry
Knowledge
industry
Entertain-
ment industry
Heritage
Industry
Company
museums
A-v archives
Heritage ICT
networks
Privately owned
heritage
Museums
of documents
Museums
without objects
Temporary
museum forms
Conservation
and rest. inst.
Performing
arts
Exhibition
centres
Heritage
Market
Plastic arts
and literature
Public memory integrating entire heritage
© T.Šola, 1986/2002/2013.
Public memory
sector
Collective
memory
H
E
R
I
T
A
G
E
Social memory
sector
Javna memorija za društveni razvoj
MSU, Zagreb, 6. listopada 2014.,
Tomislav S. Šola
Which part of the body should the doctor examine ?
After the disaster, the Red Army conquers a
new audience.
The repertory of the
Red Army choirs is
expanding
Europe boasts rightfully with culture, taste, moderation….
and then entire Alexandrov choir is killed in plane crash…
Is Europe really independent from USA ?
The latest news: „Iran and N. Korea anti missile shield in Poland”
© Tomislav Šola, 2006
CAATSA
Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act
A SORT OF SELF CREATED INTERNATIONAL LAW
61 type of sanctions against 35 countries (40 % of world population)
February 5, 2003
US Secretary of State Colin Powell holding
……vial of anthrax while giving the presentation
to the UN Security Council
Future will require further PM„licensing”
beyond usual registration & acreditaion
• Not just endless accumulation of occupations state museum, gallery, library or archive, private museum, civil society
museum, company museum, confesional museum, temporary museum,
visitor centre, visitor attraction, heritage attraction, heritage centre,
ecomuseum, economuseum, heritage park, heritage trail, virtual
museum, hybrid museum, heritage museum(?)…
• But a united public sector, a profession approved, licensed, certified institution or action of public
relevance and meaning, not-for-profit, run with responsibility and
expertize for the public benefit
© Tomislav Šola, 2018
We shall have to make sure that
PM institutions and actions are or stay :
non-profit
maintained in public status and ambitions
© Tomislav Šola, 2018
The open society of Europe
• Direct participation of European citizens through the network of non-governmental organizations
• More resources for culture but less politicians and bureaucracy
• Accountable and reliable independence of Europe
• Moral and social state: development permeated by cultural reasoning
• Founding a Network of European Identity Interpretation Centres (NEIIC)
© Tomislav Šola, 2006
Can EU survive the mere economic integration?
• Can Europe of culture, the intellectual Europe, do something?
Why is culture still paid a lip sevice only? Intelectuall courage and ethics are retreating
making intelellectuals the endangered species. The Eros is gone and the sterile mutants
prevail by far. They are either obediently servicing the Machine or engage in harmless
armchair radicalism. The are often indignant but carefuly avoid displeasing anybody.
• Europe of culture is the one composed of citizens sharing consciously the European
values.
This membership is not founded upon mere selfish calculations. If oposite is the case, if
banal pragma creates Europe it will be also able to dismount it when interests and
advantages change.
• Fragmented interests as promoted by globalisation in fact cannot guarantee any stability
to any structure in face of changing economic interests. Ideological blocks gone and the
political ones expiring, only the cultural ones stand some chance. NATO is not about
defense, but about the loyalty to the leading political power and its economic bosses.
© Tomislav Šola, 2006
NO
So, what citizens should do against threats
in an alienated democracy?
• Trying to re-conquer the public institutions (health, education...)
• "De-profit" public institutions
• Protect integrity against corporative presures
• Denounce corruptive practice of politicians and administion
• Place religious institutions back into the realm of privacy
• Reinforce public control of the media (gone wildly corrupted)
© Tomislav Šola, 2008/2018
The ideal of the age of heritage
• Influencing/correcting the governing value system
• Contributing to quality decision making
• Public perception of PMIs: actuality, truth and unbiased profession, responsibility and wisdom serving public good
© Tomislav Šola, 2007
• Drowning in the ocean of the useless
information • Hypermnesia
• The karaoke world
• Insecurity & fear • Pauperisation-precariat-oligarchies
• Uglification of the world • Loss of quality • The end of species option
©Tomislav Sola, 2004
Aren't we lost like never before? Where are we?
We have finally arrived into the Knowledge society.
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The standpoint of the old
materialism is civil society;
the standpoint of the new
(materialism)
is human society or social
humanity.
Marx:
THE CIVIL SOCIETY IS LINKED TO THE STATE
AND REPRESENTS BOURGEOISIE
(Theses to Feuerbach)
Helping the Mother Europe to emacipate an prosper
• Political vision in global terms of some uniting quality
• Researching, teaching and sharing the European values
• Reinforcing political, economic and cultural fairness and solidarity
• Creating quality mechanism of unity: less administration and court, - more civil, common action
• Permeating the entire collective experience with contents and activities of European character
• Re-writing the history and communicating it as the "new" heritage(s) of Europe
© Tomislav Šola, 2006
All heritages are born equal