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At 3:12pm on November 7, 2008, Wu Ming 4 said…: Gabriella, ti ho risposto sulla mia pagina, ma non hai replicato. Ti suggerivo di scrivermi all'indirizzo di posta elettronica "domestico", così ci mettevamo d'accordo per la spedizione: federico.guglielmi@fastwebnet.it
Grazie!
Federico

At 9:53am on August 18, 2008, KAYA said…: oh, gabriella, i completely oversaw this post! i think it should be posted in the museum group, so we could react on it directly!

thx!

At 8:45pm on August 16, 2008, Manuela Scebba said…: eheh siculamenteeeeeeeeeee sicule!!! yeah we should talk in sicilian... really a funny way of communicating...
i'm going back to syria the 29 of august...so ensha'allah i will meet u there...i hope so...
au basunedduuuuuuuu e divettite

At 3:45pm on August 10, 2008, M. Gabriella Micale said…: As soon as Kaya asked me to enter the discussion about the Museum of the Occident I sent him an email with my first doubts about it. It mainly concerned the nature of the collection we want to arrange. The displayed collection is usually the joint between a space (traditionally the building) and a set of objects (traditionally archaeological findings, looted or acquired items etc.) chosen among millions according to the ³message² one wants want to transmit.
That means that excavation and museum work independently each other. One can not dig and look for findings with the design of an exhibition in mind: the selection of the findings could be affected (many examples of ancient material culture have been ignored during the excavation because they are not artifacts, not good for the exhibition of a prestigious museum); and at the same time it is not correct to design a space (the museum) only because of the finding of something (see the Pergamon).
So, I was wondering how to proceed in the ³excavation², which almost always aims at reconstructing an historical, human and environmental context of a specific area by mean of ³object² and, where possible, writings. Do we think to ³dig² in the West or in the East? And, are we sure to build a museum of the west, made by westerns but located in the east? We don¹t have in the western countries such experience, I mean an oriental museum made by orientals. From this point of view it is a very non-orientalistic operation even thought it could seems the opposite.

At 11:37pm on August 6, 2008, KAYA said…: gabriella. could you post the feedback you gave me on the museum (your critical questions) here as well...?
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kaya

At 4:04pm on August 6, 2008, Manuela Scebba said…: hey gabry!!! i found u...come stai? how r u? kifek?
i hope to see u as soon as possible...i will be in sham the 29 of august. And u? where r u? sicily?
bosa
PS: strange to write in english to a sicilian friend!!!