{"id":49,"date":"2010-08-30T18:23:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T18:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2022-01-16T16:54:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T21:54:14","slug":"collecting-antioch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/?page_id=49","title":{"rendered":"Collecting Antioch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/antioch-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-371\" title=\"antioch 3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/antioch-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/antioch-3.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/antioch-3-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 1997 Ashford taught an undergraduate seminar on rethinking the museum at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Over a four-week period, the students <strong>Jesse Dew, Jonathan Dudley, Diana Heimbigner, Ben Leon, Jyl Sutherland, Clare Wildhack-Nolan, and Ethan Swan<\/strong> researched the effect of collecting and the archive and produced a series of installations. The first mimicked the natural history museum but reassigned specimens found in nature to absurd and fictional renditions of classification. After a field trip to the local mall they researched the difference between collecting and accumulation as driving forces in the formation of national fantasy. They then toured <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Antiochiana<\/span>, the college&#8217;s remarkable historical archive, as an example of how institutions represent specific constituencies through multiple lenses. From these and other experiences and exhibition was designed and produced: a collective representation of Yellow Springs and its inhabitants. For a complete description, syllabus and documentation see Ashford&#8217;s essay <em>The Exhibition as Artistic Medium<\/em>, downloadable\u00c2\u00a0here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/5.-The-Exhibition-as-an-Artistic-Medium.pdf\">_ (link)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the summer of 1997 Ashford taught an undergraduate seminar on rethinking the museum at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Over a four-week period, the students Jesse Dew, Jonathan Dudley, Diana Heimbigner, Ben Leon, Jyl Sutherland, Clare Wildhack-Nolan, and Ethan Swan researched the effect of collecting and the archive and produced a series of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":56,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dougashford.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}