What are the Protocols of MOMA?
The Protocols of MOMA provide a conceptual framework that governs the creation of 3 types of MOMA Venues (the pop-up installations/structures that go out into the real world to engage communities with the arts and crafts that they house).
As the Museum of Moving Art is still in the early stages of its development and gestation, only MOMA I and MOMA II are currently under construction, while MOMA III (which is somewhat larger and more complex) is still in the research and development stage.
The following sections provide a brief introduction the 3 venue types, each with a link to a detailed page dedicated to each of them.
MOMA I
MOMA I takes the form of a "book sculpture". As the Museum of Moving Art is an evolving and participatory project, the protocols anticipate and allow for a series of such books.
The first one is currently under construction in Nambucca Heads, NSW, Australia and is being made by artist David Rose, in collaboration with fellow students and teachers at the TAFE NSW arts program held at The Youthie. It is called MOMA I (Vol 1), the second is being made privately by David and will be called MOMA I (Vol 2) - any subsequent iterations of MOMA I will be named (Vol 3... etc).
MOMA III
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How to visit a Venue
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How to go about making a Venue
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Venues are not venues in the conventional sense of the word, as in a location where people gather. Rather, MOMA's venues are made structures, installations and art-spaces that are taken to a location by a Curator in order to engage community members with the work and the artworks that it contains. They are mobile exhibition forms that are artworks in and of themselves.
As an example let's look at MOMA I, the first of the Museum of Movable Arts "Venues" and one that is currently under construction.