She has collaborated on practice-led research with artists and curators from Australia , the UK , Singapore , the USA and Canada to explore how audiences , and even objects themselves , can generate new ways of organising exhibitions and museums .
Lizzie Muller edited an essay collection about these kinds of curatorial experiments , Curating Lively Objects : Exhibitions Beyond Disciplines , with Canadian collaborator Professor Caroline Seck Langill . The book , which was launched by Museums & Galleries NSW , presents diverse perspectives on exhibitions , including decolonial thinking , Indigenous knowledges , environmentalism , feminist critique and digital aesthetics .
Greater engagement between academic research , cultural practice and the public is vital for imagining new futures for museums . To support this engagement , Lizzie Muller co-founded the Sydney Culture Data Salon , supported by the Sydney Culture Network , that facilitates bi-monthly meetups for cultural workers to investigate the strategic power of cultural data .
Our collaboration Lizzie Muller collaborated with :
> Curators from the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia ( MCA ), the Powerhouse Museum and Campbelltown Arts Centre
> Practice-led researchers from SymbioticA at the University of
Western Australia ( UWA ) > Independent artists and curators from many countries > And Museums & Galleries NSW .
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Around the world museums are now striving to overturn the colonial inheritance of disciplinary divisions to reflect 21st century knowledge and experience . This demands radical change in all areas of museum practice , from collection and asset policy and management , to staff expertise , audience engagement and physical and digital infrastructure , says Lizzie Muller .
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Creating Impact @ UNSW Arts , Design & Architecture 21 .