Ian Wedde

Ian Wedde was born in 1946 in Blenheim, New Zealand, and has been a compulsive museum visitor since childhood. His two books of essays, How to be Nowhere (1995) and Making Ends Meet (2005) contain records of his critical work with museums and as an art critic and curator. Between 1994 and 2004 he was a member of the conceptual team at Te Papa. His novel The Viewing Platform (2006) was a satire of ‘official culture’. His book on the artist Bill Culbert, Bill Culbert: Making Light Work , was published in August 2009.

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Pleasing everybody - or not: museums and civic responsibility

As a self-confessed semi-professional transient in the museum world, Ian Wedde reminds us of the need for honest questioning about museums’ purpose, reflecting on his own early cross-cultural encounters in the Stephen Weil Memorial Lecture in Rotorua.
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