Monday, November 5, 2012

Prompt: Course Blog 20: Documenting the Cultural Performance of the Presidential Election

On Tuesday (tomorrow) we would like you to offer documentation of Election Day in whatever format(s) appeal to you. We have taken it as a shared perception that there is something both heightened and performed--and perhaps theatrical--about the way we conduct ourselves on this occasion, though we will certainly examine this presumption in more depth in class on the 13th.

By Sunday, November 11th at midnight, please post your evidence of the day, along with an account of how you might imagine curating or exhibiting this information in a History Center or Museum (you can decide the particular focus of the institution). Let our readings and your experience in Indianapolis inform what you think might be the most lively, effective, educational, and meaningful way(s) of both preserving this moment and bringing it across.

Note: since this is a thought experiment, money is no object.


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