Prepojeno z roza in modro: Videti nevidno patriarhijo s feminističnim muzejskim hekom

In response to calls by feminist cultural theorists to develop means to unmask patriarchy, the system of power that lies at the heart of museums that maintain problematic hierarchical binaries of masculinity and femininity, we designed the Feminist Museum Hack. The Hack draws on theories of representation, feminist critical discourse analysis and visual methodologies/literacy to operate as a critical and creative practice that can be adapted to any museum context. The primary aim of the Hack – a methodology and pedagogy – is to provide a lens through which adults can see the unseen of patriarchy and how it hides so cleverly in plain sight in the museum’s practices of representation. In this article, we use examples of how we have used the Hack as researchers and educators in various museum settings to expose, decode and disrupt the hegemonic gendered messages in the images, displays, curatorial statements, labels and even in object placement and stagecrafting. We also show how the Hack functions as a practice of ‘direct agency’, a means to re-write and engage with museum narratives. We argue that the Hack is an important and innovative practice because it turns museums into spaces of ‘pedagogic possibility’ – sites where we can learn new strategies of feminist opposition to counter the male gaze and its ability to define women’s lives.Kot odgovor na poziv feministični kulturni teoriji, naj razvije strategije razkrinkanja patriarhije, sistema moči v srcu muzejev, ki ohranjajo problematične hierarhične binarije moškosti in ženskosti, smo oblikovale feministični muzejski hek. Ta temelji na teorijah predstav, feministični kritični diskurzivni analizi in vizualni metodologiji/pismenosti ter operira kot kritična in kreativna praksa, ki je lahko prirejena glede na muzejski kontekst. Osrednji cilj heka – metodologije in pedagogike – je omogočiti uporabo leče, skozi katero lahko odrasli vidijo nevidno patriarhalno in kako se patriarhija premeteno skriva v muzejskih praksah. V članku predstavljamo primere rabe heka, ki smo ga kot raziskovalke in pedagoginje uporabile v različnih muzejskih okoljih, da razkrinkamo, dekodiramo in zmotimo hegemonično ospoljena sporočila v podobah, razstavah, kuratorskih izjavah, oznakah in celo v postavitvah objektov. Pokažemo tudi, kako hek funkcionira kot praksa neposrednega delovanja, načina vnovičnega zapisa in vpletenosti v muzejske pripovedi. Zagovarjamo tezo, da je hek pomembna in inovativna praksa, saj spreminja muzeje v prostore »pedagoških možnosti« – prostore, kjer se lahko naučimo novih strategij feminističnega nasprotovanja, ki se lahko upre »moškemu pogledu« in njegovi sposobnosti, da definira ženska življenja