Larger Than Memory Digital Experience

BY ERIN JOYCE

FINE ARTS CURATOR

In September 2020, the Heard Museum opened its largest contemporary art exhibition to date, Larger Than Memory: Contemporary Art From Indigenous North America.

To make the exhibition content more widely accessible because many were unable to view the exhibition in person, the Heard Museum is creating a digital experience of Larger Than Memory, which will be available for free at heard.org. Although the digital experience cannot replace the physical experience of actually viewing the exhibition in person, it will provide content and access to the ideas and themes represented through the art that was included. This digital initiative is not meant to replicate or serve as a standin for the in-person exhibition that was Larger Than Memory, but it can act as a digital augmentation of the exhibition to allow the community to experience the artworks and themes from the comfort and safety of home.

The digital project is planned to launch to audiences in February and will continue through August. It will feature a suite of installation images, video documentation by exhibition artist Steven J. Yazzie, and didactic materials that were reviewed and approved by the artists for inclusion in the exhibition.

Larger Than Memory, installation view, Heard Museum, 2020. Platt Photography.