Impressing and Expressing

In this mini-podcast, Tristram Riley-Smith explores the tangible and intangible connections between nine objects from the University of Cambridge Museums. You can view all the objects here: www.museums.cam.ac.uk/museumremix Tristram writes, "You inspired me to think about the way objects emerge into the world, and that relationship between objectivity and subjectivity, the unintentional and the intentional, impression and expression. This reflection ultimately led me to recognise the important role of the curator as a knowledge-broker (when material culture's equivalent to the Third Law of Thermodynamics deprives objects of meaning, in a remorseless passage from expression/significance to impression/insignificance). Ideally, museums should do whatever is possible to communicate and celebrate what can be multifaceted meanings associated with these objects." This track is part of the Museum Remix: Unheard project. Find out more at www.museums.cam.ac.uk/museumremix