ABSTRACT
This chapter features a dialogue between Sameer Farooq and Jared Stanley discussing the origins of their 2019 art exhibition Terma, Images from the Ear or Groin or Somewhere. The chapter discusses how the artists use the metaphor of terma as a means of investigating how museums and museological practice can provide a space for new kinds of excavation. This geological metaphor combines the artists’ interest in excavations of the imagination as well as history and material culture, exploring the opportunities presented by strategies of display of “excavated” materials. As part of this discussion, Farooq and Stanley discuss research into museological practice, questions of audience, and the ways in which text and object interact in the space of the museum.
