The museum as a creative practice

I’m Sid, (they/them) and I founded the temporal anomaly museum. The museum offers workshops, community co-production, art making and nature connection to support the shedding of systems that no longer serve us and our planet. The museum collection is of the moments where people can see clearly to decolonial and regenerative futures.

What is a temporal anomaly?

A disruption to the space time continuum. 

I first heard this term in Star Trek, a tv show that unearths more equitable futures using science fiction as its’ permission. When a temporal anomaly occurs in the show a character usually sees the same scene repeat or someone wakes up yesterday. It’s a glitch that offers a different way of thinking. Here, I’m using the term temporal anomaly to name the moments where you see clearly to an alternative future. When you look at a system, institution, story, outfit (!) and think, I don’t have to do this the way it’s always been done. The purpose of the temporal anomaly museum is designing moments of clarity that enable wider cultural shifts. 

But is it a museum?

I think so. Museum comes from the Greek word ‘Mouseion’, a seat with the muses, where a community would gather under the protection of the nine muses to explore, critique and celebrate the arts, sciences and philosophies that shaped their culture. This is the definition I’ll be using.

I have been searching for ways to describe my creative practice which spans facilitation, workshop design, community building, systems thinking, painting, writing, ceramics, research, cob and consultancy. I’m trialling the museum as a creative practice.