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SNAKES & LADDERS DEMO: Yasmin Khan invites Subhadra Das to play a game of Snakes & Ladders with a twist. The classic board game is brought to life with a bespoke deck of playing cards.

With each dice roll, they discuss controversies that have inspired MOTL’s six pillars of truth-telling, a co-created diagnostic tool summarised as WISDOM: 

  1. Whose Voice, 2) Information Integrity, 3) Source, 4) Design, 5) Object story and 6) Museum context.

This episode can be used as an interactive audio guide to play the Snakes & Ladders game featured at the end of the Muse-Zine. Have fun!

#Collections #Provenance #Ethics #Power #Bias #Orientalism

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

  1. Indian origins of Snakes & Ladders  

  2. WISDOM manifesto

  3. Game commences 

  4. Subhadra highlights some juicy case-studies and shares ideas for the blank cards 

Hosted by @YasminCurates in conversation with @Sub_das (Insta)/ @littlegaudy (X). 

Do you believe everything you see in museums? Share your thoughts and museum photos via #MuseumTruthLies.

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CREDITS: Host, scriptwriter and editor, Yasmin Khan; Executive Producer, Marie Horner; Composer, Helen A. Wilson; Sound Design, Lucy Dearlove (supported by Lucia Scazzoccio).

Funding partners: Art South Asia Project and ZVM Rangoonwala Foundation

Recommended resources
MOTL Muse-Zine https://muse-zine.xyz