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"[...] Humanity installs each of its violences in a system of
rules and thus proceeds from domination to domination".
MOMS
is trying, in an area of difficult access which is frequently
ignored, to serve as a critical apparatus of the very specialisation
of power, having chosen as a preferred target its most important
instrument: bellicose practice and its ramifications. It is certain
that, at the same time, it has become a critique of the museum
and, from a wider perspective, of art itself, in terms of the
system (galleries, museums, specialised publications etc.) that
it generates. MOMS, more than a museum of the theory and practice
of war, is a museum of power strategy.
This
broad and rather ambiguous definition of its sphere of activity,
enables it to be as mobile as the strategies of domination themselves.
In spite of the rather pompous name, MOMS is characterised precisely
by a denial of the construction of linear narratives or totalistic
concepts. One possible source of resistance to the linear construction
established by the tyranny of major events is the rediscovery
of text. This project is intended to combine, in a somewhat contradictory
fashion, the traditional museological qualities normally associated
with the act of collecting, indexing and manipulating, with the
potentially explosive effect of an archive entirely open to contributions.
For this purpose, two hybrid forums will be created - one physical
and installed in a public place in Manchester, the other virtual
and located somewhere in the Ether of hypertext. They will both
be presented as embryos of a revolutionised MOMS. The first will
act essentially as a free distributor of information. The second
will be an open repository for contributions. Given the institutional
nature of MOMS, any one of these contributions will instantly
attain the status of museum piece.
For
more information on The Museum of Modern Strategy see:
http://www.virose.pt/moms
See
also the Bunker project:
http://www.virose.pt/ml/mlfoldereng/mlbunkermain.html
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