These days we meet and talk in underground chambers, beneath the ruins of our former institutions; all we have left are our human resources…[C]atastrophes do not mean the end of the human needs embodied by museums, even if we do not use that name. What matters is collective memory: not only the memories of experts or museum guards but the public and the fire brigades.
– Zdenka Badovinac ‘My Post-Catastrophic Glossary’, in Art and its Worlds (Afterall: London, 2021) 404-419.
