Disobedient Objects: Towards a Museum Insurgency.

Assembling a wide range of protest objects produced since the late 1970s, Disobedient Objects at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2014-15) aimed to present the expansive material culture of social movements from a global perspective while charting a 'people's history of art and design from below'. This article examines the critical intentions behind the exhibition, compares it to other recent large-scale exhibitions on activist art and situates it within a broader field of museum activism, demonstrating how it displayed not only a collection of disobedient objects but also a model for disobedient curating by directing institutional resources towards ongoing movements and campaigns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]