Macdonald / Basu Exhibition Experiments

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-69536-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: New Interventions in Art History

Exhibition Experiments is a lively collection that considersexperiments with museological form that challenge our understandingof - and experience with - museums.
* * Explores examples of museum experimentalism in light ofcutting-edge museum theory
* Draws on a range of global and topical examples, includingmuseum experimentation, exhibitionary forms, the fate ofconventional notions of 'object' and'representation', and the impact of these changes
* Brings together an international group of art historians,anthropologists, and sociologists to question traditionaldisciplinary boundaries
* Considers the impact of technology on the museum space
tackles a range of examples of experimentalism from many differentcountries, including Australia, Austria, Germany, Israel,Luxembourg, Sweden, the UK and the US
* Examines the changes and challenging new possibilities facingmuseum studies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Macdonald, Sharon

Basu, Paul

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents.
1. Experiments in Exhibition, Ethnography, Art and Science.
Paul Basu and Sharon Macdonald.
2. Legibility and Affect: Museums as New Media.
Michelle Henning.
3. The Labrynthine Aesthetic in Contemporary Museum Design.
Paul Basu.
4. Exhibition as Film.
Mieke Bal.
5. Experimenting with Representation: Iconoclash! and MakingThings Public.
Peter Weibel and Bruno Latour.
6. Walking on a Story Board, Performing Shared Incompetence.Exhibiting "Science" in the Public Realm.
Xperiment! - Bernd Kraeftner, Judith Kroell, and IsabelWarner.
7. From Capital to Enthusiasm: an Exhibitionary Practice.
Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska.
8. The Politics of Display. Ann-Sofi Sidén's WARTEMAL!, Art History and Social Documentary.
A seminar with Laura Bear, Clare Carolin, Griselda Pollock andAnn-Sofi Sidén. Edited by Clare Carolin and Cathy Haynes.
9. From Exhibiting to Installing Ethnography: Experiments at theMuseum of Anthropology of the University of Coimbra (Portugal)1999-2005.
Nuno Porto.
10. Raising Specters: Welcoming Hybrid Phantoms atChicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
Anne Lorimer.
11. Exposing Expo: exhibition entrepreneurship and experimentalreflexivity in late modernity.
Alexa Färber

Über Autor(innen)

Sharon Macdonald is Professor of Social Anthropology at theUniversity of Manchester. She is author of Behind the Scenes atthe Science Museum (2002), and editor of A Companion toMuseum Studies (Blackwell 2006) and Theorizing Museums(with G. Fyfe, Blackwell 1996).
Paul Basu is Lecturer in Anthropology at the Universityof Sussex. An active exhibition experimenter, he is author ofHighland Homecomings (2007).