Exhibition Experiments
Published on 30. April 2008
272 pages
978-0-470-69536-4 (ISBN)
Description
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
Reviews / Votes
"A challenging and fascinating book that theorizesexhibitions as media for encounter, enactment, experience, and thecreation rather than the transmission of knowledge. It opens up awhole new way of thinking about the potential of galleries andmuseums. Essential reading." Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, University of Leicester "This scintillating collection offers the most originaltreatment yet of experiment as an appealing, provoking ideologythat has pulled together diverse critical approaches in the studyof modern culture. An absorbing read all the waythrough." George Marcus, University of California, Irvine "This book combines stimulating essays by establishedscholars who have pioneered research into exhibitionary practice,with exciting and innovative chapters by younger scholars. It willbe of equal relevance to museum professionals and the audiences whoparticipate in the museum experience." Howard Morphy, Australian National UniversityMore details
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Persons
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).
Content
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
