Exhibition Experiments is a lively collection that considers experiments with museological form that challenge our understanding of - and experience with - museums.
- Explores examples of museum experimentalism in light of cutting-edge museum theory
- Draws on a range of global and topical examples, including museum experimentation, exhibitionary forms, the fate of conventional notions of ‘object’ and ‘representation’, and the impact of these changes
- Brings together an international group of art historians, anthropologists, and sociologists to question traditional disciplinary boundaries
- Considers the impact of technology on the museum space
tackles a range of examples of experimentalism from many different countries, including Australia, Austria, Germany, Israel, Luxembourg, Sweden, the UK and the US
- Examines the changes and challenging new possibilities facing museum studies
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 Making Things 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 Isabel Warner.
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