Moving Out: Museums, Mobility, and Urban Spaces

Autor: Mark W. Rectanus
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: The International Handbooks of Museum Studies
DOI: 10.1002/9781118829059.wbihms323
Popis: Recent exhibition practices, curatorial initiatives, and collaborative projects indicate that contemporary museums are increasingly “moving out” of the conceptual and physical spaces of the museum. This move is not only a result of projects that question the fixity of museum boundaries, for example, “where the museum ends and the outside world begins,” but it also reflects diverse forms of mobility (including mobile media) that foreground the museum as a portal for experience. The implications of these processes that are shaping notions of “the mobile museum” are wide-ranging and include: (1) the increasing integration of museums and exhibitions into urban cultural zones; (2) projects that engage audiences in border zones outside the museum; (3) collaborations with artists and audiences that reference forms of social activism; (4) the museum's expanded role as a think tank, lab, or civic space; (5) projects that engage audiences in a reflection on the relations between art, culture, mobility, and locality in the contexts everyday life. The concept of a mobile mise-en-scene provides an analytical tool for understanding how diverse museum practices and sites for exhibition and display that cross physical and virtual boundaries create transdiscursive spaces for cultural meaning and experience. Keywords: corporate museums; cultural tourism; curating; exhibitions; globalization; mobile media; mobile mise-en-scene ; populism; social media
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