Moving Spaces
Enacting Dance, Performance, and the Digital in the Museum
open access | peer reviewed
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edited by
- Susanne Franco - Ca' Foscari University of Venice - email
- Gabriella Giannachi - University of Exeter - email
Abstract
This collection of essays investigates some of the theories and concepts related to the burgeoning presence of dance and performance in the museum. This surge has led to significant revisions of the roles and functions that museums currently play in society. The authors provide key analyses on why and how museums are changing by looking into participatory practices and decolonisation processes, the shifting relationship with the visitor/spectator, the introduction of digital practices in collection making and museum curation, and the creation of increasingly complex documentation practices. The tasks designed by artists who are involved in the European project Dancing Museums. The Democracy of Beings (2018-21) respond to the essays by suggesting a series of body-mind practices that readers could perform between the various chapters to experience how theory may affect their bodies.
Keywords Activism • Digital • Creolisation • Jeannaette Ehlers • Situation • Danish colonialism • Aesthetic subjectivity • Archive • Activation • Deep space • Dance in the museum • Community • Augmented and mixed reality • Participatory Art • Colonial legacies • Dance and performance in the museum • African-heritage dance • Presence • Conservation • The public • Decoloniality • Venice • Difficult heritage • Virtual • Afrofuturism • Address • Choreography • Re-enactment • Performance • Black Commons • Marseille • Black dance • Afropessimism • Museumised space • Documentation • New media art • Museum • Value
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-534-6 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-534-6 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-535-3 | Number of pages 156 | Dimensions 17x25.5cm | Published Sept. 16, 2021 | Language en
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