The changing nature of visitation to the art museum.
Natalia Radywyl, PhD Candidate, Media Communications Program (The Australian Centre)
I'll draw from empirical research undertaken at The Australian Centre for the Moving Image to document how visitor interaction with moving image art represents significant shifts in the contemporary relationships between art institution, artwork and visitor. I'll also consider how the museum has become a unique site for the mediation of new forms of knowledge-based and social literacy, where deeply immersive and powerfully aesthetic experiences can heighten visitors’ sense of agency both within and beyond the museum.
5 comments:
I am quite interested in how your positioning art as a democratic experience. I think this is particularly relevant to moving image and interactive work as it situates itself in a more reflexive discourse.
I wrote a paper on a similar subject. It is focused on a notion of cooperation in art, between the artwork and audience, in order to socially produce meaning. If your interested, I would be happy to email it to you. :)
This idea of how place, in all its forms, causes response is really interesting, it would be good to develop an ad hoc conversation on it, this places seems good.
Alex, please send the paper to me too
I must warn you that the paper is mostly about my own work. :P
I have formatted it for the web here:
Polyopticon.org and the Drawing Program
(Let me know if there is any issues ... it has not been tested with browsers other than Firefox 2 and IE6.)
hi alex and roger,
sorry for the much delayed reply, phd 's been a little hectic. alex - thanks for the comment, and i'll def have a look over your paper when i get a chance.
i'm not so sure that i intended to position my discussion around ideas of democracy, actually, i don't think that the kinds of art experiences i was describing are necessarily democratic. what i had been trying to suggest is that there's definitely a potential for new forms of agency within environments which cultivate a sense of stillness, of awareness... and, when looking at my empirical research, the kinds of 'agency' being described exceed the terms of democracy, they're about something deeper, more innate... perhaps more subjective than democracy allows (!)
and yes, roger - i think that ideas of place are especially interesting right now. it seems like there are all sorts of ways in which materiality, presence, slowness are becoming absorbed into new practices and discourses. i'm all for some ad hoc conversations on the topic
Hey Talia,
Good to see you back. Hope that PhD thing is traveling well. :)
I think I misunderstood your intention. By 'agency' do you mean it as a freedom in moral choices, free will, Hegelian human agency or some other definition?
My interests are similar, but we seem to be looking at different parts of the beast.
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