Documente Academic
Documente Profesional
Documente Cultură
Zofia Poska
8th December 2011
Topic
Theoretical framework: new museology and the concept of critical museum
Case: Exhibition Making Things Public. Atmospheres of Democracy, ZKM Karlsruhe, 2005 curators: Bruno Latour & Peter Weibel
Research Questions
Was Latours exhibition a materialization of critical museum concept?
Can Actor-network theory propose solutions to the problems faced by critical museology?
New Museology
roots in late 1960s artistic institutional critiques close relation with New Art History movement name - The New Museology, Peter Vergo, 1989
Main ideas
denaturalisation of an institution (museums as ideological constructions)
problematisation of artistic value analysis of a social, political and cultural context of museum practice
Philosophical issues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5s264AjaXI
From objects to things Problem of representation (political, scientific, artistic) Question of democratic assemblies
Exhibition Space
Is it a critical show?