The Future Contemporary

Inquiries into Visual, Performing, and Media Arts

Moving Spaces

Enacting Dance, Performance, and the Digital in the Museum

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open access | peer reviewed
    edited by
  • Susanne Franco - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
  • Gabriella Giannachi - University of Exeter, UK - 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 Augmented and mixed reality • Difficult heritage • Danish colonialism • Activation • Virtual • Decoloniality • Digital • Performance • The public • Venice • Activism • Jeannaette Ehlers • Museum • African-heritage dance • Museumised space • Choreography • Dance in the museum • Dance and performance in the museum • Black dance • Black Commons • Participatory Art • New media art • Marseille • Colonial legacies • Documentation • Address • Community • Value • Creolisation • Re-enactment • Afrofuturism • Afropessimism • Conservation • Aesthetic subjectivity • Deep space • Archive • Situation • Presence

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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