The Future Contemporary

Inquiries into Visual, Performing, and Media Arts

Moving Spaces

Enacting Dance, Performance, and the Digital in the Museum

crossmark logo

open access | peer reviewed

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 Colonial legacies • Marseille • Aesthetic subjectivity • Black dance • Participatory Art • Value • Deep space • Danish colonialism • Museum • Virtual • Conservation • Creolisation • Documentation • Augmented and mixed reality • Presence • Difficult heritage • Museumised space • Choreography • Jeannaette Ehlers • African-heritage dance • Activism • Afrofuturism • Situation • Archive • Performance • Community • Black Commons • Venice • Activation • Decoloniality • Re-enactment • Address • Digital • New media art • Dance in the museum • The public • Afropessimism • Dance and performance in the museum

Thema codes GLZ • ATD • ATQ

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 | Numero pagine 156 | Dimensioni 17x25.5cm | Pubblicato 16 Settembre 2021 | Lingua en