1st Edition

Museums as Assemblage Analysing dynamic museum practice

By Jasmin Pfefferkorn Copyright 2024
126 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

126 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

126 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Museums as Assemblage offers a new way of thinking about the dynamism of art museums. Using the concept of assemblage, this book unpacks relations between visitors, artists, museum staff, and the museum’s nonhuman components, providing an analytical framework that celebrates the complexity of museums today. It takes the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Tasmania as its primary case... Read more

Introduction; 1. Contemporary Museum Practice: The Museum of Old and New Art; 2. Museums as Assemblage: Practice and Potential; 3. The Normative Museum: The authoritative voice of the museum and the visitor-as-spectator; 4. The Responsive Museum: Community and Constituents; 5. The Affective Museum: Atmospherics, aesthesis, and the sensorial’ 6. The Emergent Museum: Dynamic, hospitable, disruptive

Biography

Jasmin Pfefferkorn is a postdoctoral research fellow in The University of Melbourne’s School of Culture and Communication. Her research centres on museum studies, aesthetics, digital and computational cultures, media and communications, and visual culture. She is the co-founder of the research group CODED AESTHETICS and teaches master's students in global media communications and arts and cultural management.