Performing witnessing
Dramatic engagement, trauma and museum installations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15080737 |
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| Authors | Erika Hughes (0000-0001-5120-7317, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 274-281 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research in Drama Education The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9783 • E-ISSN: 1470-112X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569783.2018.1441709 |
| OpenAlex | W2796585264 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
This article offers a discussion of two interactive museum installations, ‘Remembering the Children: Daniel’s Story’ at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, and the main exhibit at the Humanity House Museum in the Hague, Netherlands. Both are examples of what I term self-guided dramas, taking the viewer/participant on an interactive journey through which they will experience a story or event that follows a dramatic narrative structure. These exhibits take as their subject the experiences and perspective of a protagonist forced into refugee status and turn the act of witnessing into a performative engagement for the museumgoer
Art · Art history · Veterinary medicine · Art Education and Development · Art Therapy and Mental Health · Engineering · Mathematics · Medicine · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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