A Thousand Concepts and the Participating Body

Concept Play Workshops at Kunsthall 3,14

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20248098
AutoresHeidi Marjaana Kukkonen (Kunsthall 3,14, 5014 Bergen, Norway, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen13
Número1
Páginas11
Fecha de publicación2024-01-08
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHumanities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2076-0787 • E-ISSN: 2076-0787
EditorialMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/h13010011
OpenAlexW4390733548
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas33

Participation has become the keyword in museum and gallery education during the past decades. However, the focus on participation might contain neoliberalist tendencies, creating more entertainment and consumerism than art. In this study based on practice-based research, I explore a gallery educational method to mediate contemporary art to primary and high school students inspired by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s process philosophy and new materialist theory–practice. What kind of roles can the method of Concept Play Workshop create for the participating body and how can it challenge neoliberal tendencies in museum and gallery education? In the workshops, children and young people create philosophical concepts with contemporary art, dialogue-based practices and artistic experiments in the exhibition space of Kunsthall 3,14 in Bergen, Norway. I argue that the method can create philosophizing, critical, uncomfortable, resting, dictatorial and protesting bodies. Representational logic becomes challenged, and discomfort and resistance become educational potential. The method creates multiple and overlapping roles for the participating body, shifting the focus towards multiplicities instead of the passive/active binary. Humans are not the only participating bodies, but attention is given to agential matter, contesting human-centeredness. The study is a contribution to the field of post-approaches in gallery and museum education

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Consumerism · Contemporary art · Entertainment · Epistemology · Exhibition · Materialism · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · Art Education and Development · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy