Creating Mami Wata
An Interactive, Sensory Exhibition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2278006 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Henry John Drewal (University of Wisconsin–Madison) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-57 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Museum Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0892-8339 • E-ISSN: 1548-1379 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1548-1379.2012.01121.x |
| OpenAlex | W2107992292 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 3 |
In Africa and its diasporas, call and response is an enduring and widespread interactive performance tradition. To encourage such interactive, dialogic activity between audiences and objects in a museum, as guest curator of Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas I devised a number of exhibition strategies to create an exhibition as interactive and multisensorial as possible, using a theoretical and methodological approach I term sensiotics. This essay details various interactive dimensions and the importance of sensory experience, including notions of "re-creation," "re-membering," and "re-presentation," and the challenges and objectives of this effort to engage and enlighten audiences
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2024 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |