Museum encounters
A Choreography of Visitors' Bodies in Interaction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5717899 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sophia Diamantopoulou (0000-0001-8564-8743, UCL Institute of Education, London, UK, corresponding author), Dimitra Christidou (0000-0002-9965-2871, Department of Computer Science, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gløshaugen, Norway) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 344-361 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Museum Management and Curatorship (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-7775 • E-ISSN: 1872-9185 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09647775.2019.1585279 |
| OpenAlex | W2920836519 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 29 |
By viewing the museum experience as inextricably linked to an interactive nexus of bodies and objects arranged in the museum space, this paper foregrounds the significance of movement in the shaping of museum encounters. Informed by the fields of dance, symbolic interactionism and multimodal social semiotics, it introduces a conceptualisation of visitors’ movement as choreography unfolding either in compliance with the museum ‘script’ (scripted choreographies), or in response to prompts from other visitors sharing the same space (improvised choreographies). Attending to visitors’ positioning and alignment as key resources of movement, the analysis of video data from two London galleries illustrates how visitors oscillate between performing ‘scripted choreographies’ and ‘improvised choreographies’ through shifts in positioning and alignment, while being spectators of other visitors’ choreographies. Both kinds of choreographies are continuously shaped in interaction with the ‘scripted’ museum stage and other visitors’ ‘scripted’ and ‘improvised choreographies’
Aesthetics · Art · Choreography · Dance · Interactionism · Semiotics · Sociology · Symbolic interactionism · Visual arts · Anthropology · Computer Science · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Human Motion and Animation · Museums and Cultural Heritage
Multimodality
Performance Studies
Civilizing Rituals
Art on the move
Behavior in Public Places
Posing the Question
Staging Meaning
Crafting participation
The museum foyer as a transformative space of communication
Phenomenology of Perception
Movement in museums
Seeing and Being Seen
Emergent focused interactions in public places
The Neglected Situation
Action, experience, communication
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |