Type: | Article | Title: | Spacing: Following negotiations in the process of exhibition dismantling | Authors: | Hansmann, Sabine | Issue Date: | 24-Apr-2024 | Keywords: | Museum practice; space; actor-network theory; spatial turn; architecture | Abstract: | This paper is concerned with an Actor-Network Theory approach to museum space. It builds upon qualitative research at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, a museum and educational building in Norwich, England. Following the people who work with the building in the process of dismantling an exhibition, I examine the negotiations that emerge when a problem occurs with the handling of a specific artwork. Drawing on the concept of spacing by Bruno Latour, this paper highlights the multiplicity and complexity inherent in museum practices. I argue that space is not contained inside the building but is done with the building, exhibition objects, handling instructions, surfaces, and people. Analyzing this process of spacing, then, the work towardsand negotiation of stability and flux, of homogeneity and heterogeneity inherent to museum spaces become visible which allows for a rich and nuanced understanding of the relationship between people and physical stuff. |
Subject Class (DDC): | 720: Architektur | HCU-Faculty: | Architektur, Raum und Gesellschaft | Journal or Series Name: | Museum & Society | Volume: | 22 | Issue: | 1 | Start page: | 94 | End page: | 109 | Publisher: | University of Leicester Open Journals | ISSN: | 1479-8360 | Publisher DOI: | 10.29311/mas.v22i1.4370 | URN (Citation Link): | urn:nbn:de:gbv:1373-repos-13064 | Directlink: | https://repos.hcu-hamburg.de/handle/hcu/1018 | Language: | English | Creative Commons License: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
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