Exhibition Experiments is a lively collection that considers experiments with museological form that challenge our understanding of - and experience with - museums. Explores examples of museum experimentalism in light of cutting-edge museum theory Draws on a range of global and topical examples, including museum experimentation, exhibitionary forms, the fate of conventional notions of object and representation, and the impact of these changes Brings together an international group of art historians, anthropologists, and sociologists to question traditional disciplinary boundaries Considers the impact of technology on the museum spacetackles a range of examples of experimentalism from many different countries, including Australia, Austria, Germany, Israel, Luxembourg, Sweden, the UK and the US Examines the changes and challenging new possibilities facing museum studies
Table of Contents. 1. Experiments in Exhibition, Ethnography, Art and Science. Paul Basu and Sharon Macdonald. 2. Legibility and Affect: Museums as New Media. Michelle Henning. 3. The Labrynthine Aesthetic in Contemporary Museum Design. Paul Basu. 4. Exhibition as Film. Mieke Bal. 5. Experimenting with Representation: Iconoclash! and Making Things Public. Peter Weibel and Bruno Latour. 6. Walking on a Story Board, Performing Shared Incompetence. Exhibiting Science in the Public Realm. Xperiment! - Bernd Kraeftner, Judith Kroell, and Isabel Warner. 7. From Capital to Enthusiasm: an Exhibitionary Practice. Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska. 8. The Politics of Display. Ann-Sofi Siden's WARTE MAL!, Art History and Social Documentary. A seminar with Laura Bear, Clare Carolin, Griselda Pollock and Ann-Sofi Siden. Edited by Clare Carolin and Cathy Haynes. 9. From Exhibiting to Installing Ethnography: Experiments at the Museum of Anthropology of the University of Coimbra (Portugal) 1999-2005. Nuno Porto. 10. Raising Specters: Welcoming Hybrid Phantoms at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. Anne Lorimer. 11. Exposing Expo: exhibition entrepreneurship and experimental reflexivity in late modernity. Alexa Farber
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