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- Title
Objects, Words, and Bodies in Space: Bringing Materiality into Cultural Analysis.
- Authors
Griswold, Wendy; Mangione, Gemma; McDonnell, Terence E.
- Abstract
What can actor-network theory’s approach to analyzing objects offer to cultural sociology? To answer this question we ask a more specific one: How does materiality affect people’s experience of art in a museum exhibition? Research at two museums suggests that non-human agents—object and words—interact with human bodies to choreograph the art encounter. This process works through interactions between two processes of emplacement: physical position and cognitive location. Position guides location in the process of meaning-making, a relationship mediated by three mechanisms: distance, legibility, and orientation.
- Subjects
CULTURAL studies; ACTOR-network theory; MUSEUM exhibits; CONCEPTUAL art; NAUMAN, Bruce, 1941-; MATERIALITY &; art; SUBJECTIVITY in art
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 2013, Vol 36, Issue 4, p343
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11133-013-9264-6