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- Title
A Thousand Concepts and the Participating Body: Concept Play Workshops at Kunsthall 3,14.
- Authors
Kukkonen, Heidi Marjaana
- Abstract
Participation has become the keyword in museum and gallery education during the past decades. However, the focus on participation might contain neoliberalist tendencies, creating more entertainment and consumerism than art. In this study based on practice-based research, I explore a gallery educational method to mediate contemporary art to primary and high school students inspired by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's process philosophy and new materialist theory–practice. What kind of roles can the method of Concept Play Workshop create for the participating body and how can it challenge neoliberal tendencies in museum and gallery education? In the workshops, children and young people create philosophical concepts with contemporary art, dialogue-based practices and artistic experiments in the exhibition space of Kunsthall 3,14 in Bergen, Norway. I argue that the method can create philosophizing, critical, uncomfortable, resting, dictatorial and protesting bodies. Representational logic becomes challenged, and discomfort and resistance become educational potential. The method creates multiple and overlapping roles for the participating body, shifting the focus towards multiplicities instead of the passive/active binary. Humans are not the only participating bodies, but attention is given to agential matter, contesting human-centeredness. The study is a contribution to the field of post-approaches in gallery and museum education.
- Subjects
MUSEUM studies; 21ST century art; HIGH school students; NEOLIBERALISM; CONSUMERISM
- Publication
Humanities (2076-0787), 2024, Vol 13, Issue 1, p11
- ISSN
2076-0787
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/h13010011