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- Title
CREATING MAMI WATA: An Interactive, Sensory Exhibition.
- Authors
Drewal, Henry John
- Abstract
In Africa and its diasporas, call and response is an enduring and widespread interactive performance tradition. To encourage such interactive, dialogic activity between audiences and objects in a museum, as guest curator of Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas I devised a number of exhibition strategies to create an exhibition as interactive and multisensorial as possible, using a theoretical and methodological approach I term sensiotics. This essay details various interactive dimensions and the importance of sensory experience, including notions of 're-creation,' 're-membering,' and 're-presentation,' and the challenges and objectives of this effort to engage and enlighten audiences.
- Subjects
AFRICA; DIASPORA; MAMI Wata (African deity); WATER spirits; CULTURAL studies; UNIVERSITY of East Anglia; EXHIBITIONS
- Publication
Museum Anthropology, 2012, Vol 35, Issue 1, p49
- ISSN
0892-8339
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1548-1379.2012.01121.x