Bucharest Biennale 2010

LISTENING POST

NARRATIVE SPACES, CONTEMPORARY ARTAND THE SHAPING OF

YOUTH IDENTITIES

WHAT

WHY

HOW

Göran Björnberg (M. Phil.)Head of Tour Production and PedagogicsSwedish Travelling Exhibitions

goran.bjornberg@riksutstallningar.se

WHO

Swedish Travelling Exhibitions

Established 1965

Social and

geographical

equality.

National agency

Main target today to develop

the exhibition media

Swedish Travelling Exhibitions

Swedish Travelling Exhibitions

Produces travelling

exhibitions and educations on

exhibition media

Contemporary Art

Swedish Travelling Exhibitions

Children & Youth

Swedish Travelling Exhibitions

FRAMEWORK

1. A pedagogical perspective

2. Narrative spaces

3. The Exhibition

4. Youth – Who are they? 5. Two examples

1. A pedagogical perspective

Socio-cultural perspective

Every function in the child´s cultural development appears twice:

first on the social level and later on the individual level:

first between people (interpsychological)

then inside the child (intrapsychological).

Vygotskij

The exhibitionis a situated

practice.

Zone of proximal

development

The situated practice is by nature social

Languages as

mediating resources

VygotskijMeaning - sense

Achieving knowledge has shifted from teaching to learning &

from a teacher-centered process to a student-centered!

Learning – Instruction paradox

• There is a correct body of knowledge for a teacher to

communicate to a student/learner

• a hierarchical architecture of facts and ideas

We need to follow!

This means weneed to focus on the visitor!

And the visitor as a

participator!!

The visitor as a consumer and as a producer

=Exhibition 2.0

2. Narrative spaces

Narrative constitutes

reality

Good art embodies our story and does not remind us of our story

Jerome Bruner

The Narrative Space

A representation

of ART

THE EXHIBITION

THE VISITOR

Experiences, Interpretation,Meaning making

The Curator´s interpretationA Statement

THE SOCIETY

Discourse, Politics, Topical subjects

THE SPACE

The Museum, the Gallery or whateverValues, History, Architecture, Communication

How do we experience?

Semioticlanguage

Disembodied VisualTextual

Intellectual

How do we experience?

Phenomenological (events)

Embodied Tactile

Emphatic

We learn by using our body

Perception is related to action

Space is experienced through movement

Objects are experienced through touch

Mind

Muriel Rukeyser“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”

Body World

Mind

Body

World

”The Dance of Agency”

Engagement

Agency The capacity to make a difference Giddens

Museums and galleries are important collective activities and must play a role within a lifelong

learning perspective.

3. The Exhibition

We have to understand the exhibition as a learning environment,

a social arena for knowledge construction

through active participation and collaboration

4. Youth – who are they?

In order to work with youth we must understand youth!

The MeWE Generation

New values&

mental styles

Individualism From We to MeOpportunities Maximize!Identities Homo zappiens – zapping between

values, identities and placesTreasures It´s all about relationshipsTechnology Keeping the herd togetherWork Opportunity vehicle & coffee shop

diversionConsumption Self-realization & Identity experimentsGender The new amazons and their humble

servants

The future now!

The MeWE Generation

People narrativize their experience of the world and of their own role in it.

(Bruner)

5. Two Examples

DRAWING ON THE INDIVIDUAL

IN THE COLLECTIVE

MeWe

The Collective

Presentation

Deconstruction

Individual entrances

The Individual

Personal reflection (not

private!)

Reconstruction

Statements, Representation

The Collective

Presentations

LISTENING POST

Listening Post

The CollectivePresentation of the work

Watch it, listen to it, experience it

The IndividualPersonal reflection

Who are you? I am ….

The CollectivePresentations

What do we see?Discuss

DeconstructionIndividual entrances

What does it mean to you?, narrative, emotions,

memories, experiences

ReconstructionStatements,

RepresentationPaper, drawings, mobile

phones, computers

Cecilia Parsberg / Rinkeby, Stockholm What would you like to ask someone who has more power than you?

Why do you have to obey grown ups?

Why are other countries poorer?

If you have power why don´t you use it for something good which can be good for society?

Why am I?

Good that you want to listen there is almost noone who cares about what we think

WORKING CLASS HERO (Candice

Breitz)

What is an idol?What´s the relation between

a fan and an idol?What´s the role of

popular music in the society

SPONTANOUS TALKS

Meta-reflectionEmotions

How did she do it?Why do you think it was done in this way? What does she want to say?What feelings did you get?

Which artist would you choose?Which song?Why? Waht would you like to say?

THE ARTIST´S WORK

NarrativizingEmotions

Acknowledgements

Some of the pictures in this slide show where taken from Flickr and the Creative Commons.I therefor whish to thank;

Wetwebwork VictoriapeckhamFrozenchipmunk Ricardo martinsScarlet green Bill HRKevin Dooley MilgrammerJ Lord and …. Leo Green

Thank you!

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