Art as experience
embodied practices in museum education
Breaking the code of behaviour
To visit a museum in an active way you should be curious and use your imagination.
Exploring the museum is like traveling through time and space, it means you can move freely back and forth through all sorts of borders - between different cultures, for example, or between the real world and the world of imagination.
The workshop Art as experience considers museum galleries as a hypertext, a network of explorable links, a space for freedom to make connections between artworks, ideas and emotions, following what interests you more.
Discovering artworks (and the world) with new eyes.
Exploring requires movement.
The first movement is to open your eyes.
- What kind of knowledge should the experience of art aim to produce?
The journey starts from the desire to reconsider the format of the guided tour and the uniderectional transmission of knowledge.The main focus here is not the transmission of knowledge but the experience of the original. The live encounter with the artworks.
The experience of art is about us and our surronding, it cannot just be passively observed, but must be actively embodied.
Art is an aesthetic experience
The museum is the ideal space to make an aesthetic experience, the best place for a live and direct relationship with works of art.In the aesthetic experience we are engaged with all our senses (thus with our body), our emotions, our memories and our thoughts. It's an experience that involves one completely. Today we are used to living with our senses "anesthetized". We ‘see’ a lot of things but we can't observe them, we listen but can't hear, we are subjected to many stimuli, but we can't seem to pay attention.
Art is a relational experience
A work of art is born from the encounter between the object and its observer: “Art is a state of encounter” (Nicolas Bourriad)
Art can foster relationships in all directions. It's an encounter between objects / subjects / people / generations.
And above all art can foster the encounter between ways of seeing and ways of being.