Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Art -
Miscellaneous, grade: Distinction, Kingston University London
(Kingston University London, in Partnership with the Design Museum,
London, U.K.), course: MA Curating Contemporary Design, language:
English, abstract: Abstract - In the frontier of the exhibition
scene, a significant phenomenon is observed that a contemporary
artistic staging practice, called scenography, has grew out from
the theatre context and keeps expanding its influence in the
exhibition context in recent time. Scenography has been acting as a
transformative force to reform the traditional exhibitionary
complex, and consequently, this has led to an unprecedented
intersection where scenography meets contemporary curating, which
further informs a radical ideological shift. This paper aims to
exploit a new land of discussion to look into this intersection
between scenographic practice and contemporary curating, its
mergence and the subsequent revolution it has caused. By seeing
museums and exhibition spaces as metaphorical stages, it
fundamentally reconfigures the infrastructure of curating
practices, in terms of a shift in authorship, architectural
embodiment of ideas, field of experience, layered narrative,
dramaturgy and the hybrid expressions of new media. Three case
studies will demonstrate scenography's wide-ranged capacities and
various methodologies in dealing with contemporary issues. Cases
include: BMW Museum (Reopened in 2008), Cultures of the World
(Opened in 2010) and Leonardo's Last Supper: A Vision by Peter
Greenaway (2008, 2010). Respectively, they prove scenography's
overarching influence of acting as a brandscape, as a site of
cultural mediation and as interference and discourse. The whole
discussion cuts through major discourses in the field, both
responding to the increasing awareness of the notion of staging
experiences in the rise of experience economy, and the expanding
notion of curating, in parallel.
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