The Museum Effect
Gazing from Object to Performance in the Contemporary Cultural-History Museum
Staging Meaning
Performance in the Modern Museum
The Technocratic Museum
Art in the Age of Networked Communication
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I selected the museum as my object of investigation because it illuminates so well the political, performative, and individual aspects of culture effect. Each of these three texts argues that the museum acquires social authority by controlling ways of seeing. The first essay offers an historical investigation of the evolution of modern museum practice by theorizing three primary typologies of display: legislative, interpretive, and performative. The second builds on the framework of the first, and further develops the notion that the museum is a space of social performance, and always has been. The third essay examines the conditioning of object value in the museum, and proposes a new interactive paradigm for the museum experience.