Performance Art and Museum Space. Exploring their role as learning tool
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2018-03
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This research explores the use of performance art in museums and its effect in the learning process of a visitor. I focus on a particular age group of visitor, that of an adolescent, as they are inherently rebellious and hard to excite when it comes to museums. Within this context, I study three relationship-axes: a) performance art and museum exhibits, b) performance art and the learning process for adolescents, and, taking a step back, c) the difficulties of designing performance art in museums. I revisit existing literature, conduct a field study for FOUR use cases, analyse the results through an analysis tool that I have developed for this purpose, and record my personal experience from designing such a performance. The results suggest that the learning process in museums can be empowered by performance art only if it is designed specifically for the museum space where it plays and highlights the museum's content. Key for supporting the learning process among adolescents is to intertwine the performance with interactive parts in which the adolescent can participate using their experiential knowledge, and have a closing part where all the insights are put together in a framework and ask adolescents to reflect on them.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen