#museumseating: The New Museum Arena
an exhibition examining how design and social convening have radically transformed the public sphere of a museum from a space to see art into an expansive new arena for social experiences.
Concept
Whether consuming coffee, playing records, reading books, sipping tea, sharing Thai, baking pizza or even worshipping, the museum experience has expanded over the past thirty years into a multiplicity of activities.
One could mark the beginning of this transformation with museum seating: a utilitarian form used to accommodate basic expectations for a seat while contemplating an object. Today the encounter with something beyond the art object is fueled by artists who combine art, design, and social assembly to prompt new ways of being together in the museum space, at times even exchanging the gallery aesthetic for retail and hospitality where consuming and relaxing offer expanded aesthetic engagements with art and ideas.
Looking at the intersections of social and institutional infrastructures, #museumseating would depart from the concept of museum seating to explore how the use of design and social assembly in art have radically transformed the public sphere from a space to see an art object to an expansive new museum arena to engage with one another.
Whether consuming coffee, playing records, reading books, sipping tea, sharing Thai, baking pizza or even worshipping, the museum experience has expanded over the past thirty years into a multiplicity of activities.
One could mark the beginning of this transformation with museum seating: a utilitarian form used to accommodate basic expectations for a seat while contemplating an object. Today the encounter with something beyond the art object is fueled by artists who combine art, design, and social assembly to prompt new ways of being together in the museum space, at times even exchanging the gallery aesthetic for retail and hospitality where consuming and relaxing offer expanded aesthetic engagements with art and ideas.
Looking at the intersections of social and institutional infrastructures, #museumseating would depart from the concept of museum seating to explore how the use of design and social assembly in art have radically transformed the public sphere from a space to see an art object to an expansive new museum arena to engage with one another.
- Montien Boonma
- Dineo Seshee Bopape
- Angela Bulloch
- Tom Burr
- Scott Burton
- Christopher Cozier
- Sarah Crowner
- Ian Davenport
- Gordon Hall
- Maria Hassabi
- Anna K.E.
- Simone Forti
- Cyprien Gaillard
- Liz Glynn
- Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
- Christine Sun Kim
- Michael Lin
- Saša Janez Mächtig
- Rita McBride
- Tatsuo Miyajima
- Karyn Olivier
- Jorge Pardo
- Jessi Reaves
- Pedro Reyes
- Karin Sander
- Arlene Schecet
- Do Ho Suh
- Apolonija Šušteršič
- Rirkrit Tiravanija
- Oscar Tuazon
- Álvaro Urbano
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