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Design as Choreography: Information in Action
Author(s) -
Overhill Heidi
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
curator: the museum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.312
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2151-6952
pISSN - 0011-3069
DOI - 10.1111/cura.12094
Subject(s) - exhibition , kinesthetic learning , dance , choreography , meaning (existential) , action (physics) , psychology , visual arts , content (measure theory) , multimedia , sociology , computer science , art , pedagogy , mathematical analysis , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , psychotherapist
Museum exhibitions are conventionally understood to be educational, meaning that they convey information to visitors. The content of this information is understood to include visual, auditory, and written media, as well as content from tactile, spatial, and social encounters. This article asserts that visitors also gain knowledge through bodily kinesthetic experiences while in the exhibition setting. Emerging research in other areas has revealed connections between physical posture and cognitive issues, such as emotion and attitude, but this has not yet been applied to museum practice. I suggest that exhibition planning could exploit bodily experience more explicitly as a form of information; and that body‐aware practices like sports, dance, and yoga offer intellectual content suitable for exploration in a museum setting.