Open Access六/6: Finding Meaning. The Expanded Exhibition and the Post-Pandemic World
Author(s) -
Andrea Baldini
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the journal of public space
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2206-9658
DOI - 10.32891/jps.v5i4.1382
Subject(s) - exhibition , meaning (existential) , transformative learning , sociology , pandemic , aesthetics , citizen journalism , distancing , function (biology) , hierarchy , visual arts , political science , media studies , covid-19 , art , epistemology , medicine , law , pedagogy , philosophy , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , evolutionary biology , biology
How will artistic exhibitions function in the post-pandemic world? Visiting museums and galleries is a health hazard. 六/6: Finding Meaning is an attempt to offer an alternative. It embodies a novel exhibiting format called the expanded exhibition, which inhabits an expanded public space, between the physical and the digital. 六/6shows us that, once liberated spatially, exhibitions can be effective tools of meaning-making and social change even in a post-pandemic world. By exploiting the interplay between the digital and the physical domains, expanded exhibitions such as 六/6 can build alternatives of cultural production that can cope with social distancing, while being participatory, democratic with respect to access, and politically transformative by displacing the colonialist hierarchy center/periphery.