W3 discussion

Post week 3

For the blogpost of week 3, I would like to reflect on the article ‘Entering the Flow: Museum Between Archive and Gesamtkunstwerk’ by Boris Groys in relation to the Tarkovsky exhibition in the EYE Filmmuseum.

An exhibition goes on view for two or three months – Groys said of the typical institutional calendar – and then gets dismantled. The art museum has consequently responded by becoming “a stage for the flow of art events … which include not only curatorial projects, but also lectures, conferences, readings, screenings, concerts, guided tours, and so forth.”

I think it is important nowadays to let the audience experience the full spectrum of the matter that is on display in a museum by offering multiple experiences that immerses you completely. Because of the rise of the internet, basically everyone has excess to information about an artist and artworks. So art institutions should better think of additional ways of exposing works. A museum/gallery can collect and preserve works and put it all together in one space, which makes it unique and interesting, but not everyone enjoys an experience like this. Some people rather consume information by screenings, or lectures, conferences or other ways of consumption.

Also, because of the constant flow of information we are exposed to in the digital era, it is important to offer more possibilities for consuming information about an artist than just one exhibition in a museum. People crave for a stimulation of all their senses and the best way of doing this is by offering every possible medium for transposing of the information a museum wants to convey regarding the art/artist. So, besides the people who do not enjoy certain ways of consuming art-experiences (like a museum visit), some people want to enjoy every single aspect of it in order to completely understand a topic/artwork/artist by visiting all other elements that are being organized.

All concluded, it is important that museums, galleries, or other art related institutions find various ways to immerse the visitors in multiple ways.

Written by Britt