Margaret Choi Kwan Lam –
Scenography as New Ideology in Contemporary Curating and the Notion of Staging in Exhibitions
Zitate zur Theorie und Politik des Zeigens.
Whatever media is in use, it should be contributing to the curational idea. Together with other elements being staged, meaning would come through those juxtaposed signs awaiting for encounters.
Such scenographic exhibitionary field would value the notion of transformative experience rather than transmission of messages.
Margaret Choi Kwan Lam (2013): Scenography as New Ideology in Contemporary Curating and the Notion of Staging in Exhibitions, p. 35
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Margaret Choi Kwan Lam – Scenography as New Ideology in Contemporary Curating and the Notion of Staging in Exhibitions