I am at the moment starting to undertake further research into Live
Interpretaion and Theatre in Museums and Historical sites. I am looking for
documentaion and evaluations of both one off and ongoing projects. I have
Harry Needhams material from the Museum of Civilization in Canada and the
AAM Forum material from 1993.
I am particularly interested in:
*performances that have been created around particular exhibitions and
which have been created as part of the curatorial process and design of the
exhibition rather than an after thought at the end.
* performance that have been created to celebrate or draw attention to the
architecture and space of the museum. Not necessarily drawing attention to
particular exhibitions but to the very physical structure of the Museum
itself.
I am taking performance in the broadest sense and I am interested in not
just putting on a play with performers one end and audience at the other
but in diferrent types of performer audience/patron interactions and
arrangements..
A basic question is: Why have performance/live interpretaion in museums?
As a newcomer to this list I don't know if this topic has been raised
before so if you think it is not of interest to the list please contact me
direct.
Gordon Beattie
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Gordon Beattie
Senior Lecturer
Head of Theatre email [log in to unmask]
UWS Nepean
PO Box 10, Kingswood phone (047)360 280
NSW 2747 Australia fax (047)360 464
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