The Poster As a Curatorial Challenge
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The Poster As a Curatorial Challenge. / Christensen, Line Hjorth.
2016. Paper presented at 15th NORDCODE Seminar, Kolding, Denmark.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › Research › peer-review
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T1 - The Poster As a Curatorial Challenge
AU - Christensen, Line Hjorth
N1 - Conference code: 15
PY - 2016/11/22
Y1 - 2016/11/22
N2 - This paper investigates the poster media from a curatorial perspective, focusing on the shift that occurs when posters are torn loose of their original living context and exhibited in museums. The shift is of a general museological relevance, however, is reinforced by posters’ distinct communicative and “visual aggressive” kind (Sontag 1970) and strong dependence on its environments. Applying an ecological view to design, mainly the semiotic notion of ‘counterability’ (Krampen, 2002) and the reciprocal relationship of humans and their built and product-designed environments, I suggest counterability to be a viable option for curatorial work. The concept is unfolded in a case study of a recent exhibition on British posters of the interwar years, held in 2015/16 at the Danish Poster Museum in the open air museum Den Gamle By in Aarhus, which I curated in collaboration with graphic designer Michael Jensen.
AB - This paper investigates the poster media from a curatorial perspective, focusing on the shift that occurs when posters are torn loose of their original living context and exhibited in museums. The shift is of a general museological relevance, however, is reinforced by posters’ distinct communicative and “visual aggressive” kind (Sontag 1970) and strong dependence on its environments. Applying an ecological view to design, mainly the semiotic notion of ‘counterability’ (Krampen, 2002) and the reciprocal relationship of humans and their built and product-designed environments, I suggest counterability to be a viable option for curatorial work. The concept is unfolded in a case study of a recent exhibition on British posters of the interwar years, held in 2015/16 at the Danish Poster Museum in the open air museum Den Gamle By in Aarhus, which I curated in collaboration with graphic designer Michael Jensen.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - posters, poster collections, graphic design, curating, ecological semiotics
M3 - Paper
Y2 - 22 November 2016 through 24 November 2016
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