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Imagining the Audience: Viewing Positions in Curatorial and Artistic Practice

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How do artists and curators imagine the audience in their work? How do they weave a picture of the individual viewer’s mental, physical, and emotional experience into the production of art events and what impact do these conceptions have on the finished artworks or exhibitions? Which new perspectives are useful in explaining the changes that have occurred in the art field and the concomitant new viewing positions? These are some of the questions that are the basis for Imagining the Audience.
Text in Swedish and English.

Editor Magdalena Malm & Annika Wik
Publisher Art and Theory
ISBN 978-91-979985-5-0
Reference P2163
Date 2012
Type Publication

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