Other Encounters with the Museum
Artistic research, participatory workshop, 2019
A participatory workshop that explores the diverse ways that feelings, sexuality, and identity shape the way we encounter artworks. The workshop involves both discussion and practical experiments, including the use of navigational scores to imagine encounters with museum spaces informed by each participant’s erotic impulses, lived experience of violence and discrimination, and past experiences of spectatorship.
The workshop was first developed for the Göteborg Konstmuseum, as parallel programming for the G19 Swedish Conference for Gender Studies, for which Nemer also gave a keynote presentation with scholar Jennifer Evans. Participants enacted a series of scores developed by Nemer, engaging artworks in the museum collection based on themes of gazing, touching, and listening. The exercises were followed by discussions about participants’ experiences and impressions, building on this new knowledge to inform future approaches to art spectatorship.
The workshop was first developed for the Göteborg Konstmuseum, as parallel programming for the G19 Swedish Conference for Gender Studies, for which Nemer also gave a keynote presentation with scholar Jennifer Evans. Participants enacted a series of scores developed by Nemer, engaging artworks in the museum collection based on themes of gazing, touching, and listening. The exercises were followed by discussions about participants’ experiences and impressions, building on this new knowledge to inform future approaches to art spectatorship.
