Religious Objects in Museum-Based-Sensescapes: Signs, Media, Actors?
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Philipps-Universität Marburg
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In my talk I introduce the concept Sensescape for museum-based environments: multi-dimensional arrangements of objects and object groups on/in display/s with media technology in space. Building on Sociomateriality (M. Roth), Wahrnehmungsräume (J. Mohn; H. Mohr), and informed by cognitive science and psychology of perception, this concept provides us with a holistic approach explaining perception and meaning making via multi-sensorial experience. In my lecture I am addressing the following questions: What are sensescapes and how do they function – both in general and in museums? And what role do religious objects play therein: signs, things, media, actors?
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exhibition, museumisation, thing theory, exhibit, communication theory, new materialism