The artist as historyteller within museum and heritage sites
PhD thesis
Bendon, H. 2018. The artist as historyteller within museum and heritage sites. PhD thesis Middlesex University Media
Type | PhD thesis |
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Doctorate by public works thesis | |
Title | The artist as historyteller within museum and heritage sites |
Authors | Bendon, H. |
Abstract | The public works presented for this PhD are commissioned art projects that explore the role of the artist as historyteller within museum and heritage sites. I coin the hybrid term historytelling (between storytelling and historiography) to situate my practice as both an artistic and a historiographic practice. The works utilise photography, film, installation, and locative technologies in the production of narrative-based work for three commissioned projects undertaken between 2005-2015. The public works consist of: a series of exhibited film works and a book chapter produced as an artist in residence within VivaCity2020, an interdisciplinary research project with a focus on Clerkenwell, London; a physical and online museum interpretation zone including film and augmented reality (AR) for the Royal Air Force Museum (RAFM); and a locative historytelling iOS app for Alexandra Palace and Park. Each of these works engages public audiences in representations of the past. Building on the feminist principles of my previous work, my approach to these public works is to employ feminist methodologies, working against meta-narrators in history discourses. I extend deconstructivist discourse in historiography and new museum theory into art practice to demonstrate how the artist can contribute in the construction of histories for public audiences. |
Department name | Media |
Institution name | Middlesex University |
Publication dates | |
19 Oct 2018 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 19 Oct 2018 |
Accepted | 17 Oct 2018 |
Output status | Published |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Language | English |
https://repository.mdx.ac.uk/item/87zv6
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