Gallery 31 Call for Entry: This Is Not A Museum. Mobile Devices Lurking

DESCRIPTION

The possibility of subverting the logic of the Museum through the construction of mobile devices has a long tradition. Since the famous case of Marcel Duchamp (Boite-en-valise, 1941) efforts to move the field of aesthetic experience beyond the limits of the museum have multiplied. But this tradition of "mobile art" has also been the subject of a recent co-option by the conventional museum. Indeed, in the last decade has seen a proliferation of attempts by multiplying the perimeter of the traditional museum by portable structures.

This is not a Museum. Mobile Devices Lurking aims to catalog and reflect these initiatives circulating in the public space, and collide these prostheses with the conventional museum.  Instead of extending the linear feet of the walls of the museum, these devices feature nomadic exhibitions as a platform for direct participation and self-managed development of social research and the articulation of educational experiences.

ELIGIBILITY

This call is open to artists, architects, designers, educators, cultural managers, historians, social workers and students of sociology, anthropology, art, architecture, design, education, as well as individuals with interests related to culture and public space.

Submit information regarding your project and case study research of alternatives to traditional museum settings for possible inclusion in the Washington, DC presentation of this exhibition.

DEADLINE

Friday, November 16, 2012