Misreading the Museum: Ein Workshop mit Noam Toran
In collaboration with Museum Rietberg, MA students from Visual Communication and Interaction Design explored un- (and even counter-) conventional forms of narration in a workshop conducted by the artist Noam Toran. Within a speculative tour of the museum, the students were encouraged to misread artefacts and to create narratives around them that overlook any established cultural or historical connotations.
”If we strip the museum of its ‘hard’ cultural, historical, geographical and political frameworks, and instead veil our encounter with it in a fiction –or a science-fiction–, what might we glean from the material that a ‘straightforward’ reading might miss? What might such an approach reveal about the kind of knowledge that museums proliferate and about the societies they serve to depict and define? ” (Noam Toran)
