Alisa Maximova will present a paper on the Academic seminar of IGITI Research Centre for Contemporary Culture

On February 19, Alisa Maximova will present a paper “Microethnography of museum: how visitors' interaction is organized ”. Alisa Maximova is a postgraduate student at the Faculty of social sciences, HSE.

Abstract

Changes in museums of the last decades are accompanied with the change in approaches to studying their visitors. A person coming to museum today has more agency in terms of choice, sense-making, participating and individualizing museum experience. At the same time, sociologists turn from analyzing audience structure to exploring museum visiting on microlevel: that is, how people navigate museum space, what they talk about, how dialogues, coordination of movement and gaze enable exploration and interpretation of exhibitions. Alisa Maximova’s talk will address what microethnographic approach implies and what it makes visible in a museum visit. She will dwell upon the questions of how video recording could be employed to study human conduct in museums, how perspectives of visitors, designers and curators could be brought together in a sociological project, and what results of such study could add to our knowledge of organisation of social interaction.

The seminar begins at 6pm.

Address: Ul. Petrovka 12, room 308.

We welcome everyone!

For admission to the seminar, please write to Alexandra Kolesnik: aleksa-kolesnik@yandex.ru