Turning to the Visitor's Body: Affective Exhibition and the Limits of Representation

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Turning to the Visitor's Body: Affective Exhibition and the Limits of Representation

As museums have found themselves needing to express concepts and events for which we seem not to have an adequate verbal language, they have begun to turn to the physical body of the visitor in order to find a way to express the inexpressible and to represent the unrepresentable. Affect, physical bo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Harris, Jennifer
Other Authors:	Andre Desvallees
Format:	Book Chapter
Published:	UNESCO- ICOFOM 2012
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26864

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