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Cultivating interpretive communities: on the performance of urban memory in museums and theatres.
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The theory of interpretive communities represents a strong form of cultural determinism in which practitioners are becoming bearers, rather than producers of meaning. So, interpretive communities are not so much groups of individuals who share a point of view, but a mechanisms of organising experience of these individuals. What members of interpretive communities share is tacit knowledge, a structure of assumptions which are “prefigurative”, that is not accountable to reflection. In my paper I focus on two empirical cases the House of Terror Museum in Budapest and the Goose on a String Theatre, an avant-garde theatre in Brno, to develop a perspective which reveals that interpretive communities can be objects of cultivation. In both cases the production of aesthetic meanings and the politics of cultural memories are intertwined. |
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