初探现代博物馆展示语境中的策展研究

Primary Research on Exhibition Curating in Modern Museum

策展的本质是"展示"。物(客体)、人(主体)、空间(场)之间的关系,视觉性为主的体验(观看)与意义的阐释(叙事),构成策展研究分析的主要对象。现代博物馆的策展有自己独特的媒介与模式。一方面,通过叙事制造一个具有视觉性与媒体性的第三空间,具有很强的主客交融的特性;另一方面,内在于策展行为过程中的"公有性",来源于策展跨学科的生产方式、不同资源的组织与社会协同。本文尝试通过建立八组概念之间的关系,初步构建博物馆语境中策展研究的框架,包括现代博物馆与收藏、藏品与展品、物与空间、展示与观看、可读性与可写性、身份认同与公共治理、实然与应然、博物馆的泛化与异化。文章梳理现代博物馆展示语境中策展的内在逻辑与意义价值,将它定义为一种基于"物质性"的行为,一种制造"意义语境"的行为,同时是生成"空间叙事"的行为,投射"物"与"自我"关系的行为。同时评述策展的价值与意义,即个体意义与社会价值的生成。

The essence of curating is “exhibiting”. The multilateral relation among artifacts(object), humanbeings(subject), and spaces(place), visual experience(seeing) and interpretation of meanings(narration),constitute the main elements of the curating research. Exhibition curating in modern museum has its unique medium and pattern. On the one hand, exhibition narration creates “a third space” featured with visuality and mediality, which develops a strong inter-subjectivity;on the other hand, “common engagement” inheres in the practical process of curating, which dues to its interdisciplinary production, variety of resource organization and social collaboration.The essay constructs eight pairs of concepts and relation between them, which is ought to set a primary framework of research on exhibition curating in modern museum. The eight concept-pairings are “modern museum and collection”, “artifacts and exhibits”, “objects and spaces”, “exhibiting and seeing”, “readability and writability”, “identity and public governance”, “values and judgement”, “generalization and alienation of museum”. In the essay, the internal logic and essential value of exhibition curating in modern museum are analyzed, which is defined as the practice based on “materiality”, to make interpretative context of meanings,as well as “narration of spaces/places” and to project relations between object and subject. Finally, the value and meaning of curating is also discussed, that is to produce individual and social meanings.