This document discusses how contemporary art exhibitions can shape youth identities through narrative spaces. It provides background on Swedish Travelling Exhibitions, which produces traveling exhibitions and education on exhibition media. The document discusses a pedagogical perspective on learning in cultural spaces and how youth understand their world through narratives. It provides two examples of exhibitions - The Collective and WORKING CLASS HERO - that allow youth to engage with art and reflect on their own narratives.

1. LISTENING POST

2. NARRATIVE SPACES, CONTEMPORARY ARTAND THE SHAPING OF YOUTH IDENTITIES

3. WHY WHAT HOW

4. WHO Göran Björnberg (M. Phil.) Head of Tour Production and Pedagogics Swedish TravellingExhibitions goran.bjornberg@riksutstallningar.se

5. Swedish TravellingExhibitions National agency Established 1965 Social and geographical equality.

6. Swedish Travelling Exhibitions Main target today to develop the exhibitionmedia

7. Swedish Travelling Exhibitions Producestravellingexhibitions and educations on exhibition media

8. Swedish TravellingExhibitions Contemporary Art

9. Swedish TravellingExhibitions Children & Youth

11. 1. A pedagogical perspective Socio-culturalperspective Every function in the child´s cultural development appears twice: first on the social level and later on the individual level: first between people (interpsychological) then inside the child (intrapsychological). Vygotskij

12. The exhibition is a situatedpractice. The situatedpractice is by nature social Languages as mediatingresources Vygotskij Meaning - sense Zone of proximal development

13. Achieving knowledge has shifted from teaching to learning & from a teacher-centered process to a student-centered!

16. This means we need to focus on the visitor!

17. And the visitor as a participator!!

18. The visitor as a consumer and as a producer = Exhibition 2.0

19. 2. Narrative spaces Narrative constitutesreality Good art embodiesour story and does not remindus of our story Jerome Bruner

20. The Narrative Space The Curator´s interpretation A Statement THE VISITOR THE EXHIBITION A representation of ART Experiences, Interpretation, Meaningmaking THE SPACE THE SOCIETY The Museum, the Gallery or whatever Values, History, Architecture, Communication Discourse, Politics, Topicalsubjects

21. How do we experience? Semiotic language Disembodied Visual TextualIntellectual

22. How do we experience? Phenomenological (events) Embodied Tactile Emphatic

23. Perception is related to action Space is experiencedthroughmovement Objects are experiencedthrough touch We learn by using our body

24. Mind World Body Muriel Rukeyser“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”

25. ”The Dance of Agency” Mind BodyWorld Engagement

26. Agency The capacity to make a differenceGiddens

27. 3. The Exhibition Museums and galleries are important collective activities and must play a role within a lifelong learning perspective.

28. We have to understand the exhibition as a learning environment, a social arena for knowledge construction through active participation and collaboration

29. 4. Youth – who are they?

30. In order to work with youth we must understand youth!

31. The MeWE Generation New values & mental styles

32. The MeWE Generation Individualism From We to Me OpportunitiesMaximize! Identities Homo zappiens – zapping between values, identities and places Treasures It´s all about relationships Technology Keeping the herd together Work Opportunity vehicle & coffee shop diversion Consumption Self-realization & Identity experiments Gender The new amazons and their humble servants The future now!

33. 5. Two Examples People narrativize their experience of the world and of their own role in it. (Bruner)

35. LISTENING POST

36. The Collective Presentation of the work Watch it, listen to it, experienceit DeconstructionIndividualentrances Whatdoes it mean to you?, narrative, emotions, memories, experiences The CollectivePresentations Whatdowesee? Discuss ListeningPost ReconstructionStatements, Representation Paper, drawings, mobile phones, computers The IndividualPersonal reflectionWho are you? I am ….

37. Cecilia Parsberg / Rinkeby, Stockholm What would you like to ask someone who has more power than you?

38. If you have power why don´t you use it for something good which can be good for society? Why are other countries poorer? Why do you have to obey grown ups? Why am I? Good that you want to listen there is almost noone who caresaboutwhatwethink

39. WORKING CLASS HERO (Candice Breitz)

40. SPONTANOUS TALKS Meta-reflection Emotions What is an idol?What´s the relation betweena fan and an idol?What´s the role of popular music in the society Howdidshedo it? Whydo you think it wasdonein this way? Whatdoesshewant to say? What feelings did you get? Which artist would you choose? Whichsong? Why? Wahtwould you like to say? THE ARTIST´S WORK NarrativizingEmotions

41. Acknowledgements Some of the pictures in this slide show where taken from Flickr and the CreativeCommons.I thereforwhish to thank; WetwebworkVictoriapeckham Frozenchipmunk Ricardo martins Scarlet green Bill HR Kevin DooleyMilgrammer J Lord and …. Leo Green

42. www. zonereflection.blogspot.com Thank you! www.slideshare.net/GoranBjo