Presence and Atmosphere in Art museums

Theis Vallø Madsen (1) , Tina Anette Madsen (1)

1 SDU - University of Southern Denmark

Presence theory and atmosphere studies are the subject of a three-year research project between Faaborg Museum and University of Southern Denmark. In this paper, the project’s two researchers will present the theoretical framework for analysing the museum as a specific place for presence and atmosphere. Counter-intuitive mapping and walk-along interviews are here used to study the museum as a space where museumgoers move in and out of presence and absence, solitude and social interaction, surface and depth, voids and intensity, or openness and hiddenness. Faaborg Museum is a Danish art museum and a hundred-year-old Gesamtkunstwerk, i.e. a museum where architecture, paintings, sculptures, design, and furniture are created as a total experience addressing the mind as well as the senses.

Mots clés: experiment; Presence; art; atmosphere; phenomenology; multisensory; museums; meshwork

Domaines: Architecture, aménagement de l'espace

Theis Vallø Madsen, Tina Anette Madsen. Presence and Atmosphere in Art museums. Ambiances, tomorrow. Proceedings of 3rd International Congress on Ambiances. Septembre 2016, Volos, Greece, Sep 2016, Volos, Greece. p. 479 - 484. ⟨hal-01414238⟩