Communicating Knowledge and Identities Audiovisually in Exhibitions: Participatory Approaches at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum

Abstract

The author, a curator of ethnographic film at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum, and a producer of several films and curated elements at the museum, presents numerous collaborative and participatory approaches applied at her museum. She focuses on the use of film in interactive media points in exhibitions and the production of new audiovisual accounts in cooperation with visitors and cultural mediators. She analyses the overall exhibition narrative in the permanent exhibition I, We, and Others: Images of My World, various filmic interventions and co-curated personal exhibitions by museum visitors. She proposes to understand personal exhibitions and subjective filmic contributions as ‘contact zones’ for various individuals and groups at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum.