Public Exhibition Research Articles

From traditional flower fair to “degenerate temple” to modern exposition: The local politics and spatial improvement of Qingyang Palace in Chengdu (1906–1937)

Prior to the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895, arguments for transforming cities’ traditional saihui (賽會, ‘religious processions’) into modern expositions frequently appeared in newspapers, and in 1906, the inland city of Chengdu took the lead in putting this into practice. Unlike expositions in other cities, which were either held at factories or in parks, or put on exhibitions at newly constructed venues, the Chengdu Industrial Exposition was reborn from the Qingyang Palace (青羊宫 Qingyang gong) Flower Fair, which had a long-standing history. Officials began holding industrial expositions at the former site of the Qingyang Palace Flower Fair during the period of the New Policy of the late Qing Dynasty, to revitalize industry and commerce and furthermore in the hopes of achieving the objectives of transforming folk customs and improving society. During the Republican period, the Sichuanese government was controlled by warlords, and the industrial exposition was suspended and reinstated several times, but due to the inertia of folk tradition, the flower fairs were consistently held as they had been before. As a space for temporary public exhibitions in the early modern era, the Qingyang Palace Industrial Exposition not only became a field for the exhibition of and chess games between different wills to power due to the concentration of the city’s principal capital forces and agents of power, but furthermore became a focal point for social relationships due to attracting social commentary and a high degree of attention from the media through widespread participation by merchants. From the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic, in the course of officials holding industrial expositions at and promoting the spatial improvement of Qingyang Palace and Erxian Temple, the pulsation of early modern trends of thought, treachery in local politics, the deep roots of traditional customs, and multilateral chess games between social forces surged, engraving the difficult process of the modern metamorphosis, reshaping and growth of a traditional inland city.

NOTES FROM ROME 2022–23

This gazette presents to the reader outside Rome news of recent archaeological activity (July 2022–June 2023) gleaned from public lectures, conferences, exhibitions and newspaper reports.

Representing China in the British Museum: Do Museums Perpetuate Historical Biases?

Museums have never been neutral. Public museums and exhibitions that originated in colonial times are accused of passing on biases that feature Euro-centric interpretations of history. This paper investigates the nature of bias and the history of museums and their biases, and then focuses on the representation of China in the British Museum as an elaborate case study. The paper argues that from the British Museums virtual collections and public resources, the descriptive text and collection highlights in the China galleries reflect implicit and biased historical perspectives of China in the UK, exhibiting a contrast between the British appreciation of exotic Chinese art and contempt towards Chinas social status arising from colonial trade. This paper provides a specific statement and analysis of western biases for colonial discussions and could contribute to decolonization actions taken in museums.

Pandemic reflections on the Care and Control exhibition: refusals, contracts and publics

This article presents reflections on our pre-Covid-19 exhibition Care and Control, and our interdisciplinary collaboration between artist Alice Tatton Brown and social scientists Maud Perrier and Junko Yamashita. The reflections expand current feminist debates about self-care and collective care by centring the importance of public space, refusals and contracts. Care and Control was designed as both an exhibition and a meeting place, created through our ongoing collaboration. It took place in a shopping centre in Bristol (UK) in June 2019. The exhibition was a collage of feminist archival objects and print, contemporary installation and community engagement. Care and Control began broadly as an experiment to seek out alternatives to an individualist approach to self-care, by researching how Women's Liberation Activists practised self-care and collective care beyond the household, and within protest, friendship and public space. In this article, we make a methodological contribution to feminist discussions of collective care by showing how our strategy of a) making a public exhibition and b) writing a Contract of Care is a significant technique for enacting some of the promise of Audre Lorde’s ‘self-care as warfare’. We show how Care and Control, drawing from the legacy of the Women's Liberation Movement, generated resources for countering definitions of self-care that predominate. Reflecting on how the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated classed, racialised and gendered divisions in reproductive labour, our article suggests that self-care and collective care need to be conceptualised drawing on social reproduction.

Celebrating the Panama Canal Museum Collection at 10 Years

From an innovative national grant project to amazing acquisitions of unique treasures, and from international collaborations to more than twenty exhibitions in multiple cities, the Panama Canal Museum Collection (PCMC) has made a terrific impact in the ten years since it was established in 2012. This article discusses the PCMC history and covers achievements from the past decade, including public events, exhibitions, and collection acquisitions.

(Over)Eating with Our Eyes: An Examination of Mukbang Influencer Marketing and Consumer Engagement with Food Brands

With the popularity and success of food-related social media content, food marketers have begun utilizing social media influencers to promote their food brands. In particular, mukbang—video broadcasts of individuals eating copious amounts of food—is a prominent genre of public social media food exhibition that can provide opportunities for food-related social media influencer marketing. The present study examines how parasocial interaction (i.e. nonreciprocal interpersonal relationships formed with media personalities) with a mukbang social media influencer impacts advertising effectiveness and information credibility. A total of 404 U.S. participants completed an online survey. Structural equation modeling found that participants’ parasocial interactions with mukbang social media influencers predicted perceived source trustworthiness, perceived source expertise, and credibility of the information regarding the food content posted. Furthermore, influencer source credibility and information credibility positively impacted consumer brand and video attitudes, as well as behavioral intentions to consume the foods featured in the social media content. Study results provide evidence-based implications for food-related social media influencer marketing strategies and insight into the important role of information credibility on eating behaviors of social media consumers.

What Got You through Lockdown?

What Got You through Lockdown?

Profiling Citizens in the Smart City: A Quantitative Study in Wallonia

Based on the assumption that citizens can participate in smart city development, this paper aims to capture the diversity of their profiles and their positioning towards smart city dynamics. The article starts with a literature review of some models of citizens to better understand how they could be portrayed in the smart city era. Considering that there is no “general citizen” and that usual typologies remain restrictive, we construct tailor-made personas, i.e., fictitious profiles based on real data. To this end, we present the results of a large-scale survey distributed to highly educated Walloon people in the framework of a general public exhibition. The profiling focuses on three aspects: (1) perception of smart city dimensions, (2) intended behavior regarding smart city solutions, and (3) favorite participatory methods. The collected answers were first analyzed with descriptive and nonparametric statistics, then classified with a k-means cluster analysis. The main results are five personas, which highlight the coexistence of different citizen groups that think and behave in a specific way. This process of profiling citizens’ priorities, behaviors, and participatory preferences can help professional designers and local governments to consider various citizens’ perspectives in the design of future smart solutions and participatory processes.

Transience and the modern Turkish interior

Despite the expansion of research in modern interiors around the world and a more inclusive dialogue with regards to geography, ultimately, the field is still lacking theory and methods derived from its own specific needs rather than being adapted from architectural research, and a focus on its transient nature that is likely to lead to more impactful research and preservation results. Modern Turkish interiors research have also expanded greatly with individual, as well as projects or research groups like docomomo_tr interiors and DATUMM (Documenting and Archiving Modern Turkish Furniture) that create awareness through various forms of scholarly (documentaries, archival work) and popular (public exhibitions, popular books and magazines, newspaper pieces, and films) output. Although transience and thus a race with time is at the core of modern interiors research and several struggles are common worldwide, socio-cultural and economic reasons result in a faster pace in Turkey, creating an urgency to implement innovative methods and approaches fitting contemporary prerequisites of the field.

Holographic prism projection: extinction rebellion & energy futures on sci-fi television

ABSTRACT This study in media practice provides insights on video production for holographic prism projection, which has become more accessible as smart flat screens have become more available. The study reflects on the experiences of producing, installing and viewing a documentary video projected via holographic prism, titled ‘FarNearFutureNow.’ Engaging the participation of Extinction Rebellion (XR) members, this university-funded production included recording and combining interview footage with energy policy texts in the visual style of the hologram scene from Star Wars, the 1977 science-fiction film. With viewer co-experience, environmental politics and legacies of colonialism in mind, we produced a 5-minute video and prism projection system for public exhibition. FarNearFutureNow was produced through collective processes of gathering, assembling, reviewing, storyboarding, scripting and editing interview footage and other recordings as well as testing and fabricating installation materials. These production processes enabled us to understand the affordances of creative darkness in holographic production for disassociating and recombining visual elements. The hologram’s disassociated focus on a single object proved useful in drawing audience attention and for assembling non-fiction elements in sequences referencing popular fiction. It is also useful for showing radically different visual scales in sequence, and for simultaneously juxtaposing audio and visual scales.

Exploring Outcomes of Monitoring and Evaluation for Sustainable Development (MESD) Mechanisms in Sedibeng District Municipality

This paper sought to investigate the outcomes on Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) mechanism for Sustainable development in Sedibeng District Municipality (SDM), which were recommended by the investigator in the year 2014. The reorganisation of indigenous ascendency in South Africa necessitate municipalities to assist the societies surrounded by their regions of authority. That has conveyed capability encounters for the most metropolises. They are anticipated to provide adequate ideals of amenities to the citizens. Absence of provision is stagnant deceptive in the dominant disputes by public associates exhibition their hindrance with poor provision distribution and accumulations. Moreover, metropolises were permitted as well as mandatory to articulate their particular regulations to advance the lives of public fellows, and to contrivance their legislative mandates reasonably. In directive for the metropolises to accomplish extra professionally, a transformative classical was required. The excellence of services delivered at municipal level were reviewed. Monitoring and evaluation, key elements of appraisal must be commenced. The justification after this observing and appraisal is to create the system of governance more effective by smooth handed assessment of policies, sequencers, assignments, approaches, enactment of workers, and certainty of the institute entirely. The critique is grounded on a research accompanied to deliberate on the employment of observing and appraisal apparatuses at South African metropolitan glassy. The native administration organisation necessitates additional contemplation since of noticeable talent trials. Nonetheless, there is a necessity not merely to augment the recital of workers nonetheless similarly the excellence of facilities delivered and the actual administration of metropolises as an entirely. The emphasis region of this investigation is Sedibeng District Municipality (SDM), a Category C metropolis in the Gauteng Province. The research was grounded on the notion that operative observing and appraisal apparatuses might afford maintainable progress in Sedibeng District Municipality with enhanced provision distribution. In imperative to authenticate the theory, empirically founded arranged surveys on the observing and appraisal, and service delivery were utilized. Frequency analysis, which lends itself to association breakdown, of workers’ answers and residents’ replies was directed by means of the surveys. The investigation appalled to detect breaches inside metropolitan competences to consider public necessities. The qualitative study has discovered breaches in substructure distribution related to lack of capability mainly in primary resources, viz. financial, technical and human. The competencies of Sedibeng District Municipality necessitate operative application of these main possessions, consequential in suitable principles of provision conveyance to fulfil public necessities. The metropolitan enactment to discourse public requirements was recognized, revised, highlighted and manoeuvred over a Metropolitan Impost Device, deliberated in a recommended prototypical called as Monitoring and Evaluation for Sustainable Development (MESD). The ideal was located in the metropolis in an endeavour to assistance on attaining a glassy of competence concerning maintainable growth.

Talking Urban Scale Models: Les Halles Redevelopment Project in Paris and its Public Exhibitions (1968-1982)

Talking Urban Scale Models: Les Halles Redevelopment Project in Paris and its Public Exhibitions (1968-1982)

Implicit parametric modal expansion method for single-layer reticulated shells based on generative adversarial network

Single-layer reticulated shells (SLRSs) are a prevalent form of roofing used in public buildings, including stadium and exhibition centers. Structural health monitoring (SHM) systems have been installed on SLRSs to obtain modal parameters for their design, assessment, and maintenance. However, modifying a complex finite element (FE) model with modal information acquired from a limited number of sensors can be challenging, especially for SLRSs. It is necessary to expand the measurement mode to obtain the complete mode before modifying the FE model. This paper proposes an implicit parametric modal expansion method for SLRSs based on generative adversarial network (GAN) to accomplish modal expansion without prior knowledge of the stiffness and mass of SLRSs. A GAN is trained to establish mapping relationship under different combinations of stiffness and mass of the SLRS. Then the expanded modals can be obtained through the trained GAN after obtaining measuring modals. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified through numerical examples of spherical SLRSs. Using the method proposed in this paper, the accurate modal expansion results of numerical models can be obtained with a small number of measuring points. The results of the numerical examples indicate that the proposed method can achieve modal expansion through obtained measuring modals and trained GANs without prior knowledge stiffness and mass of SLRS.

"The Slums Have To Be Shown": Documenting Drug Injection in Public Spaces Ahead of the Opening of a Drug Consumption Room in Marseille.

EPOSIM is a community-based participatory research study which used the Photovoice method with people who inject drugs (PWID) ahead of a possible opening of a drug consumption room (DCR) in Marseille, France. It aimed to identify the strategies used by PWID when injecting, and the risks they take when they have no safe private space to inject in the area they live in. A total of 7 PWID participated in the full study process. The 189 photographs they took provided us with a good understanding of their injection practices in public places. The main results highlighted the spatiality and materiality of injecting experience in a context where no DCR was available. They also showed the relevance of Photovoice to valorize the voices of PWID when implementing a DCR. Through the showcasing of their photographs at various public exhibitions, the participants seized the opportunity to use Photovoice to make their voices heard beyond the group formed for the study, in order to show the different forms of stigma and insalubrious contexts which they faced on a daily basis. Furthermore, the photographs taken demonstrated that having only health and safety records is not enough to fully understand PWID injection practices. Future studies must take into account PWID perceptions of their relationship with injecting in public spaces and with the management of stigma. The questions of pleasure and comfort must also be explored in evaluation studies of harm reduction measures, for example, DCR.

Abstract 2: A Model of Public Health Campaign on the Awareness of Alcohol Flushing and Prevention of Upper Aerodigestive Tract Cancers in East Asia

Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this study is to share a model of public health campaign on the awareness of alcohol flushing and prevention of upper aerodigestive tract cancers in East Asia. East Asians suffers the highest cancer burden attributable to alcohol use with a particularly high incidences of esophageal cancer and other upper aerodigestive trac (UADT) cancers. Alcohol use and carrying the common East Asian-specific dysfunctional mutation in the aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH2) gene are two major and synergistic risk factors. Alcohol flushing or alcohol intolerance is the better-known manifestation of ALDH2 deficiency following alcohol consumption. Although UADT cancers are highly preventable, there is a lack of awareness and education on alcohol flushing and its associated health risks in East Asian countries and Asian communities in the U.S. Methods: Several small-scale university-based studies have shown that alcohol flushing education and awareness could reduce alcohol consumption, indicating that a promising model for community-based public health campaign. In Taiwan, we have successfully created such a model by establishing a non-profitable advocacy group (Taiwan Alcohol Intolerance Education Society, TAIES) and collaborate with community leaders, universities, hospitals, volunteers, and government health promotion agencies to educate the public. Educational materials such as fliers, posters, animation videos, interviews were produced and disseminated widely in public exhibitions, conferences, university/community outreach events and via government websites and news/social media. Results: An interview with a popular social media influencer reached more than 500,000 viewers within one week. A national “Taiwan No Alcohol Day” on May 9th (59 =無酒, a homophone in Chinese) was also launched to raise awareness since 2019. ‘No Alcohol Day’ received endorsements from the government and more than 150 organizations. A pilot study to incorporate ALDH2 genetic test and education in oral cancer prevention program in Taiwan has been initiated. Conclusion: Our public health campaign model demonstrated wide reach and strong community and government support. Similar public health campaign on alcohol flushing and cancer risk should also be translated and disseminated in other East Asian countries and to the nearly 19 million Asian Americans in the U.S. Citation Format: Che-Hong Chen, Daria Mochly-Rosen, Su-I Hou. A Model of Public Health Campaign on the Awareness of Alcohol Flushing and Prevention of Upper Aerodigestive Tract Cancers in East Asia [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 11th Annual Symposium on Global Cancer Research; Closing the Research-to-Implementation Gap; 2023 Apr 4-6. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2023;32(6_Suppl):Abstract nr 2.

Reframing the Human-Fish in the Edo and Meiji Periods

Abstract This article explores the history of a marine zoo-anthropomorphic hybrid, the human-fish (ningyo), within the socioreligious mindscape of Japan from the second half of the seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth century. Because of the interspecific anatomy attributed to them, ningyo have always been addressed from heterogeneous perspectives (religious, literary, political, erotic, scientific) and have thus been subject to continuous hermeneutic oscillations between the fringes and the centers of human/nonhuman networks. Focusing on this bidirectional process, the present study aims to shed light on the phenomenon of the ningyo, taking into account the material culture (taxidermic items, printed talismans), practices (sideshows, public exhibitions), and social actors (itinerant ritualists, scientists, politicians) that conceptually informed and anatomically reified this liminal marine creature.

Impact of public exhibition on the perception of birthmarks.

The importance of photographs in social media, the steep rise in popularity of tattoos, and the prominence of individuals with visibly different skin in fashion are likely to be changing the landscape of self- and public perception of birthmarks. Study objectives were to assess the impact of a photoshoot and public exhibition on the self-perception of individuals with extensive birthmarks, and to explore the viewing public's reactions. Thirty individuals with congenital melanocytic nevi (CMN) were recruited internationally. Each had a professional photoshoot portrait with their skin exposed, resulting in a public exhibition in London entitled "How do you C Me Now?" Participants/parents completed pre- and post-questionnaires relating to self-perception and the impact of their birthmarks on behavior. Over 8000 members of the public viewed the exhibition, 464 completing an on-site questionnaire on its effects. All participants/parents rated the experience as positive, valuable and helpful. Scores on self-appreciation and self-confidence were significantly higher after the photo shoot. Members of the general public overwhelmingly reported the exhibition increased their positive feelings towards people with birthmarks. The majority of public respondents also reported that the exhibition made them feel better about their own skin and about their looks in general. This unique exhibition and the associated research has provided a striking new perspective on potential psychological interventions for individuals with birthmarks.

Povijest arhitekture kao dinamički proces

Renate Wagner-Rieger focused her research on Austrian medieval architecture in addition to her studies of the ”Wiener Ringstrasse” especially when she participated in significant public Middle Ages art exhibitions. The shows were supported by catalogue essays, which were finally collected in her final book. As a response, she covered a wide range of architectural history in her lectures.

Twelve (Queer) Labours

In the first six months of 2022, the small South African town of Makhanda became the location for a series of queer public performance interventions. These interventions were framed as acts of civic labour and involved a diverse group of queer artists, students and allies labouring alongside local artisans and citizens. The project, entitled 12 Labours, was conceived by performance artist Gavin Krastin, and created in collaboration with the collective of labourers, who appeared, guerrilla-style, dressed as garden gnomes in brightly coloured overalls and with pointed hats, in several public places throughout the town. During these once-off interventions, the gnomes would work together, often for several hours, performing a range of mundane tasks for an incidental audience of passers-by. This paper positions the project as a departure point for wider consideration of some of the ways in which mundane acts of public labour, when approached as opportunities for queer performance, can become spaces for the expression of queer transgressive joy. The discussion critically reflects on three of the twelve labours: the communal repainting of a bus stop, the planting of a public garden and the laying of flowers in a derelict cemetery, as a means to consider how the public performance of mundane tasks by queer artists presents an intriguing opportunity for the performance of queer joy, and Black queer joy in particular, in contexts and spaces not typically associated with queerness and with queer bodies. The discussion also considers how the archiving of these labours, as a public exhibition of filmed documentation, constitutes an ‘archive of feelings’ (Cvetkovich 2003) that seeks to document experiences conjured through the performance of mundane labour, rather than merely archiving the act itself.

Mrs Frances Abington: An Eighteenth-Century Actress and Her Use of Imagery for Self-Promotion

The eighteenth-century actress Mrs Frances Abington left a legacy of images of herself, both as a woman of fashion and as a popular comedienne. At the height of her career in the mid-century, English society was experiencing accelerating changes in communication, both through printed media and imagery. Abington made full use of the popularity of the new public exhibitions and the growing market for printed images to actively promote herself to her supporters. This article places her in the context of mid-eighteenth-century London theatre and examines how she used imagery in the creation of a public persona.