Podwodne muzea antropocenu. Akwatyczna wyobraźnia Jasona DeCairesa Taylora

• Authors: Małgorzata Nieszczerzewska

Title variants

EN

Underwater museums of the Anthropocene. The aquatic imagination of Jason deCaires Taylor

Abstracts

EN

Referring to the ‘aquatic imagination’ of artist Jason deCaires Taylor, this article analyses underwater museums – artistic installations that are gaining more and more popularity as unusual tourist attractions. Sinking art seems to be a process somewhat opposite to the mainstream in museology, i.e. searching for works of art and other artefacts and retrieving them from the bottom of the sea or the ocean where they ended up due to a disaster (e.g. wrecks of various types, ancient art), and placing them in the space of traditional museums. Adopting the perspective of cultural studies and taking into account the intertwining of perceptual, symbolic and conceptual aspects of understanding water allowed us to broaden the area of reflection and analyse the phenomenon of underwater museums not only as an alternative exhibition space for contemporary sculptures or a new type of alternative tourism, but also as a particular cultural phenomenon. The primary aim of the article is to consider Taylor’s sculptures as cultural artefacts that point to a continuous multi-directional relationship between humans and creatures living in the ocean’s depths – particularly in the context of the Anthropocene as well as many other cultural contexts.

Keywords

PL

podwodne muzea; Jason deCaires Taylor; akwatyczna wyobraźnia; naturokultura

EN

underwater museums; Jason deCaires Taylor; aquatic imagination; natureculture

• Publisher: Narodowe Centrum Kultury
• Journal: Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 113
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 217-230

Contributors

author

Małgorzata Nieszczerzewska

• https://orcid.org/0000000151799244

Identifiers

DOI

10.26112/kw.2021.113.16

Biblioteka Nauki

1944203