Práticas (i)materiais em Museus

Abstract

This paper addresses the relationship between immateriality as social experience and material culture as seen in some museum exhibitions. It also refers to the translatability of these processes of how immateriality is reconfi gured into materiality. Instead of separating the past from the museum space these exhibitions propose (im)material interfaces which closely relate them with the contemporary. These reconfi gurations of museums imply new discursive tendencies and visual regimes. Focusing on the ways in which narrative and immateriality can be materialized and mediated in the museum context and by way of a Portuguese case study, this paper will attempt to explore its effects. Namely, the interactions and fl uidity between immaterial narratives of belonging and the material spaces within museums, inclusions and exclusions, the redefi nition of expert subject positions and the kind of knowledges that increasingly inform museum exhibitions and its (im) materialscapes.