Staging the visual experience as a dialogical proces

An empirical work in progress on children’s bodily perceptions and responses to art

Ingelise FlensborgSeptember 2009

hypotheses

• 1) We can learn to structure the non-verbal communicationprocess

• 2) The communication is at its best in face to face relations when a process of inter-subjectivity is obtained

How do we structure and observe the communicationalprocess?When are the intersubjective situation established?

Time• Attrack attention

• Direct attention

• Create space

• Hold space

• Break space

creation of communicative spaces A first visit to an art museum

• Individual attention• Mutual attention• Intersubjectivity

• Jensen and Bech Kjeldsen,2007

Individuel attention

Mutual attention

Tableau vivant

• The communicative space is a ‘situated’ situation which stems from from the face to face interaction and is constituted through a common attention to relations that either socially, communicatively, psychologically, emotionally or psychically, will create a possibility for intersubjectivity (Jensen og Beck Kjeldsen,2007)

• The intersubjectivity is established when two or more persons through empathy see and re-cognize each other while they are observing a common third (here the artwork)

• The end

Different actors

Different actors continued

Museum-rituals established

Failure in creating and holding space