With Liz i visited museums, galleries and one exhibition

I noticed a big difference between the gallery/museum space and the exhibition space, especially when i went to the third year ceramics exhibition(s). I noticed at both these exhibitions and the ai wei wei exhibition that the artist will act informatively giving more context to their work using additions to their space. This behaviour is more frequent in the sculptural projects, utility objects such as teapots simply lie waiting to be handled and bought.

When museums aim to engage children they include activities, this aspect could be as simple as “look through the hole” or how we saw in William Morris ;the build your own stain glass window game and the fabric you could feel, the puppet show area. I think that this experience appeals to me more than that in the V&A in the sense that a single point of seriousness ceases to exist, the content still engaging for an adult but simply a structure in which silence and being serious isn’t the necessary answer for everybody in the room.

Quietly experiencing objects as they appear in front of our slow moving bodies and taking the time to see them completely, can this process even be released and un-restricted? It can be the contrast between our wooden box-glass door box and the touchable things which allow us to feel safe moving around faster. but can the exhibition space become a place where people begin to engage more playfully?