Parallel Voices

How can designers transform museums into inclusive, diverse, equal, and accessible platforms for cultural dissemination? Providing context, allowing for varied program, communicating art processes, understanding the cultural context of the audience, and more.  If the content is currently being de-westernized, how would the display of content evolve to align with these changes? We experimented with: changing the delivery of information, activating senses other than visual, reinventing exhibition methods, and more. The strategy to bridge the gap between the audience and the displayed art for this specific exhibition was: to impose the visitors journey, evoking a specific emotion , in this case oppression, that informs the audience of the curatorial narrative (which relates back to said emotion). 

In the exhibition, each art piece has two pieces of context, where one is referencing who the art is showing as oppressed and the other the oppressor. These are represented visually through photographs or videos. The exhibition groups oppressed context and oppressor context which not only highlights how the curatorial narrative is creating connections between the pieces, it also creates a rhythm or pattern of the visitor experience. Additionally, we also studied different ways of how visitors will interact with the exhibition, oppressing the body into specific positions.