Worldwide, the story is being resumed. The lines that define art and tell a compelling story are also blurred. Museums, in particular, are finding out how to tell the stories of your land better. In Australia, the Banjilaka tribal cultural centers of Melbourne depict the history and traditions of tribal communities through sensitively performance, story, artwork and audio-visual intervention.
Lisbon, Quake: Lisbon allows visitors at the earthquake museum to return to 1755 to regain one of the most transformative events of the city. More than one hour-to-a-half hours, and 10 immersive rooms, viewers can hear heat from burning buildings, smell and feel. In Germany, Stutgart’s Art Museum has included AI-Infused Storytelling. And in America, the modern arts museum of New York City has its own oral history initiative-a way to preserve the memories of the first hand of individuals in his voice.
Close to the house, museums and artists are also experimenting.
Parvati Nair’s ‘limit of change’
In Chennai, artist Limit of change There is a project made of theater, installation, art, and more, or as Parvati is called ‘Story Museum’. He and his playwright niece Nayantara Nair had the idea of marrying the concept of museums with performance. Parallel, they were also inspired by shifts in the theater, where the plays revealed on a city walk via headphones or within a short set. From this confluence – where archives, performance, and interaction interaction – ‘Story Museum’ emerged.
“Nayantara and I came to it as a place where historical stories can activate our living history, where stories are experienced through art installations and infographics, and brought into life by movement, spoken words and text,” she explains. “Creativity, finally, comes from allowing ideas to allow the ideas, perolate, and fuses, until something completely new looks.”
Timeline
Guests in the arrival room, tie the peace ribbon
Parvati’s father, Major General TNR Nair, was part of the Custodian Force of India (CFI) and Korea was sent to Korea on a peace mission after signing the Korean War Aristis in 1953. After years, with the help of letters and magazines, which, with a trip, was captured by Parvathy and Nawantra, with a trip. The narrator was a young curator and through nine interconnected places, represented a part of each DMZ, he and his assistant told performance, archival footage, dramatic performance and such a story. In a sense, he created a museum with a fictional story as his soul. It wants to travel all over India and Korea.
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Court martial room
Inspiration was widely come from projects and establishments that both saw in museums in India and abroad. Nayantara was also inspired by the UK -based theater company, paper birds show mobile – A product of the time spent with communities, listening to personal experiences, and using people’s words to portray powerful social comments.
Dr. Tasnim Mehta at Bhau Daji Lad Museum
Mumbai’s oldest museum regularly activates its collection by turning the static display into immersive, developed experiences. In its own way, it merges stories with museum performances. Curator, Mehta, has invited major multi-disciplinary artists to engage with collections, decolonis and challenge ways to see the world. Concept of ideological artist LN Tallur Superior Albert Einstein used the principle of relativity of Albert Einstein as an early point to explain his universe. Visitors preferred to participate, and preferred to turn on and off mechanical demonstrations.
Ln tallur’s Superior
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Atul dodia 7000 Museums: A Project for Republic of India
Photo Credit: Anil Rane
“I did not want to do it in a preaching manner, so it is done by inviting the artists to make ways to complicate with their own narratives and materials,” Mehta says. Several artists including Nikhil Chopra, Sudarshan Shetty and Sariranath Banerjee are associated with the museum.
Nikhil Chopra: Yoga Raj Painter – Memory Drawing X, Part I and II
Even current performance, Cartography of unseen By artist Reena Saini Kallat, it has a product. Mehta worked with Kallat to decide where his artwork would be placed around the colonial museum. This was a way to challenge the European approach. “It was thought that I kept the crown on which the names of freedom fighters are engraved or [why we] Put the constitution in front of the statue of Rajkumar Albert, ”is called Mehta.
Story Exhibition of Karthik Subramanian
For the aurovela-based photographers and multi-disciplinary artists, stories are part of his art. For their performance Sleepwocker Archives Last year, at the French Institute of Pondicherry, Subramanian and his colleagues had access to a range of miscellanea from archival photographs, herberium samples, card catalogs, maps, equipment and archives of the institute. In the process of moving through the material, they discovered the possibilities of animating the connection between objects and the world contained in them – reading them in the spirit of playing.
“Every time I go to an exhibition, I am willing to touch myself on the performance.” Therefore, in our show, what we wanted to bring the audience were the feeling of avatar – with all the senses of one, “Say Subramanian.” Can one sniff or taste a picture? Can anyone still feel the movement in the picture? Can we imagine the audience what is outside the frame? ,
Sleepwocker Archives
He believes that oral stories, poems and epic have their own proper share in the subcontinent which are excellent carriers of history and knowledge. “I think the old South Indian temples find a museum, where visitors attach all their senses to immerse them in a particular story or several stories held at that place,” they explain. “This, I believe, allows them to have enough space to read their own reading and explain the story, story or historical event-like we collectively read, re-reading and re-reading and re-writing and continue to write and re-write.”
Writers and journalists are located in Chennai.
Published – 17 April, 2025 04:16 pm IST
