Art museums as spaces for active learning
Exhibition and workshop series, ‘A Moving Tale: Kinetics and Art’ at the Museum of Art and Photography, Bangalore, introduces specators between ages 7 and 11 from 9 Bangalore schools to the complex notion of movement in art
Flow India and the Museum of Art and Photography (MAP), Bangalore, collaborate for the third time to bring a specially designed art exhibition and workshop series for young learners in the city. The collaboration successfully activates the museum’s collection for learners and educators, giving primacy to art-thinking in education.
The exhibition, ‘A Moving Tale: Kinetics and Art,’ brings together paintings, photographs and sculptures from MAP’s growing collection of more than 20,000 artworks. It showcases plural ways in which 2-and 3-dimensional art has engaged with the complex relation human beings have had with movement. It also plays up the design-thinking gone into introducing movement in art forms that are traditionally thought to be static.
While designing the workshop series, the core strategy has been to make young learners experience art in ways that go beyond the act of viewing an exhibition for pleasure and meaning and, involves exposure to mini-experiences that allow them to piece together the intent, content and philosophy through games, art-making exercises and self-led discussions and lecture sessions.
The workshop series weaves in themes from school curricula across Social Sciences, some of these include plant, animal and human movements, gesture as a function of language and communication and stylization of movements and gestures as the core part of all performance-based art.
