Dreaming in the Museum
Potted Plants as Indicators of Trauma in Museological Settings
by Leonie Brandner

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Author(s)

Leonie Brandner

Publication

The Hague : in house, 2021

Scope

124 Pages, illustrated, 27 cm.

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Master thesis Artistic Research Royal Academy The Hague (KABK) 2021 about the triangular history of potted plants, museum displays and trauma diagnosis. “The terms 'white cube' and PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder), two phenomena from totally distinct worlds, yet they share a strange resemblance [-]. Consider ‘a place deprived of locatio ‘ in a ‘limbolike status’ with a ‘direct line to the timeless’ alongside ‘time freezes’,’ dissociation’ and ‘lack of orientation’ respectively“. “But more than anything else it is a story about hope, wonder, and joy – the joys of experience, and in particular the joys of experiencing art together” (Brandner).

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Person as subject

Leonie Brandner

Keywords

plants , trauma , museums

Location

Cabinet 10 - 3: Tentoonstellingsmodellen

Remarks

Includes bibliography