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Materializing the Medium. Staging the Age of Humans in the Exhibition Space

Möllers, Nina

Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung, Bd. 9 (2018), Iss. 1: S. 86–102

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Möllers, Nina

Abstract

The article takes the world’s first exhibition on the geological and philosophical concept of the Anthropocene, »Welcome to the Anthropocene «, Deutsches Museum (2014-2016), as a starting point for initial theoretical reflections on the potential and limitations of exhibitions as media and designers of the Mediocene. On the basis of a discussion of image deployment, use of space and the materiality of objects, exhibitions are analyzed as ›slow media‹.