O que faz um palhaço sentado em um museu?

Performances no contexto das coleções dos museus brasileiros.

Abstract

The following article deals with the issues surrounding the musealization process of nowadays popular artistic manifestations in the art circuit, but not equally integrated to the institutional collections, especially when dealing with Brazilian museums: performances and new media art. The project in question seeks, through the investigation of foreign and Brazilian works, in addition to current case studies in museums managed for the federal administration, Instituto Brasileiro de Museus, to build hypotheses for the difficulty faced by these categories of works of art in its journey to the institutions. As we understands the mission of Museums in serving as a repository for research in Art History, and the gap that has been left in this sense, the project seeks to propose ways so that, through research and exchange of experiences between teams and institutions, it becomes possible to reach a range of common solutions applicable in several similar cases, applying the formal academic knowledge to museum practice.