The Tourists and the Locals. Participatory Practices of Art Institutions in View of Dean MacCannell’s Concept of Tourism
The Tourists and the Locals. Participatory Practices of Art Institutions in View of Dean MacCannell’s Concept of Tourism

Summary/Abstract: Reaching for the conceptual apparatus used by Dean MacCannell to reflect on tourism, thearticle analyzes the selected practices used by the Polish exhibition institutions in relationto the audience. The aim of these practices is, on the one hand, increasing the attendanceof museums and galleries, and o the other the activation of spectators. This activation is understood as a process of coming from a model that diminished the receptor to the role ofa passive spectator, to the model in which the audience is to become a potential “partner” ofthe institution. Analyzing these tendencies through the concepts of “backstage”, “scene” and“scene decorations”, the article points the reasons to perceive the audience activation actionsas often superficial or even mystifying in nature.

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