Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
1. Uluslararası MARMARİS Sanat ve Tasarım Sempozyumu 11-12 Kasım 2024, Muğla, Türkiye, 11 - 12 Kasım 2024
Today, museums are trying to adapt their exhibition and presentation techniques, approaches and practices to the environments in which new art is produced. In the definition of contemporary museum prepared by the International Council of Museums, it is emphasized that the museum is a non-profit, permanent institution that researches, collects, preserves, interprets, exhibits and is at the service of the society. Along with updating its functions with its new definition, the museum has become responsible for promoting diversity and sustainability as public, accessible and inclusive institutions. To provide a variety of experiences for education, entertainment, knowledge sharing and working ethically, professionally with the participation of communities have been added to the definition as the functions that museums assume responsibility for. Museum visits, which have started to become individual journeys, develop experiences that support lifelong learning with exhibitions where post-modern museum principles such as "inclusivity", "learning by sharing", are focused and presented. Ultimately, postmodern museums offer spaces and experiences where "queer" theory, which is a fluid knowledge exchange platform that enables the questioning of traditional norms by liberating the intellectual production process and practices in the academic world from the monopoly of established stereotypes, is embodied in practice. In this study, the art studio of the “Queer” American writer Gertrude Stein, which is described as “the first museum of modern art", is discussed through the concepts of “Queer Theory” and contemporary micro-museum. In this context, examples of museums that are open to diversity, encouraging intercultural communication, organized around Gertrude Stein's "salon-studio model" have been assessed in Turkey. Four micro single artist museums, namely, The Adam Michiewicz Museum, Doğançay Museum, Orhan Kemal Museum and Ara Güler Museum in Istanbul, which are thought to be suitable for the salon-studio model in terms of content, were examined. It has furthermore been discussed how the dissemination of the salon-studio model will contribute to the concept of postmodern museum and contemporary micro-museum practices.
Keywords: Gertrude Stein, Micro museums, Postmodern Museum, Postmodernism, Queer Theory