ABSTRACT
This chapter testifies to a correlation between curatorial and architectural strategies while investigating the consequences of the occupation of the museum space on the part of performing artistic practices. Museums are undergoing a profound institutional and cultural transformation in the contemporary age of migrations. In Valery Casey's paper The Museum Effect: Gazing from Object to Performance in the Contemporary Cultural-history Museum, she highlights the power that museums have in communicating a message to their public. Cultural institutions, and museums, are required to ensure accessibility of message, learning motivation and the visitor's direct participation, among other new competences. Tania Bruguera's long-term travelling project Immigrant Movement International, developed in collaboration with the Queens Museum of Art in New York, aims to raise issues and a debate about what happens outside the museum space, specifically discussing the implications of having a migrating identity.
