ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that exhibition making proposes a model for knowledge-making that we may term “collapsology”: a process where our conceptual knowledge is shattered and we are asked to construct a new set of relations, a new meaningful order by organising objects in space. In this way exhibition making invites for an ordering of the world, akin to Claude Lévi-Strauss’ description of “the savage mind”; a scientific enquiry adapted to perception and imagination (Lévi-Strauss, Claude, (1966)[1963], The savage mind, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, p.15).
The chapter builds on three workshops that were all part of the making of the exhibition COLLAPSE – human being in an unpredictable world at Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo in 2017.
