Material–relational abstraction. Museum educational situations with abstract art

Abstract

The purpose of this Ph.D. thesis is to study how museum educational situations with abstract art can be created and understood in light of new materialist theorypractice. My approach is inspired by Gilles Deleuze’ (2021/1968, 2018/1988) and Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s (2020/1980, 2009/1994) philosophy and new materialist theory-practice (Bolt, 2004; Kontturi, 2018; O’Sullivan, 2001, 2006; Page, 2018, 2020). The new materialist approach challenges representational logic, human-centeredness and the hegemony of language, setting the focus on the agency and entanglements of nonhuman matter. The thesis consists of four articles and a meta-analysis.publishedVersio