1. Staging the visual experience as a dialogical proces An empirical work in progress on children’s bodily perceptions and responses to art Ingelise Flensborg September 2009

2. hypotheses 1) We can learn to structure the non- verbal communicationprocess 2) The communication is at its best in face to face relations when a process of inter- subjectivity is obtained How do we structure and observe the communicational process? When are the intersubjective situation established?

3. Time Attrack attention Direct attention Create space Hold space Break space

4. creation of communicative spaces A first visit to an art museum Individual attention Mutual attention Intersubjectivity Jensen and Bech Kjeldsen,2007

5. Individuel attention

6. Mutual attention

7. Tableau vivant

8. The communicative space is a ‘situated’ situation which stems from from the face to face interaction and is constituted through a common attention to relations that either socially, communicatively, psychologically, emotionally or psychically, will create a possibility for intersubjectivity ( Jensen og Beck Kjeldsen,2007) The intersubjectivity is established when two or more persons through empathy see and re- cognize each other while they are observing a common third (here the artwork)

9. The end

10. Different actors

11. Different actors continued

12. Museum-rituals established

13. Failure in creating and holding space