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

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?

Time Attrack attention Direct attention Create space Hold space Break space

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

Individuel attention

Mutual attention

Tableau vivant

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)

The end

Different actors

Different actors continued

Museum-rituals established

Failure in creating and holding space