Chinese basket
A Chinese basket , like automatic writing , the storyboard , the five-senses check , the imaginary journey or the technique of “search orders”, is a concept of (subject-oriented) museum education .
The concept was originally developed by the Austrian cultural educator Heiderose Hildebrand and first used in the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna. As part of her work as the head of the pedagogical service of the Austrian federal museums (since 1985), it was disseminated together with other communication methods suggested by her in various projects and museums, also outside Austria, and is now one of the standard techniques of associative reception processes in the field of museum education.
The Chinese basket consists of a collection of around fifteen to twenty objects that are used as an associative bridge between the everyday thoughts of museum visitors and the works of art. They are usually put together in a basket, box or the like. The visitors should each choose an object from the “basket” and then relate it to a work of art they are viewing. The objects in the Chinese basket can be casually collected everyday objects, but also unusual or even things tailored to a theme or the work of art, such as musical instruments, items of clothing, painting utensils, plants or mixed from different contexts. The Chinese basket should allow a playful access to art and activate one's own creativity. The art objects are not intended to be explained, but to be experienced through the senses, thus enabling the visitor to gain individual access to the work of art.
literature
- Cremer, Claudia u. a .: window to art. Ideas for creative museum visits. Berlin / Milow 1996.
- Hildebrand, Heiderose (ed.): Theoretical basic work in the field of personnel and time-consuming educational work in museums and exhibitions. Study on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Science, Transport and Art. Vienna 1996.
- Hildebrand, Heiderose: What is Chinese about the Chinese basket? A good question. In: Kunst + Studium, H. 253/2001, pp. 11–12.
- International Society of Fine Arts, IGBK, Bonn (ed.): Teaching Art? Artistic Competence and Art Education Processes - New Subject-Oriented Approaches in Art and Art Education in Germany and Europe. Stuttgart 1998.
- Schreiber, Ursula: Children's museums in Germany. Basics, concepts, forms of practice. Unna 1998.
- Seumel, Ines: Associative Reception Process. In: Kunst + Studium, H. 253/2001, pp. 4–10.
- Wyrobnik, Irit: The art museum as an educational challenge. Approaches to modern and contemporary art with children. Frankfurt / Berlin / Bern a. a. 2000.