Semiophore

Semiophor ( Alt Gr. Σημεῖον semeion , character ',' signal 'and φορός Phoros , carrying') is a technical term from the Museumskunde . The term was introduced in 1988 by the Franco-Polish historian Krzysztof Pomian . This emphasizes the property of an exhibited object as a special sign carrier, the meaning of which only emerges through the museum context. For example, a chest that is used as a piece of furniture to store objects on a farm can become a symbol of folk art in a museum . The object changes its meaning and then changes from an everyday object to a semiophore. In this new function it symbolizes ideas of a time or testifies to certain events relevant to a society (resemiotization). The original meaning, e.g. B. as a piece of furniture, however, fades (desemiotization).

Semiophores are things that matter not only in their material value, but in the testimony they give.

literature

Gottfried Korff : Fremde (der, die, das) and the museum (1997), in: Gottfried Korff: Museumsdinge. Landfill - expose , Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2007, pp. 146–154, ISBN 978-3-412-01506-0 .
Krzysztof Pomian : The Origin of the Museum. From collecting . Wagenbach, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-8031-5109-0 (= Small Cultural Studies Library , Volume 9).

Individual evidence

^ Krzysztof Pomian: The origin of the museum. From collecting . Wagenbach, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-8031-5109-0 (= Small Cultural Studies Library , Volume 9).
^ Adrian de Jong: The conductors of memory: Museumization and nationalization of folk culture in the Netherlands 1815-1940. Münster: Waxmann 2007, p. 32.
↑ ^a ^b ^c intangible works of art in the exhibition room , quotation from Gottfried Korff: Fremde (der, die, das) and the museum (1997), in: Gottfried Korff: Museumsdinge. Deponieren - Exponieren , Köln / Weimar / Wien 2007, pp. 146–154, here p. 146. and Roswitha Muttenthaler: Das Objekt, analyzing course documents for exhibitions , MAE ZHdK 2009; Retrieved April 18, 2014.

Web links

The language of things Thomas Thiemeyer (University of Tübingen): Museum objects between sign and appearance , PDF, 8 pages, 144 KB, page 3, accessed on April 17, 2014.
Gottfried Korff: Paradigm Shift in the Museum? , Considerations on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Werkbund -Archiv, presented on May 27, 1993 in the Martin-Gropius-Bau .

[Pomian-1] Krzysztof Pomian: The origin of the museum. From collecting . Wagenbach, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-8031-5109-0 (= Small Cultural Studies Library , Volume 9).

[deJong-2] Adrian de Jong: The conductors of memory: Museumization and nationalization of folk culture in the Netherlands 1815-1940. Münster: Waxmann 2007, p. 32.

[Wordpress-3] tangible works of art in the exhibition room , quotation from Gottfried Korff: Fremde (der, die, das) and the museum (1997), in: Gottfried Korff: Museumsdinge. Deponieren - Exponieren , Köln / Weimar / Wien 2007, pp. 146–154, here p. 146. and Roswitha Muttenthaler: Das Objekt, analyzing course documents for exhibitions , MAE ZHdK 2009; Retrieved April 18, 2014.