Is a Museum a Factory? Hito Steyerl, e-flux journal reader 2009, Berlin: Sternberg Press pp.28-42
Museums and art galleries are now the places where societies masses can go to view art, whereas before the majority of the public would view artworks in churches.1 This move is a natural progression from one form of worship to the recent more relevant and politically contemporary form of warship.
Whatever name you call it the experience remains the same.
With the quite recent societal move from religion to science a new venue had to be adopted as contemporary art can not be seen to be referencing the old ways. Our move from less populated rural surroundings to the urban cities has seen a need for common places of artefact worship. Whether religious or not, humans have a need to come together and connect with the greater community.2 As religion is now not as important to many modern societies, art which was once used to connect us to a belief is now used to connect us through similarities of loss in religious belief. Museums and galleries are the places where any one can go and any question can be raised. These venues are all very similar in the kind of ore they try to project and they can leave us a common sense of reflection and confusion.
Art galleries, museum and churches are very similar spectulatory environments, they are there as a nessacerary platform for communities to reflect and connect to one another and just like society they are ever changing to adopt the needs of its patrons.
1, http://www.chandleraz.gov/default.aspx?pageid=482
2, http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/71
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