CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Christensen, Carl Otto |
|---|---|
| Title | Performance and Experience at the House of Terror |
| Summary | This paper aims to draw on interview accounts/voices of visitor experiences and a visual narrative analysis at a memorial museum. My case is a site of commemoration in Budapest, Hungary, the House of Terror. The paper treats it as a site of national mythology that is structured by a socialist and fascist past, embodied in a visual and technological culture, which in a performative and sensory form creates an ambiguous and emotional experience that captivates the visitors, which later can frame their understanding of the past, present and future. The empirical findings, the interviews put forward that the narrative exhibition performs a whole, or a total narrative, coming from inside the visitors, through the perception, spaces and emotions they embody throughout the exhibition’s narrative path. The paper’s focus is on the House of Terror’s sensory and physical narrative based on what it evokes in the visitor: an analysis of the practice and agency of display leading into a phenomenological discussion of narrative/re-narration and the visitors’ experiences. |
| Supervisor | Naumescu, Vlad and Monterescu, Daniel |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/christensen_carl.pdf |
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