ABSTRACT

When museums across the world closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and staff struggled to rethink their new roles in a challenging and unprecedented context, youth collectives – long-term programs for teens and young adults, aged 15–24 – reinvented themselves. The focus of my research is the digital projects developed during lockdown by youth collectives in three metropolitan contemporary art museums. These include MOCA Teens, the MCA Youth Committee and Duchamp & Sons, based, respectively, at LA MOCA (U.S.A.), MCA Australia, and Whitechapel Gallery (U.K.). They adjusted quickly to the new digital pace and devised creative communication and mediation strategies that allowed their collaborative work to continue online. For this research, I combined the analysis of the digital content they produced – websites, social media and podcasts – with interviews I did with the museum educators leading each program. The success of these projects is grounded on a shared trust between museums, educators, and participants.

摘要

当世界各地的博物馆因 COVID-19 大流行而关闭，工作人员在充满挑战和前所未有的环境中努力重新思考他们的新角色时，青年集体——针对 15-24 岁青少年和年轻人的长期项目——重塑了自己。我的研究重点是三个大都市当代艺术博物馆的青年集体在封锁期间开发的数字项目。其中包括 MOCA Teens、MCA Youth Committee 和 Duchamp & Sons，分别位于 LA MOCA（美国）、MCA Australia 和 Whitechapel Gallery（英国）。他们迅速适应了新的数字化步伐，并设计了创造性的沟通和调解策略，使他们的协作工作能够继续在线进行。在这项研究中，我结合了对他们制作的数字内容的分析——网站、社交媒体和播客——我对领导每个项目的博物馆教育工作者进行了采访。这些项目的成功基于博物馆、教育工作者和参与者之间的共同信任。