'Deltagelse' som kulturpolitisk strategi og institutionel kulturformidling

Abstract

This article addresses the turn to participation in cultural policies and communication from the perspective of Danish cultural policies. It investigates whether the participatory agenda has become an institutionalized “dogma” or holds the possibility to radically change cultural institutions and communication (museums being the prime example). In so doing, it draws on the French political philosopher Jacques Rancière (2010, 2014) and his theory of democracy and education, as put forward by the Dutch educational scholar Gert Biesta (2014), as well as a critique of the participatory agenda, as put forward by international scholars within art history and museology (Bishop 2013; Rogoff & Schneider 2008; Sternfeld 2012). However, these authors also suggest a revitalizing of the strategy in terms of an “anticipatory” institutional and communicative practice and the article gives some tentative examples hereof in the Danish context.