Book Chapter

Tracing the Practices of Audience and the Claims of Expertise

Walsh, Victoria, Dibosa, David, Dewdney, Andrew

2013

Overview

At an operational level, the knowledge-base and expertise from which organizational change has been generated within Tate over the last 20 years has primarily been developed through the purchase of commissioned research from external consultancies, and indeed this knowledge-base has dramatically diversified and extended during the last 20 years in response to the changing cultural, social and economic conditions to include economics, business and finance; architecture, urbanism and engineering; design, media and communications; retail, publishing and catering; and information technology. More often than not though, such consultancy research was invisible at the level of the delivery workforce having been mediated through organizational change or project initiatives at director level of strategy and implementation. But despite Tate's entry centre-stage into the cultural and social politics of the public domain, comparatively little independent research has been commissioned towards the creation of change within the practices of the museum in relation to the cultural or social, despite the epistemological shifts in the gallery's activities towards these domains. Tate Encounters: Britishness and Visual Culture was the first sustained piece of internally authorized research in this area.

• Publisher: Routledge
• ISBN: 0415606004, 9780415606011, 9780415606004, 0415606012