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The Lived Experiences of Leisure Participants: A Hermeneutic Approach to the Experience of Visiting an Art Museum

김소혜 1 Kim Chulwon 1

1경희대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to explore how museum visitors as leisure participants signify their leisure experiences and how the meanings of their visits evolve from the interpretivist perspective. Participants were those who, after appreciating the “FANTasia: East Asia Feminism” exhibition at the Seoul Museum of Art, perceived the exhibition primarily attuned to delivering educational messages to them. The data obtained through unstructured multiple interviews were analyzed based on the “hermeneutic circle” methodology that emphasizes the connectivity between each participant’s narrative and that of the whole. Themes that emerged were “being panicked/being bored,” “being in the flow/being alienated,” and “self-expression/ self-denial,” which were mutually intertwined. The findings are discussed in terms of the lived meaning of subjectivity and the hermeneutic circle through which the interconnectivity among the three themes was understood.

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