Theoretical framework: In this presentation, which is a part of the Horizon 2020 research project 'Acting on the Margins: Arts as Social Sculpture' (AMASS), we build on a critical reflection of the previous Pilot Study entitled Searching for Beauty: Art Museum Travels to Families. The study was created during the first closures of schools and galleries and the isolation of entire families due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The analysis of pilot outcomes resulted in an extension and transformation into a new educational design reflecting the current situation of continuing social limitations. Thus, we will introduce a new artistic/educational structure called Transformation/Cut for New Suit (for New Age). It represents an open artistic form, revolving around a visual metaphor (a video performance), which opens passages between segments of this form that can be regrouped and traversed towards didactic transformations of cultural contents and experiments with ever-changing transfigurations of creation, cognition and critical discourse on the institutional and political background of culture. Methods: Using qualitative participatory methods of collecting and analyzing data of family groups and other individuals (IPA, TA, visual semiotic analysis) we examined possibilities of different forms of communication in action emerging from the period of isolation. Research questions: Based on records from 4 culturally disadvantaged groups of participants from selected schools and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, and reflecting on current results of axial coding, we are highly interested in conceptualizing positions of pupil/ teacher/artist, empirical spectator related to Rancière’s concepts of Le Maître ignorant, emancipated spectator and intellectual emancipation and transgressing discursive boundaries of cultural and educational institutions. Expected Outcomes: Our main interest lay in designing and testing a prototype of an educational model for a virtual museum that would support creative, critical and dialogic art-based learning and uncover the artist´s role. Visual examples are taken from both parts of the research and from school/museum practice.

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