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23.03.2010
CIMAM´S 2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE “COMMON GROUND FOR MUSEUMS IN A GLOBAL SOCIETY” NOV. 8-9, 2010
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Museums are a location for culture. Together with universities and libraries they have been places where traditionally knowledge has been kept and fostered. In the last two decades, however, this seems to be changing. More and more, museums appear to be interested in the spectacle and in increasing audiences. Meanwhile the function of the curator and the museum director as producers of cultural products questioning our reality withers away.
In this context, CIMAM’s conference intends to inquire the role of museums in engaging in public discourse. It will comprise 4 sessions, 4 case studies and a working period. Each session will feature 2 speakers presenting a 30 minutes paper. The purpose of the case studies is to provide as complete an understanding of certain events or situations as possible. Following, participants will be divided into working groups to discuss the topics raised. The conference will close with each working group offering a compilation of their conclusions and recommended actions. Speakers include:
DAY 1
WELCOMING REMARKS AND INTRODUCTION
Zhou Wei, district mayor Huangpu District, Shanghai
Fan Di´an, museum director, National Art Museum of China, Beijing. Chairman, China Art Museum Association
Li Lei, executive director, Shanghai Art Museum
Samuel Kung, director, MOCA Shanghai
Manuel J. Borja-Villel, director MNCARS, Madrid
SESSION I – THE ROLE OF THE INTELLECTUAL IN CREATING A COUNTER HEGEMONY
‘Critical forms of the public sphere’
Susan Buck Morss, Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory and member of the graduate fields of German Studies and History of Art, Department of Government, Cornell University
Xudong Zhang, professor of Comparative Literature; Professor of East Asian Studies NYU, New York
SESSION II – EAST AND WEST, THE MUSEUM AS A ‘DEPOSITIF’
‘Postcolonial India & South Africa’
Rustom Bharucha, independent writer, director and cultural critic based in Kolkata, India
‘Black Art & the Balkans; Art, museum, economy and exchanges’
Elvan Zabunyan, Contemporary art historian and art critic. Associate Professor, University of Rennes, Brittany
SESSION III – DIALOGICAL PRACTICES IN A POSTCOLONIAL WORLD
‘The Museum Revisited’
Tim Griffin*, editor-at-large of Artforum
‘Museums as global banks of values’
Catherine David, head curator at the Direction des Musées de France
SESSION IV
Fan Di´an, Director of the National Art Museum of China
Wang Huangshen, Deputy Director of the CAFA Museum
DAY 2
CASE STUDIES I
‘Corporatization of biennales and departure from museum & Taiwan case study’
Fang-Wei Chang*, director of Biennial and International Projects Office, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
‘Collections and methods & Poland case study’
Jaroslaw Suchan, director The Muzeum Sztuki (Museum of Art), Lodz
CASE STUDIES II
‘Yishu, archives, and China-West exchanges in museology to date’
Ken Lum, artist
‘Collections and Collectives: Tracing the Southeast Asian Contemporary’
Patrick D. Flores, curator at the National Art Gallery of the Philippine National Museum in Manila, and Professor of art history, theory, and criticism at the University of the Philippines at Diliman
WORKSHOPS
- all working groups will be located in the same room, in round dinner tables
- participants will be divided into 12 working groups / 14 participants per group
- each group will be led by a moderator
- a series of questions to be addressed in the workshop will be prepared and handed to participants and speakers at least 2 weeks before the conference
CONCLUSIONS AND CLOSING REMARKS
Conclusions will be presented in a round table format, moderated by a chair, with group leaders reflecting on the key points of the presentations and workshops for 5 minutes each
Chair and 12 working group leaders
AGENDA
Sunday, 7 Nov.
Arrival in Shanghai
Monday - Tuesday, 8-9 Nov.
8:30 – 9:15 am Registration (on Monday)
09.15 - 17.00 Sessions and workshops. In the evening receptions.
Wednesday - Thursday, 10-11 Nov.
Post Tour to Beijing
REGISTRATION WILL OPEN IN MID-APRIL
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