Held in conjunction with the exhib ition Luis Camnitzer at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery\, Universit y of British Columbia.
Traditionally\, the museum as an inst itution has been devoted to a stable public. Conceived in order to exhibit the collections of individual donors and nation states to a sympathetic and stationary audience\, the space of the museum was hermetic by design. Rece nt shifts in the international socio-economic landscape\, however\, have br ought the very category of the “public” into question. As the speed and flu idity of economic\, intellectual and political exchange increases powered b y the motor of globalization\, the stability of a singular public has given way to the proliferation of porous publics\, calling for a reassessment of the status of the contemporary museum as such. The Future of the C ontemporary\, hosted by the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery\, will contribute to this reassessment.
Featuring lectures by a disting uished panel of critics\, artists and curators from North America and South America\, Europe\, Africa and India\, the symposium will ask what obligati ons the contemporary museum should address when confronted by the porous pu blics that populate the rich and often fraught space of the “global village .” Some past examples of representation of non western cultures in museums will be discussed. In addition to considering specific programming policies and exhibition strategies\, the symposium will (re)conceptualize the museu m more broadly. Speakers will ask how the waning of the permanent collectio n as a curatorial resource\, the rise of online cataloguing\, and the proli feration of satellite galleries\, trans-national institutional partnerships and off-site exhibiting have influenced the cultural presence of the art m useum as such. Symptoms of globalization\, these developments in museologic al infrastructure have been seen by many as offering new opportunities to m ore accurately reflect the diverse and rapidly changing climate in which th e contemporary museum is located. Others have regarded these developments a s evidence of a willing complicity in commodity exchange and a concession o f the contemporary museum’s critical distance. Practices of canon formation \, curation and archiving will be discussed as possible components of an ex panded 21st-century museology which might engage with and intervene in proc esses of globalization while maintaining the museum’s status as what Michel Foucault called a “heterotopia”\, a space distinct from and unlike its obj ect of analysis from which we can ask these questions.
List of Speake rs (alphabetically)
THURSDAY\, September 29\, 2-5:30pm
2pm
Scott Watson\, Morris and Helen Belkin A
rt Gallery - Introduction
2:15-4pm
Luis Camnitzer\, SUNY College at Old Westbury - "Michelangelo's Conundrum"
4-4:1
5pm
Coffee Break
4:15-5:30pm
Katrin Steffen\, Curator\, Daros Latinamerica and Eugenio Valdes Figueroa\, Director of
Art Education and Research\, Daros Latinamerica
"Daros Latinamerica: H
istory and Future" - a dialogue moderated by Antonio Eligio (Tonel)\, Univ
ersity of British Columbia
FRIDAY\, September 30\, 9:30am-3:3 0pm
9:30am
Scott Watson\, Morris and H
elen Belkin Art Gallery - Introduction
9:45am-12:45pm
Ni
colas Bourriaud\, Head of Inspection of Artistic Creation\, French
Ministry of Culture
Clementine Deliss\, Director\, Weltkulturen Museum - "Remediating Collections in a Post-Ethnographic Museu m"
Nicolaus Schafhausen\, Artistic and Managing Dire ctor\, Witte de With - "The Danger of Mediocrity"
12:45-1:45pm
L
unch
1:45-3:30pm
Saloni Mathur\, University of
California Los Angeles - "Modalities of the Mega-Museum in India"
Th is symposium is held in conjunction with the exhibition Luis Camnitzer (Sep tember 30 – December 4\, 2011\; Opening Reception\, September 29\, 7 – 9pm) .
The Future of the Contemporary is co-organized and support ed by the French Consulate of France in Vancouver and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. It is made possible with assistance from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ottawa\, and the UBC Curatorial Lecture Series\, supported by the Faculty of Arts and the Audain Endowment for Cura torial Studies in the Department of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory.
For further information please contact: Naomi Sawada at naomi.sawada@ubc.ca\, tel: (604) 822-3640\, or fax: (604) 822-6689
Photo credit: Luis Camnitzer\, Landscape a s an Attitude\, 1979. b/w photograph\, 28.1 x 35.5 cm. Daros Latinamerica C ollection\, Zürich. Photo: Peter Schälchli\, Zürich.
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