Conference, Workshop
The Global Challenge of Art Museums I
2006-06-24 - 2006-06-24
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
In a globalized world, today’s cultural practice presents a challenge in many places. which also increasingly generates local conflicts. The postcolonial era confronts art museums with a change in art practice that had previously emerged only at biennials. In the meantime, this development has reached public museums including institutions focusing on contemporary art. Beyond the West, they are faced with the problem that in cultures, in which contemporary art has not yet solidly taken root, these museums nationalize. Whereas for artists, migration issues are at the forefront, for museums, the issue relevant for art’s future is that of location. At the ZKM conference, anthropologists, curators, and theorists will search together for solutions that reach beyond the radius of the art market and the normal Western exhibition scene. In doing so, attention will be dedicated to political issues that seem neutralized in common discourse. Many museums throughout the world are dependent on a new audience, which must first develop a concept of art. Art’s future in the twenty-first century will be decided in places that are not yet a part of universal awareness. Cooperation between representatives of various cultures and different competences is thereby that much more important to prepare this new cartography of cultures.
Program
Saturday June 24, 2006, 5:00 pm, ZKM_Cube
The complete podium and the individual contributions are available in .mp3 format. Click on the links to listen.
Peter Weibel [biography]: Introduction
Ladislav Kesner [biography]: Art Museums as a Site of Art History Today?
Podium with participants
Hans Belting [biography] : Closing statement
Podium
Is Art Universal?
Peter Weibel, John Onians, Ginta Gerharde-Upeniece, Ekaterina Degot, John Onians, John Clark, Wonil Rhee, Karin Adrian von Roques, Julia Fabényi, Beral Madra, Bogumil Jewsiewicki, Shelly Errington, Hans Belting, Ladislav Kesner, Claude Ardouin, Lin Chi-Ming
What is Contemporary Art?
Peter Weibel (Introduction/Question), Beral Madra, (Peter Weibel) Wonil Rhee, (Peter Weibel) John Clark, Karin Adrian von Roques, Ginta Gerhade-Upeniece, John Onians, Waltraud Bayer, Karin Adrian von Roques, Hans Belting
Do we see a Re-Nationalization and a Re-Ethnification of Art?
Peter Weibel (Introduction/Question), Waltraud Bayer, Julia Fabényi, Ekaterina Degot, Ginta Gerharde-Upeniece, John Onians, Shelly Errington, Claude Ardouin
