Conference
The Global Future of Local Art Museums - The Cultural Practice of Local Memory and the Rise of Global Art
2006-01-19 - 2006-01-21
IFK, International Research Center for Cultural Studies
Reichsratsstr. 17
A-1010 Wien
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At the turn of the new millennium, the globalization of art production not only involves major museums in the West (and their expansion plans such as Guggenheim supplicants in Singapore and Guadalajara), but leads to a new landscape of art institutions (Biennials and museums) outside the West which for the latter implies to find their own profile in justifying their existence and to redefine contemporary art in a given, local context.
In general, we notice a dramatic transformation of museums in present day societies. In the West, art museums function as international market places and, with the help of curatorial populism, cutting edge architecture and public relation campaigns, develop an important role for the urban economy and also become tools for the celebration of political power. Outside the West, museums are still in search of their role both as a forum in the public domain and as an attraction for international tourism. In the one and the other case, art is about to undergo a major transformation which reaches beyond the demands of the art market.
Program
Thursday, January 19, 2006, 3:00 pm-5:00 pm
2:30 pm
Hans Belting [biography]: Introduction
Re-examining the Museum Today
Chair: Hans Belting [biography]3:00 pm
Peter Weibel [biography]: Museums as Sites of Cultural, National, and
Religious Identity
4:00 pm
Mamadou Diawara [biography]: Why Museums? Local Memory and Artifacts in African Museums
Friday, January 20, 2006, 9:30 am-6:30 pm
Art Museums in Transition
Chair: Anke te Heesen[biography]
9:30 am
Ladislav Kesner [biography]: Art Museums as a Site of Art History Today?
10:30 am
Tony Bennett [biography]: The Art Gallery as Civic Machinery
11:30 am Coffee Break
12:00 am
Henk van Os [biography]: Musealizing the Museum? The case of the Rijks Museum
1:00 pm Lunch Break
Conflicts in Museum Geography
Chair: Henk van Os [biography]
3:00 pm
Deborah Klimburg-Salter [biography]: Reinventing the National Museum of Afghanistan
4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:30 pm
John Onians: [biography] Mapping and Documenting Art Museums Worldwide
5:30 pm
Andrea Buddensieg [biography]: Non-Western Artists and Local Museum Doors: The Case of Rasheed Araeen
Saturday, January 21, 2006, 9:30 am–1:00 pm
New Visions of the Museums
Chair: John Onians [biography]9:30 am
Karen Cordero Reiman [biography]: Revisions of Recent Museum Experience in Mexico City
10:30 am
W. Richard West [biography]: The American Indian. Museum as a Civic Forum
11:30 am Coffee Break
12:00 am
Claude Ardouin [biography]: World Heritage and Local Community Museums
Convener: Hans Belting [biography]
