Deadline- 6 September 2013
All eligible participants around the world are invited to take part in Conference on Global Programming and Museums of Modern Art. The objective of this conference is to pay serious attention to the acquisition and presentation of art from all over the world, beyond the still prevalent dominance of European and North American art.
The conference takes a closer look at the new inquiries into the relation between art institutions, globalization and postcolonial discourse – think of the various new exhibitition projects and acquisition policies of for example the Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, Moderna Museet and the Stedelijk Museum. Moreover, there will be room for a critical investigation of the deployed terminology and theoretical discourse.
Topics covered-
- Exhibition and collection histories of modern and contemporary art museums, with special interest in ethnographic moments, primitivism and purification tendencies, and their reassessment in the context of today and tomorrow.
- The division of modern art and ethnography, as well as the division of modern and contemporary art museum and the ethnographic museum, and the possible or impossible reconciliation of the two.
- Curatorial methods, attituted and exhibition practices which can reconcile versatile or even oppositional practices, traditions and histories, both in and beyond the predominating model of the white cube.
- Museum strategies that focus on local affinities within a larger (art-historical/global) framework
- Theoretical reflections on postcolonial theory, globalisation and the modern and contemporart art world.
Eligibility-
The call for papers is open to both institutional and independent researchers.
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