2nd International Conference

РЕШИТЕЛЬНЫЙ МУЗЕЙ The Reflexive Museum: Responsive Spaces for Publics, Ideas, and Art 20 – 21 March 2014

What is a 21st century museum of contemporary art? The Reflexive Museum: Responsive Spaces for Publics, Ideas, and Art will reflect on what it means to build a responsive institution focusing on current debates around notions of the public, the museum as a repository of experience, and the development of cultural spaces as laboratories for art production and creative thinking.

The conference will explore historical precedents, as well as the rising phenomena of privately-funded, publicly-driven institutions that are changing the face of museum culture worldwide. Over two days, leading museum directors, curators, and art historians from around the world will share their perspectives through lectures, panel discussions, and case studies.

Derived from Ancient Greek, the term ‘museum’ originally referred to a temple dedicated to the Muses. In more recent times, it has been used and construed differently in contemporary cultures to reflect a range of diverse practices.

In Russian, however, the word ‘museum’ remains most often associated with the sole function of historic conservation, and unlike current European and American traditions, the Museum is described as ‘influential’ rather than ‘friendly’ and ‘responsive’; ‘reserved’ rather than ‘dynamic’ and ‘reflexive’.

Finding a native equivalent to the adjectives ‘reflexive’ and ‘responsive’ in the in the conference’s title therefore proved challenging. Thus, for its Russian title, Garage has used the epithet ‘resolute’ to underscore the conference’s goals: first, to invite the Russian museum community to learn about the many possibilities for progress and development, and second, to act in accordance with the legacy of the Russian avant-garde artists, who created the first revolutionary model for a museum “intended to collect all kinds of existing art undergoing a change and designed to exert influence on life using it” (Kazimir Malevich, The Museum of Artistic Culture).

Speakers: Zdenka Badovinac, Director, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana; Claire Bishop, Professor of Contemporary Art, Theory and Exhibition History, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York; Massimiliano Gioni, Associate Director and Director of Exhibitions, New Museum, New York; Ekaterina Golovatyuk, architect, OMA architectural studio, Rotterdam; Maria Gough, Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Professor of Modern Art, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University; Marina Loshak, Director, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; Jack Persekian, Director and Head Curator, Palestinian Museum, Birzeit; Christian Rattemeyer, Harvey S. Shipley Miller Associate Curator, Department of Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Natalia Samoilenko, General Director, Tsaritsyno State Museum- Reserve; Zelfira Tregulova, General Director, The Federal State Budget Institution of Culture of the State Museum and Exhibition Center ROSIZO, Moscow; Dominic Willsdon, Leanne & George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Programs, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Adjunct Professor in Curatorial Practice, California College of the Arts, San Francisco; Vasili Tsereteli, Executive Director, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow.

Admission is free, but spaces are limited. To participate in the conference, please complete an application form and email it to [email protected] before 17 March 2014.

For further information, please call + 7 (495) 645 05 20.

Conference Partner: Moscow Department of Culture, Directorate of Educational Programs

ABOUT GARAGE

Founded in 2008, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture is an independent platform for new thinking in Moscow. Through an extensive program of exhibitions, events, research, education, and publishing, Garage reflects on current developments in Russian and international culture, creating opportunities for public dialogue and the production of new work and ideas.

Garage is a project of The IRIS Foundation, founded by Dasha Zhukova.

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