Stedelijk | Symposium Collecting Geographies: Global Programming and Museums of Modern Art March 13, 14 & 15 2014
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STEDELIJK | SYMPOSIUM COLLECTING GEOGRAPHIES: GLOBAL PROGRAMMING AND MUSEUMS OF MODERN ART MARCH 13, 14 & 15 2014 CONFERENCE PROGRAM & INFO PRINCIPAL SPONSORS GLOBAL COLLABORATIONS: CONFERENCE PARTNERS: STEDELIJK | SYMPOSIUM GLOBAL COLLABORATIONS OPENING KEY-NOTE BY PAMELA M. LEE DAY 1: THURSDAY MARCH 13 LOCATION: STEDELIJK MUSEUM (Teijin Auditorium) REGISTRATION | ENTRANCE HALL STEDELIJK MUSEUM KEYNOTE LECTURES | TEIJIN AUDITORIUM WORKSHOP SESSIONS | STEDELIJK MUSEUM (Founders Room, Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Studio A, Studio B) REGISTRATION ENTRANCE HALL STEDELIJK MUSEUM TEIJIN AUDITORIUM 17:00 – 18:00 18: 00 – 19:00 19:30 – 20:30 Welcome by Jelle Bouwhuis Bouwhuis Key-note lecture Pamela M. Lee 20:30 – 21:30 Discussion with Representatives of the Collaborating Institutions Moderated Q&A by Margriet Schavemaker STEDELIJK | SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION | ENTRANCE HALL STEDELIJK MUSEUM GLOBAL COLLABORATIONS KEYNOTE LECTURES | TEIJIN AUDITORIUM DAY 2: FRIDAY MARCH 14 WORKSHOP SESSIONS | STEDELIJK MUSEUM (Founders Room, LOCATION: STEDELIJK MUSEUM (Founders Room, Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Studio A, Studio B) Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Studio A, Studio B) EVENING PROGRAM | TROPENMUSEUM AMSTERDAM REGISTRATION EVENING PROGRAM AT AUDITORIUM FOUNDERSROOM MEETING ROOM A MEETING ROOM B STUDIO A STUDIO B SCHIPHOL HAL TEIJIN EXTERNAL LOCATION 10:00 – 11:00 Key-note 11:00 – 12:00 James Clifford 1.1 Pre- 2. Public vs. 5.1 National 9.1 12:00 – 13:00 Modernism Private Museum Narratives Museotopias (part 1) (part 1) (part 1) 13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH IN AUDITORIUM 14:00 – 15:00 1.2 Pre- 3. Curatorial 5.2 National 7.1 Artistic 9.2 Modernism Challenges Narratives Practices Museotopias 15:00 – 16:00 (part 2) (part 2) (part 1) (part 2) 16:00 – 17:00 1.3 Pre- 4.When 6.New 7.2 Artistic 8.Critical Modernism Institutions Perspectives Practices Readings of 17:00 – 18:00 (part 3) Present (part 2) Global Globalisation Curating (part 1) 18:00 – 20:00 Dinner at own expense 20: 00 – 22:00 Panel Discussion Tropenmuseum STEDELIJK | SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION | ENTRANCE HALL STEDELIJK MUSEUM GLOBAL COLLABORATIONS KEYNOTE LECTURES | TEIJIN AUDITORIUM DAY 3: SATURDAY MARCH 15 WORKSHOP SESSIONS | STEDELIJK MUSEUM (Founders Room, LOCATION: STEDELIJK MUSEUM (Founders Room, Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Studio A, Studio B) REGISTRATION AUDITORIUM FOUNDERSROOM MEETING ROOM A MEETING ROOM B STUDIO A STUDIO B SCHIPHOL HAL TEIJIN 10:00 – 11:00 Keynotes 11:00 – 12:00 Annie Cohen-Solal Paul Goodwin 10.Magiciens de 12.The 14.1 Close 8.2 Critical 15.Global la Terre and Reading of Readings of Programming other Post Architecture and it’s 12:00 – 13:00 of Ethnography Collection Global Colonial Practices Curating Discontents Exhibitions (part 1) (part 2) 13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH IN AUDITORIUM 14:00 – 15:00 11.Recalcitrant 13.Other Asians 14.2 Close 8.3 Critical 16.The Geographies Intervening in Reading of Readings of Position of 15:00 – 16:00 Orientalism Collection Global the Practices Curating Museum (part 2) (part 3) 16:00 – 17:00 17:00 – 18:00 Conclusive key- note 18:00 – 19:00 DRINKS IN AUDITORIUM COLLECTING GEOGRAPHIES KEY-NOTES March 13, 19.30-20.30: Pamela M. Lee March 14, 10.30-11.30: James Clifford March 15, 10.30-11.30: Opening Key-note March 15, 17.00-18.00: Wrap-up Wendelien van Oldenborgh, “La Javanaise”, 2012, film still (Photo by Bárbara Wagner). OPENING ADDRESS Jelle Bouwhuis (curator Global Collaborations) DISCUSSION PANELS Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam "Collecting Geographies" March 13, 20.30-21.30: Ann-Sofi Noring (Co-director Moderna Museet) Tobia Bezzola (Director Museum Folkwang) Wayne Modest (Head of Research, Tropenmuseum) Jeroen de Kloet (ASCA/AGS) Moderator: Margriet Schavemaker (Head of Collections and Research at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam) Tropenmuseum "Thinking Globally" March 14, 20.00-22.00: Kader Attia James Clifford Wendelien van Oldenborgh Jette Sandahl Moderator: Leon Wainwright (The Open University and Editor-in-Chief of the Open Arts Journal) Pamela M. Lee Teijin Auditorium March 13, 19.30-20.30 Opening Key-note Prof. Pamela M. Lee received her B.A from Yale University and her Ph.D in the Department of Fine Arts from Harvard University. She also studied at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Her area is the art, theory and criticism of late modernism with a historical focus on the 1960s and 1970s. Among other journals, her work has appeared in October, Artforum, Assemblage, Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, Les Cahiers du Musee national d'arte moderne, Grey Room, Parkett and Texte zur Kunst. A pre-doctoral fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington D.C., a recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship from the Getty Research Institute and a Warhol Foundation/Creative Captal Art Writers Grant, Lee has published four books in addition to journal articles, reviews and catalogue essays. Three books have appeared with the MIT Press: Object to be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2000); Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2004) and Forgetting the Art World (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2012) Another book New Games: Postmodernism after Contemporary Art was published by Routledge in 2012. A French language edition of Object to be Destroyed will be published by Editions Macula, Paris; a Spanish language edition of Chronophobia will be released by El Centro de Documentación y Estudios Avanzados de Arte Contemporáneo (CENDEAC), Murcia, Spain. James Clifford Teijin Auditorium March 14, 10.30-11.30 From ‘The Art World’ to ‘Worlds of Art:’ Globalization and Transformation In a post-Western, interconnected world, how do artistic and cultural practices live in translation? This lecture explores the legacies, pressures and possibilities that determine global programming in museums today, It proposes ways to think dialectically about the conjuncture, with particular reference to emerging indigenous/tribal artists and institutions. James Clifford is Professor Emeritus in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz where he taught for three decades. He is best known for his historical and literary critiques of anthropological representation, travel writing, and museum practices. Clifford co-edited (with George Marcus) the influential intervention, Writing Culture, the Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (1986). Clifford has just published Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the 21st Century (2013), a book that is the third in a trilogy. The first volume, The Predicament of Culture (1988) juxtaposed essays on 20th-century ethnography, literature, and art. The second, Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late 20th Century (1997) explored the dialectics of dwelling and traveling in post-modernity. The three books are inventive combinations of analytic scholarship, meditative essays, and poetic experimentation. Annie Cohen-Solal Teijin Auditorium March 15, 10.30-11.00 Revisiting Magiciens de la terre: A History of Maps, Atlas, and Planispheres Abstract: Twenty five years after it took place at the Centre Pompidou and at the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris, Magiciens de la terre continues to represent a controversial exhibition and to provoke innumerable debates and arguments, both in the museums and in the academia. At stake are, of course, the question of globalization in the art world and the various distorsions which infused both the conception of Magiciens de la terre and the own praxis of its curators. How scientific were the selection criteria? How to justify that the curators embarked on different strategies according to the different continents in which they travelled? And, above all, how to explain so much display of ethnocentrism? At the core of the whole project, in fact, lays the cardinal position that Geography has acquired in the social sciences. The paper will challenge the genealogical framework which permeated Magiciens de la terre and compare it with that of a Jean-Paul Sartre who, as early as 1948, stood up as one of the first post-colonial thinkers: in order to challenge Eurocentrism, he redesigned all geographical maps and, especially, he reconfigured political commitments according to a highly different agenda. Recalling the consequences played by another seminal show -the Armory Show- for most US painters in 1913 New York, and arguing that the geographical map is a genuine political tool, the paper will finally consider a few options for new artistic interactions in the years to come. Annie Cohen-Solal, University Professor, is advisor of the President of Centre Pompidou and High Commissioner of the year «Magiciens de la Terre 2014» Paul Goodwin Teijin Auditorium March 15, 11.00-11.30 In the Belly of the Beast: (Re)Programming the Global Museum This paper discusses a unique critical curatorial experiment at the heart of one of the world’s most influential museums of modern and contemporary art: the Cross Cultural Programme at Tate Britain from 2008-2012. Based in the Learning Department at Tate Britain, the position of Curator of Cross Cultural Programmes was seen as a catalytic role responding to the challenges of globalisation and ‘cultural diversity’; the stated aim of the programme being to “extend the range of Tate Britain’s intellectual life”. The paper analyses the way the Cross Cultural Programme, as a form of integrated programming (Tallant) worked across education and learning departments to curate and programme educational symposia,