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Hello Could you please be so kind as to post or circulate the following conference announcement on your emailing list?
MANY THANKS - - Tina Weidner Assistant Time-based Media Conservator Tate Collection, 7-14 Mandela Way London SE1 5SR t +44 [0] 20 7887 8526 f +44 [0] 20 7887 8585 m +44 [0] 79 6655 8943 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Shifting practice, shifting roles? Artists> '> Installations and the museum > Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium, March 22nd 2007, 9.15 > -> 18.30 > £25 (£15 concessions), booking recommended. For tickets call 020 7887 8888 or > visit website > http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/7633.htm > > This conference explores the idea that artists> '> installations draw into > sharp focus the way in which contemporary artistic practice can shift the > organizational logic of the museum. Where is the dividing line between the > artist and the curator? How should artists> '> installations be conserved > and reinstalled? How does this practice affect notions of artistic > authorship? This conference will look at places of friction and resistance > between contemporary art and traditional museum conventions, and consider how > the roles of conservator and curator are evolving in response to particular > artistic practices. > > > Saskia Sassen will examine how major global changes are reflected in some of > the basic tenets of the museum (Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the > University of Chicago, and Centennial Visiting Professor of Political Economy > in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics) > Jill Sterrett will consider the museum> '> s response to installation art in > terms of shifting practices within conservation and the challenges of > custodianship. (Director of Collections San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) > Bruce Altshuler will present a paper on Exhibition, Collection, Re-creation > (Director of the Program in Museum Studies, Graduate School of Arts and > Science, New York University) > Claire Bishop will present a paper entitled What is a curator? in which she > will consider the simultaneous emergence of installation art, institutional > critique and the independent curator in the period 1968-72. (Assistant > Professor in Art History at University of Warwick) > Alex Farquharson will present a paper entitled When can an exhibition be a > work of art? In which he will consider the exhibition as work of art through > the practices of artist-curators, performative curators and experimental > exhibition designers (Freelance curator and critic and Research Fellow, Royal > College of Art) > Teresa Gleadowe (Former Director of the Curating Contemporary Art Department > at the Royal College of Art (1992-2006), freelance curator and writer) > Moderator > Vivian van Saaze will present a paper entitled Doing artworks. An > ethnographic study into a case study of the Inside Installations> '> project > which explores how the acquisition, presentation and preservation of > installation art challenges the working practices of the contemporary art > museum with particular reference to the work of Pierre Huyghe and Philippe > Parreno. (Ph.D. candidate Maastricht University, Faculty of Arts and Social > Sciences, and the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage) > Andrzej Przywara, a director of the Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, > Poland, will speak about issues raised by the project to preserve the studio > of Edward Krasinski in the Warsaw apartment he took over from the Polish > constructivist Henryk Stazewski. He will also speak about work undertaken in > preparation for the retrospective exhibition of Krasinski> '> s work > presented by the Generali Foundation in Vienna last summer. > Daniel Roesler, Gallery Nara Roesler, will speak about the reconstruction of > Oiticica> '> s Cosmococa > -> CC4 Nocagions > > The meeting is the last in a series organized across Europe as part of a > project funded by Culture 2000 > "> Inside Installations: the preservation > and presentation of Installation art> "> . > > > > > > >
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