FRIDAY
PETEK
26/05/2023
10.00 ︎︎︎ 18.00
@Museum of Contemporary Art (+MSUM)International conference
Mednarodna konferenca
Museums for the Future
Muzeji za prihodnost
In his famous essay from the early 1990s, “On the Museum’s Ruins,” the American art historian and activist Douglas Crimp describes art museums as sepulchers of artworks. This international conference, organized at a time of recurring crises, presents museums and art institutions that have been destroyed physically and/or symbolically, focusing – instead of on their destruction and ruins – on that vital part of museum institutions that continues to work for the good of the artists and the wider community, despite and in the face of often impossible circumstances. In this way it underscores that radical hope rises from the ruins.
The conference will consist of three panel discussions, moderated by the Moderna galerija's curators Bojana Piškur, Igor Španjol and Adela Železnik.
Participants: Yazid Anani, A. M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah; Zdenka Badovinac, MSU Zagreb; Marianna Dobkowska, Ujazdowski Castle CCA, Warsaw; Andreja Hribernik, Kunsthaus Graz; Kateryna Iakovlenko (on line), Kyiv; Goran Injac, Mladinsko Theatre, Ljubljana; Iva Kovač, City of Women, Ljubljana; Natalija Majsova, UL Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana; Pablo Martinez, Madrid; Tanja Petrović, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana; Nora Prekazi, Museum of Mitrovica, Mitrovica; Bogna Stefanska, MSN, Warsaw
Ameriški umetnostni zgodovinar in aktivist Douglas Crimp je na začetku devetdesetih let prejšnjega stoletja v svojem znamenitem eseju »On the Museum's Ruins« (Na ruševinah muzeja) umetnostne muzeje označil kot prostore mrtvih. Mednarodna konferenca, ki jo organiziramo v času ponavljajočih se kriz, se po eni strani osredotoča na muzeje in institucije, ki so bili uničeni tako fizično kot na simbolni ravni, a bolj kot na samo uničenje in njihove ruševine se konferenca osredotoča na tisti vitalni del muzejskih institucij, ki kljub mnogokrat nemogočim okoliščinam ali uničenju delujejo v dobro umetnikov in širše skupnosti. Po drugi strani konferenca opozarja, da iz ruševin vznikne tudi radikalno upanje.
Konferenca bo organizirana v obliki treh okroglih miz, ki jih bodo moderirali kustosi MG+MSUM Bojana Piškur, Igor Španjol in Adela Železnik.
Udeleženci: Yazid Anani, Qattan fundacija, Ramala; Zdenka Badovinac, MSU Zagreb; Marianna Dobkowska, Ujazdowski Castle CCA, Varšava; Andreja Hribernik, Kunsthaus Gradec; Katerina Jakovlenko (preko spleta), Kijev; Goran Injac, Mladinsko gledališče, Ljubljana; Iva Kovač, Mesto žensk, Ljubljana; Natalija Majsova, UL FDV, Ljubljana; Pablo Martinez, Madrid; Tanja Petrović, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana; Nora Prekazi, Muzej Mitrovica, Mitrovica; Bogna Stefanska, MSN, Varšava