Museum in ¿Motion? Conference

Museum in ¿Motion? Conference

Jan van Eyck Academie

November 10, 2004

Museum in ¿Motion? Conference
12–13 November 2004

Jan van Eyck Academie

Jan van Eyck Academie / Museum het Domein / Department of Architecture & Urban Planning Ugent

www.museuminmotion.tk

General inquiries Wouter Davidts, Department of Architecture & Urban Planning,
Ghent University
ewouter.davidts@ugent.be
t+ 32 (0) 9 264 37 42

Location
12 November Museum Het Domein
Kapittelstraat 6, Postbus 230
6130 AE Sittard – the Netherlands www.hetdomein.nl
13 November Jan van Eyck Academie
Academieplein 1
6211 KM Maastricht – the Netherlands www.janvaneyck.nl

Museum in ¿Motion? intends to trace the history of the critical correlation between contemporary art and the museum, to chart the various institutional responses, and to place this within the broader context of socio-political changes. The title literally refers to one of the most important publications of the 1970s on the museum discussion of that era: Museum in ¿Motion? The modern art museum at issue / Museum in ¿Beweging? Het museum voor moderne kunst ter diskussie, published in 1979. Speakers will discuss the fundamental changes that have occurred since its publication precisely one quarter of a century ago.

Are museums still confronted with the same problems? When precisely did the dream of the mobile or living museum come into being? Which forms and strategies of mobility have so far been developed? Where does the real motion stop and rhetoric come in? Is the critical relationship between art and the museum still a subject of discussion? Do the massive socio-political changes in our society confront the museum with a much bigger challenge? How are we to define the future role of the museum of contemporary art, being a pre-eminent public institution?

The conference Museum in ¿Motion? comprises two meeting formats. On Friday 12 November, a symposium with invited speakers is held at Museum Het Domein in Sittard. On Saturday 13 November, a seminar is organized that presents three sessions, two of which are based on an international call for papers, and a third on the results of a closed architecture competition at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht.

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Programme Symposium
12 November 2004

Location Museum Het Domein Sittard www.hetdomein.nl/

9:00
Start conference
film screening of ‘De Langste Dag’ (1986) by Jef Cornelis (06:15:48)

9:45
Welcome Stijn Huijts

10:00 – 10:20 Wouter Davidts Museum in ¿Motion?

10:20 – 11:00 Alan Wallach “The Museum of Modern Art as Late Capitalist Ritual” Twenty-Five Years Later: Distinction versus Consumerism in the Display of Contemporary Art

11:00 – 11:20
discussion

11:20 – 12:00 Christian Kravagna The World in the Museum: Ethnography, Culture, and Critical Art Practice

12:00 – 12:20
discussion

12:20 – 14:00
lunch

14:00 – 14:40 John Welchman The Museum: Architecture / Sculpture (Gehry)

14:40 – 15:00
discussion

15:00 – 15:40 Camiel Van Winkel The Viewer is Never at Home

15:40 – 16:00
discussion

16:00 – 16:40 Johanne Lamoureux Para-Sites

16:40 – 17:00
discussion

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Programme Seminar
13 November 2004

Location Jan van Eyck Academie Maastricht www.janvaneyck.nl/

9:45
welcome

SESSION 1
The Museum: Dreams of a Mobile Architecture
Chair Jeroen Boomgaard

10:00 – 10:20 Andrea Philips Walking into Trouble. Contemporary Art and the Pedestrian

10:20 – 10:40
questions

10:40 – 11:00 Naomi Stead Decontextualisation, Autonomy, and the Neo-Avant-Garde:
Institutional Critique and Museum Criticism

11:00 – 11:20
questions

11:20 – 11:40 Joel Sanders Skin Deep: Transparency and Contemporary Museum Building

11:40 – 12:00
questions

12:00 – 12:30
plenary discussion

SESSION 2
Museum and Typology
Chair: Bart Verschaffel

14:00 – 14:20 Christoph Grafe Cultural Centres in Europe

14:20 – 14:40
questions

14:40 – 15:00 Lieven De Boeck & Teresa Stoppani The Architect and the Millionaire, the Individual and the City, and the Making of the Scattered Museum

15:00 – 15:20 questions

15:20 – 15:40 Wendy Meryem Kural Shaw The Project of the Museum and its Projections: Museums and the Construction of Identities in the Museums of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey

15:40 – 16:00
questions

16:00 – 16:30
plenary discussion

SESSION 3
Design Competition: Our Museum
Jury: Jouke Kleerebezem, Chris Dercon, Roemer Van Toorn

20:00 – 20:15
Office (Kersten Geers & David Van Severen), Dries Van de Velde & Richard Venlet

20:15 – 20:30
Fijn Design Consultancy (Johan De Wachter, Cesar Garcia & Paz Martin), MAMA Showroom & Alicia Framis

20:30 – 20:45
One Architecture (Matthijs Bouw & Donald van Dansik) & Berend Strik

20:45 – 21:00
break

21:00 – 22:00
jury discussion

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Practical Information
Admission
Tickets
12 November
Museum Het Domein Sittard
(light lunch included)

All tickets can be picked up and paid for at the main entrance of Museum Het Domein on 12 November from 9 a.m. onwards.

13 November
Jan van Eyck Akademie
free entrance
Registration
Advance booking for 12 November is mandatory. Please register via e-mail before 11 November at museuminmotion@hetdomein.nl
Contact and registration by telephone Maaike Frencken, Museum Het Domein Sittard
maaike.frencken@hetdomein.nl
t+31 (0) 46 451 3460
General inquiries Wouter Davidts, Department of Architecture & Urban Planning, Ghent University
ewouter.davidts@ugent.be
t+ 32 (0) 9 264 37 42
Location
12 November Day Programme
Museum Het Domein
Kapittelstraat 6
Postbus 230
6130 AE Sittard – the Netherlands www.hetdomein.nl
13 November
Jan van Eyck Academie
Academieplein 1
6211 KM Maastricht – the Netherlands www.janvaneyck.nl

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