CIMAM 2007 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
CONTEMPORARY INSTITUTIONS AS PRODUCERS IN LATE CAPITALISM
20 – 22 August, 2007 — Generali Foundation, Vienna
Generali Foundation
Wiedner Hauptstraße 15
1040 Wien, Austria
T +43 1 504 98 80
foundation@generali.at
foundation.generali.at
CIMAM (International Committee of ICOM for Museums and Collections of Modern Art) will
present Contemporary Institutions as Producers in Late Capitalism, a 2-day conference to be held at Generali Foundation on August 20 – 21, 2007 with the attendance of 120 museum directors and curators from 45 countries.
CIMAM’s Annual Conference is developing as the most important forum for communication, collaboration and information exchange between museum professionals, artists and others concerned with issues arising in the field of modern and contemporary art. Its guiding principle is the presentation of new, unpublished work followed by open discussion. One of the aims of CIMAM’s Annual Meeting is to facilitate innovative possibilities for partnerships between modern and contemporary art professionals from diverse regions of the world in the development of common projects.
The 2-day format of the meeting will comprise 3 sessions,
– the museum as a public sphere and its audience,
– beyond museums, and
– research, education, production and dissemination of knowledge.
The conference has been structured to elicit both in-depth thinking and creative responses on a question that we consider central in museum and art practice today: the shift of paradigms that we are experiencing in museum policies. While acquisition and collecting, conservation and preserving, scientific work and research, exhibiting and publishing as well as education are still the official agenda, contemporary art museums and institutions have to cope with issues of very different kind in order to legitimate their existence.
Conference speakers include: Alfred Pacquement — President of CIMAM and Director, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Sabine Breitwieser — Director, Generali Foundation, Vienna; Peter Weibel — artist, curator, art- and media theoretician, Director ZKM; Karlsruhe; Charles Esche — director Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Chantal Mouffe — political theorist, University of Westminster, London; Georg Schöllhammer — author, curator and editor in chief of Documenta 12 magazines, Vienna; Ann Goldstein — senior curator, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Alte Arte/Pavel Braila — artist, Chisinau/Moldavia and Berlin/Germany; Natasa Ilic — curator of What, How and for Whom, Zagreb; Florian Pumhösl — artist and editor of montage, Vienna; Christian Höller — art and culture theorist, editorial board of Springerin, Vienna; Visiting Professor for Cultural Studies, École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Geneva; Lisette Lagnado — chief curator 27ª Bienal de São Paulo; Gerald Raunig — philosopher, www.eipcp.net, Vienna; East Art Map/IRWIN — artist group, Ljubljana/Slovenia, presented by Miran Mohar and Borut Vogelnik and Beatrice von Bismarck — pro-fessor of Art History and Visual Culture, Acadamy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Leipzig/ Berlin.
The 2007 Annual Conference is made possible by the support of Generali Foundation,
Erste Bank, ICOM – International Council of Museums, Dorotheum and www.NOUS-Guide.com
Generali Foundation kindly supported by Akustik Blasch, Axima Gebäudetechnik,
Hazet Baugesellschaft, LHD Küchen, Ortner Haustechnik, Otis Aufzüge, Porr Baugesellschaft, Rauhofer Elektro and Schindler Aufzüge
Travel Grant support is available thanks to the generosity of The Getty Foundation and
Open Society Institute.
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