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
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
