The Co-Creative Museum: Social Agency, Ethics, and Heritage

What is a co-creative museum? How can a museum strengthen mutuality among its component communities? When is it legitimate to speak about the collective creation of programmes in an institutional context? How can the construction and care of patrimony and heritage find a correlation in the relationships the museum fosters with its diverse communities? For the first time in CIMAM’s history, the Conference will focus on the social role of the art museum, a function that lies at the heart of museum practices in Latin America, where many museums vigorously respond to economic contexts characterized by inequality and vulnerability. Speakers from the 5 continents will address the institutional possibilities developed worldwide to position the arts as a vehicle for the development of effective micropolitics towards social transformation, community-building and the promotion of social justice.

Day 1: Thursday, November 9
How Can Museums Embrace their Social Responsibility? A Question from the Americas

Guest speakers:
–Elvira Espejo Ayca, Artist and Director, Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore, La Paz
–Pablo Lafuente, Artistic Director, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
–Simon Njami, Independent Curator, Paris
–Nicolás Testoni, Director, Ferrowhite—museo taller, Bahía Blanca
–Coco Fusco, Artist and Professor, Cooper Union, Brooklyn

Day 2: Friday, November 10
The Role of Museums in Communities, Education, and Accessibility

Guest speakers:
–Luis Camnitzer, Artist, Great Neck, NY
–Teresa Cisneros, Senior Practice Manager, Culture Equity Diversity Inclusion, Wellcome Trust, London
–Marie Hélène Pereira, Curatorial Advisor, RAW Material Company, Dakar, Senior Curator (performative practices), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
–Ana Gallardo, Artist, Mexico City

Day 3: Saturday, November 11
How Can Museums Collect, Preserve and Protect Cultural Heritage While Creating New Communities?

Guest speakers:
–Yto Barrada, Artist, Brooklyn/Tangier
–Marian Pastor Roces, Curator and Principal Partner, TAOINC, Metropolitan Manila
–A Dialogue between María Belén Correa, Director and Founder, Archivo de la Memoria Trans Argentina (Argentinian Trans Memory Archive), Hanover, and Sidhi Vhisatya, Curator, Queer Indonesia Archive, Jimbaran, Bali
–Luma Hamdan, Director, Darat al Funun‚The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman
–Claudia Zaldívar, Director, Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago de Chile

The contents of the 2023 Annual Conference have been thought and designed by the Contents Committee consisting of CIMAM Board members:
–Victoria Noorthoorn, (Chair of the Contents Committee), Director, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires
–Amanda de la Garza, Director, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City
–Clara M. Kim, Chief Curator & Director of Curatorial Affairs, MOCA, Los Angeles
–Malgorzata Ludwisiak, Artistic Director, The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
–Chus Martínez, Director, Art Gender Nature Institute HGK, Basel
–Yu Jin Seng, Deputy Director (Curatorial & Research), National Gallery Singapore

The Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, under the auspices of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, is the main host and organizer of the next Annual Conference.

The 55th Annual Conference has also been made possible thanks to the generous support of:
–Fundación Ama Amoedo, José Ignacio, Uruguay and Colección AMALITA, Buenos Aires
–Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires
–Malba (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires)
–Andrea Arditi Schwartz, Buenos Aires
–Asociación Amigos del Moderno, Buenos Aires
–Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport

CIMAM is deeply grateful to the institutions and individuals that have supported this year’s Travel Grant Program:
–The Getty Foundation, Los Angeles
–ArtHaus, Buenos Aires
–Aimée Labarrere de Servitje, Mexico
–Byucksan Cultural Foundation, Seoul
–Eloisa Haudenschild, United States
–Embassy of Brazil, Buenos Aires
–Fernando Zobel de Ayala, Manila
–Mercedes Vilardell, London/Mallorca
–OCA—Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo
–Saastamoinen Foundation, Helsinki
–SAHA—Supporting Contemporary Art from Turkey, Istanbul
–Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka