e-flux and Walker Art Center present
Avant Museology, a symposium exploring the practices and sociopolitical implications of contemporary museology, and taking place this November in two parts: at the Brooklyn Museum and at the Walker Art Center.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition,
Avant Museology is a two - day symposium (November 20 — 21) copresented by the Walker, e-flux, and the University of Minnesota Press.
Visit the official
Avant Museology symposium website.
Avant Museology is a a two - day symposium exploring the practices and sociopolitical implications of contemporary museology.
In conjunction with the exhibition Question the Wall Itself,
Avant Museology will be followed by a program in the Walker's Skyline Room: Lounge Act at the Thek Lounge.
Avant Museology will coincide with the opening of Question the Wall Itself (November 20, 2016 — May 21, 2017), an exhibition curated by Walker Art Center Artistic Director Fionn Meade with Jordan Carter, featuring the work of Jonathas de Andrade, Uri Aran, Nina Beier, Marcel Broodthaers, Tom Burr, Alejandro Cesarco, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Theaster Gates, Ull Hohn, Janette Laverrière / Nairy Baghramian, Louise Lawler, Nick Mauss, Park McArthur, Lucy McKenzie, Shahryar Nashat, Walid Raad, Seth Siegelaub, Paul Sietsema, Florine Stettheimer, Rosemarie Trockel, Danh Vo, Cerith Wyn Evans, and Akram Zaatari.
Avant Museology is a two - day symposium exploring the practices and sociopolitical implications of contemporary museology.
Avant Museology is a two - day symposium copresented by the Walker Art Center, e-flux, and the University of Minnesota Press.
Not exact matches
Taking its cue from the recently published book
Avant - Garde
Museology, the symposium will address the memory machine of the contemporary museum vis - à - vis its relationship to the contemporary artistic practices, sociopolitical contexts, and theoretical legacies that shape and animate it.
And yet, though the early decades of 20th - century Russia have been firmly registered in today's art history as a time of radical social and artistic change, the uncompromising and often absurd ideas in
Avant - Garde
Museology appear alien to a contemporary art history that explains suprematism and constructivism in terms of formal abstraction.
Marxist
museology appeared to provide a possible solution to the dilemma the historical
avant — garde posed to artistic institutions.
The editor of
Avant — Garde
Museology reflects upon the main conclusions drawn from his research for the book.
Zhilyaev is the editor of
Avant - Garde
Museology (V - a-c Press with e-flux and University of Minnesota Press, 2015).
Edited by Arseny Zhilyaev,
Avant - Garde
Museology documents the progressivism of the period, with texts by Alexander Bogdanov, Nikolai Fedorov, Kazimir Malevich, Andrey Platonov, Aleksandr Rodchenko, and many others — several of which are translated into English for the first time.
Avant - Garde
Museology book presentation and discussion between Arseny Zhilyaev and Stanislav Savitsky.
The symposium is based on the book
Avant - Garde
Museology, edited by Arseny Zhilyaev, -LSB-...]