Public Forum: Imagining Museums
Friday 23 October 2009. 11-6pm
Tickets: £30 (£20 concessions) includes lunch
Ikon Gallery, 1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham, B1 2HS
Ikon invites you to join in a debate on the future of museums in the light of the proposed new museum of contemporary art for Birmingham. With leading curators from the UK and around the world, our three panel sessions will explore issues of collecting in the 21st Century and developing innovative learning and research programmes.
This forum is relevant to curators, museum and gallery educators, arts managers, collectors and lecturers.
Panellists include: Ekaterina Degot (Russia), Alex Farquharson (Nottingham Contemporary, UK), Ann Gallagher (Tate, UK), Teresa Gleadowe (UK), Paulo Herkenhoff (Brazil), Huang Du (Today Art Museum, China), Enrique Juncosa (IMMA, Ireland), Helen Legg (Ikon, UK), Frances Morris (Tate, UK), Ruth Noack (Germany), Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine, UK), Nigel Prince (Ikon, UK), Jinsuk Suh (Loop, Korea), Jonathan Watkins (Ikon, UK).
For more information
Please contact Annabel Clarke: 0121 248 0708
To book tickets
Please contact Ikon on 0121 248 0711. Monday-Sunday 10.30am-6pm
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Public Forum: Imagining Museums
Friday 23 October 2009. 11-6pm
Agenda
10.30 Registration and refreshments
11.00 Introduction
11.30Collecting & Curating: What Now?
This session addresses the mismatch between the traditional trajectory of museums and what is appropriate now, given radical changes in the art world. We understand that a work of art is no longer defined as a self-contained object or gesture, so what is it exactly? From Benin, India, France, Polynesia, Canada, China etc. - how do we account for it, collect it, and account for our collection of it? Is context everything? Johannes Claddersbelieved that artists make work and the museum (as a ‘viewer’)makes works of art. What could that mean, especially in the light of an unstoppable internationalism? How free and open can a museum be?
1 – 2.30 Lunch
Café Ikon
2.30 Expanding Audiences
The second session addresses the current growth and increased diversity of museum audiences. Who are they? How are museums changing in the way they conceive of their audiences? How should they change? What is possible now for museums - their dealings with art, artists and audiences - through online activity? What is now the potential of partnerships with schools, universities and other institutions of higher education, cross art form collaborations,community and public art projects etc?
4.00 Afternoon tea
4.30 Open Forum
International and UK curators, and members of the audience are invited to answer questions arising from previous sessions. Followed by drinks, and an opportunity to meet panellists individually.