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    Current Discourses on Exhibiting and Museum Education: Museums and Exhibitions as Social Spaces – Practices, Positions, Perspectives

    Master Art Education

    Aktuelle Diskurse Ausstellen und Vermitteln: Museum und Ausstellung als gesellschaftlicher Raum,Zürcher Hochschule der Künste

    The seminar / the conference with international guests examine practices, positions and perspectives of “museums and exhibitions as social spaces.” After an introductory event, this will take place along the thematic focuses “Museums and Exhibitions as Contact and Conflict Zones,” “Artistic and Curatorial Practice as Political Intervention” and “Exhibiting Institutions as Critical Authority.” The extent to which museums, exhibiting institutions and exhibitions can function as possibility spaces for democratic negotiation processes will be put up for debate.

    What is actually a museum? It appeared relatively clear for a long period of time that, regardless of whether a museum is operated privately or publicly, whether it is dedicated to art, history or natural history, it “acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment”. This is how the International Council of Museums (ICOM) has defined the institution since 2007. Since 2016, the ICOM has been working on a new definition. Even with the new proposal made in 2019 – which defines museums as polyphonic spaces advocating for social justice, acting in a democratizing way and contributing to planetary wellbeing – the international discussion on what a museum is and what it should be in the future has by no means abated. Recently, the debate on the decolonization of collecting and exhibiting institutions has shown that dominant, (neo)colonial narratives are still being (re)produced and determine the majority of the epistemological foundations on which knowledge orders of exhibiting institutions are based.
    Against this background, the seminar “Current Discourses on Exhibiting and Museum Education” with international guests examine practices, positions and perspectives of “museums and exhibitions as social spaces.” After an introductory event, this will take place along the thematic focuses “Museums and Exhibitions as Contact and Conflict Zones,” “Artistic and Curatorial Practice as Political Intervention” and “Exhibiting Institutions as Critical Authority.”

    The extent to which museums, exhibiting institutions and exhibitions can function as possibility spaces for democratic negotiation processes will be put up for debate. How can museums become polyphonic spaces that lend a voice to previously marginalized positions and make invisible stories visible, while subjecting the foundations of their own knowledge orders to renegotiation? How can exhibitions, with regard to their interplay of diverse actors, artworks and objects with architecture, displays, curatorial concepts, and educational programs, be grasped as experimental setups in social space? To what extent can and should exhibiting institutions go beyond their traditional functions, self-understanding and expertise and become actors of political democratization and social inclusion?

    Dates

    Museum und Ausstellung als gesellschaftlicher Raum
    29.4.2022, 10–17h
    Toni-Areal, Kunstraum, 5.K12, Ebene 5
    mit
    Léontine Meijer-van Mensch
    Absolvent:innen des Master Art Education Curatorial Studies:
    Katrin Bauer, Jonas Bürgi, Julian Denzler, Yulia Fisch, Martina Oberprantacher

    Museen und Ausstellungen als Kontakt- und Konfliktzonen
    13.5.2022, 10–17h
    Toni-Areal, Raum 4.T09, Ebene 4
    mit
    Anna Greve
    Bonaventure Ndikung
    Ismahan Wayah

    Künstlerische und kuratorische Praxis als politische Intervention
    20.5.2022, 10–17h
    Toni-Areal, Raum 4.T09, Ebene 4
    mit
    Kathleen Bühler
    Forensic Architecture
    RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co)

    Ausstellungsinstitutionen als kritische Instanz
    27.5.2022, 10–17h
    Toni-Areal, Raum 4.T09, Ebene 4
    mit Binna Choi
    Clémentine Deliss
    Maria Lind

    Details

    • Project Type

      Dokumentation

    • Field of Study

      Master Art Education

    • Authors

      Sønke Gau, Angeli Sachs, Thomas Sieber

    • Lecturers

      Konzeption und Moderation / conceptualized and moderated by Sønke Gau, Angeli Sachs, Thomas Sieber

    • Contributors / Further collaborators
      Mit / with: Kathleen Bühler, Binna Choi, Clémentine Deliss, Forensic Architecture, Anna Greve, Maria Lind, Léontine Meijer-van Mensch, Bonaventure Ndikung, RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co), Ismahan Wayah, u.a. / a.o.
    • ZHdK_MAE_Curatorial-Studies_Plakat_Aktuelle-Diskurse Ausstellen-und-Vermitteln.pdf