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Between the Discursive and the Immersive

A Symposium on Research in 21st Century Art Museums

The conference Between the Discursive and the Immersive was held at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art 3-4 December 2015. Organized jointly with the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the conference aimed to stimulate a critical debate on the potentialities of art museums as research based institutions. Research occupies a greater and more autonomous role in modern and contemporary art museums than ever. This independent, often interdisciplinary form of programming has led to discussions of a “curatorialization of education” or a “discursive turn” in the museum sector. At the same time, a major part of the knowledge production in twentyfirst century art museums results in exhibitions and collection displays created to offer audiences unique sensorial or immersive experiences. Museums are thus increasingly embracing a synaesthetic dispositif, an experiential model of curating, to engage their publics.

On this background, this conference aims to create a forum for discussing models for research that take into account the institutional specificities of modern and contemporary art museums. How can exhibitions function as mediums for research? How can artistic research contribute to art museums? What is the research value of (immersive) exhibitions? What is the role of the sensory experience in gathering and disseminating knowledge in the museum? What is the function of “public programs” as curatorial models for research? How do audiences contribute to the museum’s knowledge production?

Organizing committee:

Marie Laurberg, Curator & Head of Research, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Irene Campolmi, PhD Fellow, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Margriet Shavemaker, Manager of Education, Interpretation and Publication, Stedelijk Museum
Hendrik Folkerts, Curator, Documenta 14     

Supported by:

Danish Agency for Culture
Novo Nordisk Foundation
Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Aarhus University

 

Poul Erik Tøjner, Director, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Poul Erik Tøjner: Welcome

Marie Laurberg, Curator & Head of Research, Louisiana

 

Marie Laurberg: Introduction

Collective Scholarship: Knowledge Production in the Museum

Francesco Manacorda

Theme: Exhibitions as Research

Looters, Smugglers and Collectors: Provenance Research and the Market

Tone Hansen

Theme: Exhibitions as Research

Notes on the Research-Based Exhibition: Dialectical Optics and the Problem of Positivism

Anselm Franke

Theme: Exhibitions as Research

Anselm Franke, Tone Hansen & Francesco Manacorda

Q&A

The Museum Is the Massage

Mark Wigley

Theme: Sensorial Knowledge

Reading the Senses

Valentijn Byvanck

Theme: Sensorial Knowledge

Affective, Immersive – and Critical Collection Exhibition?

Saara Hacklin

Theme: Sensorial Knowledge

Walking, Looking and Longing

Mette Houlberg Rung

Theme: Sensorial Knowledge

Signs of Life

Felicity Fenner

Theme: Sensorial Knowledge

The Immersive Art Exhibition: Working with the Sensorial and Dramaturgical

Anne-Mette Villumsen

Theme: Sensorial Knowledge

Black Mountain and Beyond

Annette Jael Lehmann, Anna-Lena Werner

Theme: Practice as research

Constructing the Practitioner-Researcher within the Art Museum

Emily Pringle

Theme: Practice as Research

The Museum as Location of Research: The Creator Doctus Model

Jeroen Boomgaard

Theme: Practice as Research

Curating Research, Staging Education, Learning at Former West

Barbara Mahlknecht

Theme: Practice as Research

Against Inter-Disciplinarity: The Case of the New Art School

Yuval Etgar

Theme: Practice as Research

Dialogue: The ‘Discursive Turn’ Reconsidered

Maria Finders & Hendrik Folkerts

Q & A

Redistributing Knowledge and Practice in the
Art Museum
 

Victoria Walsh

Theme: Curating Public Knowledge

Exhibitions as Atmospheres

Johanna Burton

Theme: Curating Public Knowledge

Victoria Walsh and Johanna Burton

Q&A

From an Institution of Critique to an Administration
of Disruption

João Enxuto, Erica Love

Theme: Curating Public Knowledge

Thinking in Public: The Growing Role of Public/Interpretation Programmes at the Design Museum London

Helen Charmann

Theme: Curating Public Knowledge

Painting into a Corner: Mediation in the Age of the Discursive Turn

Angela Bartholomew

Theme: Curating Public Knowledge

A Thought Never Unfolds in One Straight Line: On the Exhibition as Alternative Thinking Space

Christel Vesters

Theme: Curating Public Knowledge

125,660 Specimens of Natural History: Speechless among the Collection 

Anna-Sophie Springer

Theme: Best Practices

Formalising Everyday Education. On Home Works: A Forum on Cultural Practice in Beirut 2002-2015

Sidsel Nelund

Theme: Best Practices

Curator vs Exhibition Maker = Artist vs Storyteller

Alessio Rosati

Theme: Best Practices

A Pendaflex for the Future: A Curatorial Research Project into the Exhibition Archive at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter

Milena Høgsberg

Theme: Best Practices

Object-Based Research and the Growing Interest in the ‘Biographies of Things’ at the Staatlichte Museen zu Berlin

Angela Fischel

Theme: Best Practices

Welcome, We Are Closed. The Case of Centro Pecci, Prato

Mario Pagano

Theme: Best Practices

Reflections on Thomas Hirschhorn’s Gramsci Monument and on the Institutional challenge of Harboring Criticality

Margrethe Troensengaard

Theme: Best Practices

Eden, Arden, Oblivion

Thomas J. Lax

Theme: Rethinking the Canon

Thomas J. Lax

Q&A

If You Had a Year to Change Something What Would You Do? 

Joseph Kendra

Theme: Rethinking the Canon

Sustain: Time and Reflexivity in Contemporary Art and Museums 

Michelle Dezember

Theme: Rethinking the Canon

Narrative Theories and Learning in Museums: A Theoretical Exploration 

Emilie Sitzia

Theme: Rethinking the Canon

From ‘Historicizing’ to ‘Participating’: Research through Curating 
Socially Engaged Artistic Practices 

Sipei Lu

Theme: Rethinking the Canon

What Museum Researchers Can Learn from Artistic Researchers, and Vice Versa 

Ólöf Gerður Sigfúsdottir

Theme: Rethinking the Canon

The Warmth Left by Someone Else in the Seat of a Chair 

Molly Nesbit

Closing Session

The Warmth Left by Someone Else in the Seat of a Chair

Molly Nesbit

Q&A

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