A quick heads up about a forthcoming symposium at Loughborough University organised by the Museums, Markets and Critical Heritage Research Group.
Here’s the programme:
9.00–9.30 Registration and Coffee
9.30–9.45 Introduction, Kathryn Brown (Loughborough University)
9.45–10.15 The Art Museum of the Future – A Dystopia?, Julia Voss
(Leuphana University, Lüneburg)
10.15–10.45 Artistic Freedom in a Complex Society, Martin Myrone
(Tate Britain)
10.45–11.00 Discussion
11.00–11.15 Break: Tea/Coffee
11.15–12.15 Panel 1
Museums, Collections, and Trustees: the Public/Private Divide
Nizan Shaked (College of the Arts, California State University)
Private Contributions to Museums’ Collecting Practices in
Brazil: Interdependency, Convergence, and Conflicts
Ana Letícia Fialho (Office of Cultural Economy, Brazilian
Ministry of Culture)
Museums’ Massive Deaccessions as a New Collecting Practice
Eva Szereda (Independent Scholar, Lausanne)
12.15–12.40 Discussion
12.40–13.30 Lunch
13.30–14.00 The Ethics of the Art Market: When Financial Products Shape
Content
Sébastien Montabonel (Art Institutions of the 21st Century
Foundation, London)
14.00–14.10 Discussion
14.10–14.50 Panel 2
Ars Electronica Gallery Spaces: The New Platform Connecting
Media Art and the Art Market
Christl Baur (Ars Electronica, Linz)
Customize the Collection? How Contemporary Art Commissioning
Impacts on Museum Collections and Gallery Business
Franziska Wilmsen (Loughborough University)
14.50–15.05 Discussion
15.05–15.20 Break Tea/Coffee
15.20–15.50 The Myth of the Art Market: Neoliberalism in the Social Order
of Contemporary Art
Jonathan Harris (Birmingham City University)
15.50–16.00 Discussion
16.00–17.00 Panel 3
The Musée d’Art Contemporain Africain Al Maaden (MACAAL) in
Marrakech: A Case Study in Collecting and Place-Making
Stephanie Dieckvoss (Kingston University, London)
From Private Collection to Art Canon: The Uli Sigg Collection
Nicola Foster (Southampton Solent University)
Creating a New Canon for a State Collection: Proposals for the
First Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art
Marina Maximova (Loughborough University)
17.00–17.15 Discussion
17.15 Symposium ends
To book a place, register at Eventbrite. It’s only £15 for external delegates, £10 for students/unemployed and free to Loughborough University staff and students!
Image: Frieze NY 2017 art fair by j-No
, used under a Creative Commons licence.