Institutional Genealogies – performance art and the museum
Welcome to a one-day programme of reflections on how performance art and art institutions influence each other today!
Institutional Genealogies will be a unique opportunity to encounter forward-looking reflections from artists, curators, and conservators who work with performance locally and internationally. Rather than adressing performance through fixed categories, the programme’s focal point is how the art form can transmute and affect institutional frameworks and vice versa.
The one-day seminar brings together voices which collectively weave reflections on exhibition-making, surprising stories of custodianship and mediation, perspectives from critical artistic practices, conversations about the purpose and ethics of conservation, and a performance lecture.
Schedule
10.00-10.30: Doors open with coffee, tea, and light breakfast
10.30-11.20
Maren Dagny Juell: The Guided Tour
Welcome and introduction
Hendrik Folkerts: The Restless Museum
11.20-11.30: Short break
11.30-12.30
Alison Burstein: Fluxing the Modern: The Silverman Fluxus Collection at The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Lotte Løvholm: Acquiring an immaterial work inhabited by spirits
12.30-13.30: Lunch break
13.30-14.45
Jina Chang: The Performance Problem: Caring for the Ephemeral in a Concrete World
Ana Ribeiro: Recalibrate! The Conservation of Choreographic Artworks at Tate.
Saša Asentić: Rethinking the Collection: Disability-led Performance in the Museum
14.45-15.00: Short break
15.00-16.00
Kjersti Solbakken: Rendering Grounds
Helle Siljeholm: The Performance of a Museum During a Genocide
16.00-16.15: Short break
16.15-16.45
Mijke van der Drift and Nikhil Vettukattil: The Commodification of Dissent: institutional earnestness and the order of the audience
16.45-17.30
Responses, moderated by Håkon Lillegraven, programme curator
17.30: Programme finished
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The seminar ticket includes light food and refreshments throughout the day. Student tickets are discounted. All tickets to the seminar include entry to the museum.
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"In the Moment" is kindly supported by Lise M Stolt-Nielsen and her family. Through this engagement the Stolt-Nielsen family wishes to contribute to Norwegian and international performance art.
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