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Radical Museums? Challenging Museums in the Current Moment

Type: Conferences & Symposia [View all]
Posted by: Universities Art Association of Canada
Deadline: Tue, May 1st, 2018

In the introduction to her recent book Disobedient Museums, Kylie Message argues that “museums are not innately ‘useful,’ ‘safe,’ or even ‘public’ places, and that recalibrating our thinking about them might benefit from adopting a more radical and transgressive form of logic and approach.” Taking up Message’s call, this session asks participants to consider both the museum itself and museum and curatorial studies/writing/criticism. What can we learn from the challenging and unsettling of museums by a wide range of groups and communities, across the political spectrum, both historically and in the present? What is it about museums that makes them ideal locations for intervention? What can museums learn from political action and how have they responded (historically and in the present)? Should museums collect protest ephemera, or engage in practices of radical archiving? How are museums themselves encouraging and sustaining political action in the current moment, and across long periods of time? This panel encourages applications from scholars, curators, critics, artists, archivists, activists and others who are considering these issues from a variety of perspectives. While the focus of the call is on authoritative museums, papers considering artist-run centres, micro- and ephemeral institutions, and collections firmly outside of institutional structures are also encouraged.

Conference: UAAC, OCTOBER 25-27 OCTOBRE 2018, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Further submission info here: http://www.uaac-aauc.com/en/news/uaac-conference-2018-call-papers

Please send a 300 word proposal by May 1, 2018 to:

Kirsty Robertson, Western University: kirsty.robertson@uwo.ca

Posted on Thu, March 22nd, 2018
Expires on Tue, May 1st, 2018

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