MUSEUM WHY? PRACTICE, AGENCY AND KNOWLEDGE IN THE ART MUSEUM
The conference, “Museum Why? Practice, Agency and Knowledge in the Art Museum,” seeks to deepen our understanding of the constellation of art production, audience commitment, and museum operations. We invite contributions that delve into these practices as a heterogeneous yet entangled set, characterized by numerous, often overlapping, competing, and sometimes contradictory interests, agencies, and power relations.
KEY QUESTIONS
– How can we rethink knowledge production in the art museums of the future?
– How do artistic practices navigate, challenge, and change institutional infrastructures?
– How can increasingly diverse publics be reflected in and by museum practices?
– How can we rethink the unifying logics of preservation, archive, and collection?
– How can museum dissemination reflect contemporary ideas of representation?
– How can museums become critical, relevant, and significant actors in their communities?
– How can we diversify knowledges, historical analyses, and creative thinking?
– How can we co-create and integrate museum knowledge and academic scholarship?
PROPOSAL
Please submit your abstract proposal (max 250 words) and a short bio (max 50 words) to pass@hum.ku.dk no later than March 8, 2024. We welcome academic papers and artists’ and practitioners’ presentations (20 mins), as well as group panels (90 mins). Notification of acceptance no later than March 22, 2024.
