Anatomising the Museum II – Contemporary Art and Museum Intervention, Part I – Introduction
Channel: HDK-Valand
Date: 2016-11-25

ANATOMISING THE MUSEUM II – Contemporary Art & Museum Intervention, Part I.

In this video: Welcome Introduction by Jason E. Bowman and Lisa Sputnes Mouwitz.

Documented by Ram Krishna Ranjan, on April 25, 2016.
X-library, Valand Academy
Gothenburg, Sweden

With: visual anthropologist Dr. Alyssa Grossman (University of Gothenburg, SE) on approaching ethnographic museums as sites of memory; senior researcher curator Dr. Henrik Holm (National Gallery of Denmark) on artists’ interventions in The Royal Cast Collection in Copenhagen; reader in Art History and Theory Dr. Joanne Morra (University of the Arts, UK) on artists’ interventions in the London and Viennese Freud Museums; senior lecturer in Art, Design and Museology Dr. Claire Robins (UCL Institute of Education, UK) on the pedagogical implications through artistic interventions deployed in museums to reinterpret and critique collections and practices; and representatives of Liberate Tate (via Skype) on creative disobedience tactics between multiple environmental and economic systems and Tate.

Following from a precursory seminar in Fall 2015, Anatomising
the Museum II further probes the effects of interventions and incisions in museum collections and practices by contemporary artists. It responds to the increased practices of creative interpretation, intervention and potential disobediences; and critical curating and quasi-curatorial methods by artists as impulses generated by institutions, curators, artists, educators, ethnographers and academics towards revisioning and repurposing museums and their collections through convergence of art and heritage criticality.

Each year first year students of Valand Academy’s MFA: Fine Art Programme conduct an investigative approach to a specific context or site resulting in public exhibition. In recent years this has included: an archeological dig (2015), a schoolhouse in a depopulated town (2014) and a stately home (2013). These projects have been supported by EU funding, philanthropy, regional and city funding and often by the Heritage Academy and Critical Heritage Studies Department at the University of Gothenburg and its Student Union.

ANATOMISING THE MUSEUM II is co-organised by the MFA: Fine Art Programme, Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg; Medicinhistoriska Museet, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, and with the support of University of Gothenburg’s Heritage Academy and Center for Critical Heritage Studies.