EVENTS
In the Name of the Public
29/10/2009 – 30/10/2009
In the Name of the Public
29th and 30th October 2009 // 17:00 to 22:00
It has become commonplace for art institutions to conceive of themselves as privileged platforms from which to launch debates, whose potential application would far exceed the museum walls. This is happening at a time when these institutions are increasingly run in order to compete within a booming cultural-tourist industry while existing as a kind of epiphenomenon to a spectacularly inflated market in art objects. Nevertheless, a multitude of voices have appeared that seem to ask for a different emphasis. Hence the proliferation of exhibitions, artistic practices and attempts at critical diagnosis that appeal to such things as “sociability”, “participation” or “relationality”. In Spain, educational departments aimed at adults in museums and art centres –to which CENDEAC is closely related– have been reclassified (adopting the English term), as public programmes. We could think that the ability to produce publics has become an important criterion for the evaluation not just of art institutions but also of art practices.
Historically, modern art has been conceived as such through the speculative constitution of a potentially universal, but fundamentally abstract “public” to whom it is addressed. It could also be argued that the possibility of thinking such an abstraction (namely a public capable of judgment and self-organisation universally willing to submit to a common law) would seem to be a necessary condition for legitimating the democratic state. The idealised version of the relationship between these two statements would take art to be “appealing” to a public to which the state “responds”. In practice, other interests also participate in this relationship, further problematising any easy claim on the institutional space of art as intrinsically progressive.
Gathering together art practitioners, administrators and docents, we hope to be able to point at ways in which art institutions might still be productively reclaimed for a public sphere in more than a merely affirmative way.
This meeting is part of the working group “El / Lo Público”, more info here
Proposed schedule for the meeting “En el nombre del público”.
29 y 30 de octubre // 17:00 - 22:00 (inc. Q&As)
29th October de Octubre
17:00 — Yaiza Hernández (intro)
17:30 — Dave Beech
18:15 —break
18:30 — Tone Hansen
19:15 — Jorge Luis Marzo
20:00 —Q & A
30 de Octubre
17:00 — Simon Sheikh
17:45 — T. J. Demos
18:30 —break
18:45 — Nuria Enguita
19:30 —Q & A
In the Name of the Public. Speaker's bios (119KB)
Information and enrolment
Language of the course: Spanish and English with simultaneous translation into Spanish
CENDEAC is accessible for wheelchair users and people with diminished mobility. Whenever possible, we will strive to provide on request a transcript of papers for users with impaired hearing.
Auditorium Capacity: 140 people
Free entry to those who do not wish to receive an attendance certificate (paying users will be granted preferential entry if the auditorium reaches its full capacity).
In order to enrol and obtain a certificate of attendance, you need to:
- Attend all sessions of the course
- Fill in the enrolment form
- Pay the appropriate fee
Fee: 30 € professionals, 15€ students, unemployed and OAPs (proof of status will be required). Free for holders of a Friends of CENDEAC card.
In order to enrol online it is necessary to fill in the enrolment form and make a payment for the appropriate fee WITHIN TWO WEEKS OF ENROLMENT to CAJAMURCIA bank, Account Number 2043 0090 34 2000550928, specifying as a concept the name of the seminar and SENDING ONE COPY OF THE PAYMENT RECEIPT to CENDEAC (you can do this by email or fax in order to save time and avoid de-enrolment, however, if you are de-enrolled you will be enrolled again on receipt of your payment slip). Alternatively, you can enrol and pay your fee at the CENDEAC office (Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 4p.m. to 8 p.m.).
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