The Migrating Museum
Inquiries into contemporary colonialisms, feminisms and education

with Ricardo Basbaum, Gangart (Heinrich Pichler and Simonetta Ferfoglia), Emma Hedditch and FO/GO Lab (Angelika Bartl, Irene Lucas, Elisabeth Penker and Ruby Sircar)

Date: Conference 09-10 March 2007

Venue: Jan van Eyck Academie
Academieplein 1
6211 KM Maastricht
The Netherlands

Entrance: Free

Organisation: FO/GO Lab

Programme:
Friday, 9 March
18:00h Opening
18:30 “Lexicality, mappings and round tables” (Irene Lucas and Ruby Sircar)
19:00 “The translation of space, crafts and techniques (Gangart: Heinrich Pichler and Simonetta Ferfoglia)

Saturday, 10 March
11:00 Introduction
11:30 “Precarious colonial exchanges” (Irene Lucas and Ruby Sircar)
12:00 “Would you like to participate in an artistic experience?” (Ricardo Basbaum)
13:00 Break
13:45 “Documentary feminist visions” (Angelika Bartl)
14:15 “The morning after” (Emma Hedditch)
15:15 Break
15:30 “How do we get to a state of comparative contemporary museums? (Elisabeth Penker)
16:00 “Forced assimilation in contemporary art” (Focus Group: Elisabeth Penker, Simonetta Ferfoglia and t.b.a.)
17:00 Open discussion
18:00 Drinks

Concept Abstract:
Introducing the concept of the ‘migrating museum’ to represent institutional change the conference intends to reknit the term migration and the content expectations it generates. Cultural practices or migration are both challenging and ambivalent. Western policies create multi-cultural settings that are utopian and support inherent colonial dynamics. The aim is then to reconsider the term migration in the light of race, class and gender constructions. This would result in critical interventions into museum and media structures and inquiries into the role of cultural producers, viewers and subjects.

Conference Setting:
The basic structure of the setting build up for the conference is based on the deconstructed NBP object of the project “Would you like to participate in an artistic experience?”. The object spins as a bigger then life drawing the room and breaks up the architecture of the academy space. All elements which are placed as seating elements are mobile and thus allow the talk formats to vary and presented ideas to wander.