Activism and museums

Collaborations and processes of productive tension

23.06. - 24.06.2022

Mark Dion: ‘Collectors Collected. The Material Culture of Field Work’, 2018, as part of ‘Kunst/Natur: Artistic Interventions at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin’ // Courtesy of the artist and Museum für Naturkunde Berlin © Hwa Ja Götz

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Date

23.06. - 24.06.2022

Location

Museumsakademie Joanneum

Meeting point

Berlin (DE)

Costs

190 €, reduced fee 140 € (The reduced fee is available to students, trainees, unemployed people, and employees of this year’s cooperation partners.)

External registration

Please register via e-mail.

Contact us

+43-664/8017-9537

museumsakademie@museum-joanneum.at

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About the
Event

New forms of collaboration increasingly go hand in hand with the aspiration of many museums to be a place of discussion on contemporary issues and to involve new groups of stakeholders. On an ever more frequent basis, major museums with hegemonic histories of establishment and existence are daring to address current, politically explosive issues and engage in discussion with activists. And these seem to find museums to be a useful platform for their concerns. This seldom occurs, however, entirely without friction, as this often entails very contrasting organisational structures, patterns of action, and forms of knowledge coming together. Yet what are the parameters of this relationship of productive tension? What are the motives that lead participants to enter into a cooperation of this nature, and what are the objectives? What role does the differently situated knowledge of the stakeholders play? By looking at current projects in three fields of virulent activism—postcolonialism, digitalisation, and climate policy—we will explore the success factors and impacts of alliances between activists and museums. Topics of discussion will include opportunities and synergies, risks, hidden and open conflicts, as well as potential collaborative solutions.

With
Michael Annoff Cultural anthropologist*, curator* and artist*, Berlin (DE)
Robin Coenen Information designer, visual intelligence, Berlin (DE)
Agathe Conradi Museum Director, Treptow-Köpenick Museums, Berlin (DE)
Elisabeth Krämer Project Coordinator and Curator, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE)
Uwe Moldrzyk Head of Exhibition Development, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (DE)
Danielle Rosales Graphic designer and sociologist, visual intelligence, Berlin (DE)
Anna Yeboah Overall Coordinator Dekoloniale, Berlin (DE)

Organisers of the workshop
Annette Löseke Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries, University of Sheffield (UK)
Karoline Boehm Management Team, Museumsakademie Joanneum, Graz (AT)

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