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Museum pieces and piece goods

A comparison of museum and commodity aesthetics

06.11. - 07.11.2014

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Date

06.11. - 07.11.2014

Location

Museumsakademie Joanneum, Berlin

Meeting point

Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge, Berlin (DE)

Costs

180 €, reduced fee 150 € (The reduced fee is available to students, trainees, unemployed people, and employees of this year’s cooperation partners.)

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+43-664/8017-9537
museumsakademie@museum-joanneum.at

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Event

At the end of the 19th century, the department store and the museum were, in many respects, comparable institutions and mutually influenced one another. Museums played a key role in forming an aesthetic relationship to things and thus in developing a commodity culture. In both places, it was about exhibiting, extolling and conveying things using stories and atmospheres; here, as there, about comparing and appraising, appropriating and convincing, and about a perceived sense of being in the know and up-to-date. After reviewing their history, we would like to discuss the relationship today between these two key institutions of modernity on the basis of specific examples of contemporary museums and department stores. Are traditional characterisations of museum objects and commercially traded things still valid? What trends do the presentation of objects and goods follow? How traditional or innovative are their architectures, having always combined both functional as well as artistic elements? The ways of speaking and acting in early museums as well as department stores were largely standardized: what is the social practice of culture and commodity consumption like today?


In cooperation with
Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge

Further information

CONFERENCE

With
Renate Flagmeier Senior Curator Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge, Berlin (DE)
Hans Peter Hahn Professor of Ethnology, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (DE)
Hild and K Architects, Munich (DE)
Christine Hill Artist, New York and Berlin (USA/DE)
Gudrun König Professor at the Chair of Cultural Anthropology of Textiles, Dortmund University of Technology (DE)
Andreas Murkudis Entrepreneur and owner of three concept stores in the Bikini-Haus Berlin (DE)
Stephanie Senge Artist and consumer activist, Berlin (DE)


Organisers of the event 
Renate Flagmeier Senior Curator Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge, Berlin (DE)
Bettina Habsburg-Lothringen Director Museumsakademie Joanneum, Graz (AT)

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