Program:

Saturday, 9 May

10:00
Welcome by Majda Širca, the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia

10:15 - 10:45
Opening speech by Zdenka Badovinac

10:45 - 11:45
Keynote speech by Rastko Močnik

Coffee break

Panel discussions:

12:00 - 13:00
Include or change?
Two courses of action seem possible at the moment: one leads to the art of the Other being merely subsumed into the existing art history system with individual specimens, and the other presumes the recognition of the need for a different approach to historicizing which would lead to a global transformation of the workings of the art system and the conception of museum collections.
Speakers: Jesús Carrillo, Alfred Pacquement, Sheena Wagstaff
Moderator: Adela Železnik

13:00 - 13:30
Discussion

13:30 - 14:30
Break

14:30 - 16:30
What is happening to the principal museum institutions in the region of former Yugoslavia?
A great number of museums in formerly socialist countries are being renovated or are about to be constructed. This raises numerous questions regarding collection policies and the context of museums between the local and the global, or perhaps better stated, in the interlocal situation.
Speakers: Zoran Erić, Suzana Milevska, Bojana Piškur, Amila Ramović
Moderator: Alenka Gregorič

Speakers: Breda Kolar Sluga, Tihomir Milovac, Miško Šuvaković
Moderator: Beti Žerovc

16:30 - 17:00
Discussion

17:00 - 18:00
How far removed have museums become from their original significance?
Can museums formulate some common strategies for preserving the museum's original significance as a place of study and knowledge production and dissemination in these times of a neo-liberal economy and the global economic crisis?
Speakers: Sabine Breitwieser, Charles Esche, Nina Möntmann
Moderator: Igor Španjol

18:00 - 18:30
Discussion


Sunday, 10 May

10:00 - 11:00
What legacy do museums in the countries of formerly repressive political regimes deal with and what future do they face?
Museums in countries that used to be relatively isolated seem especially interested in including their local art in the broader international context. How can this international context - always specific, yet also global and, at the same time, subsumed in a given international region, such as Eastern Europe or South America - be problematized?
Speakers: Lisette Lagnado, Ana Janevski (in place of Joanna Mytkowska), Barbara Steiner
Moderator: Petja Grafenauer

11:00 - 11:30
Discussion

11:30 - 13:00
How can artists help make the histories presented by museums of modern and contemporary art more comprehensive?
There are many "artists-curators" who establish in their works a critical distance to the canonized history.
Speakers: Irwin, Silvia Kolbowski, Tadej Pogačar, Apolonija Šušteršič, Gediminas Urbonas
Moderator: Barbara Borčić

13:00 - 13:30
Discussion

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