"Sanhedrin" - Conference at the Israeli
Center for Digital Art, Holon
Wednesday and Thursday, June
18-19, 2008 14:00 – 20:00
The "Sanhedrin" conference
wishes to question the connection between the museum and the nation state,
through the examination of divergent museum models, at a time when the status
of the nation state is being undermined by influences of neo- liberal
economics. We wish to ask: how do museums function as distributors of political
ideology in this paradigm shift between national and neo- liberal economies?
How do museums construct a representation of the past while the present stands
in ideological contradiction to it (especially in former communists countries)?
In what manner can museums be critical of the state or the politics of corporate
funding, and is this mode of institutional critique from within the institution
is relevant today? This questions was the starting point and framework for this
conference.
Participants include:
Mordechi Omer, the general director and curator of the
Tel- Aviv Museum, a senior professor at the Tel- Aviv University, and the
initiator and director of the University Gallery. Charles Esche, the
director of the Van AbbeMuseum in Eindhoven and co- editor of
"Afterall" books and journals. Ana Jenevski, curator at the
MOMA Museum, Warsaw. Ariella Azoulay, lecturer of contemporary
philosophy and visual culture at the Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies Program
at Bar Ilan University, and a curator and documentary filmmaker. Galia Bar
Or, the director and curator of the Museum of Art , Ein Harod. Zdenka
Badovinac, the director of the Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana. Rona
Sela, a curator and researcher of local photography. Nina Montmann,
the head of the History and Theory Departnent at the Royal Academy for Art , Stockholm
and independet curator and critic. Dalia Levin, the director and curator
of the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art.
The Israeli Center for
Digital Art, 16 Yirmiyahu St. Holon
Free entrance
It is strongly
recommended that you sign up in advance by email or telephone: info@digitalartlab.org.il | 03- 5568792