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Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (HOK) aims to re-position the
role an art institution can take in the educational field today, prompting
three students and a professor from the KHiO, The Academy of Fine Art Oslo,
as well as a variety of cultural producers and scholars, to contribute to
the dialogue.
MoDERNISM MACHINE takes on multiple
senses of occupying the museum where pedagogy becomes generative. It
reflects and negotiates the collection of practices that constitute the
museum and the academy's current relation to it. In the midst of their
research process, the artists found themselves entering a site of
production, commenting on art by making art, rather than solely holding a
position of analytical distance. Working with the Museum as a study object
opens up the center's history while it simultaneously accumulates a future
archive.
MoDERNISM MACHINE will run as an ongoing
discursive and educational platform.
A full-day symposium on
September 30, Culture of Display, will host lectures,
considering how exhibition practices can have a critical educational and
mediating function.
Symposium speakers: Theodor Barth
(Associate Professor KHiO, Oslo), Celine Condorelli (Professor at NABA,
Milan), Clémentine Deliss (Director, Museum der Weltkulturen,
Frankfurt), Dag Erik Elgin (artist), Tone Hansen (Director, HOK), Milena
Hoegsberg (Acting Chief Curator, HOK), Catherine Ince (Curator, Barbican
Art Gallery, London), Maria Lind (Director, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm),
Natalie O'Donell (PhD candidate in Architecture), and Rane Willerslev
(Director, Museum of Cultural History, Oslo).
A
comprehensive publication will follow, titled MoDERNISM MACHINE
(Design: Your Friends, Oslo), documenting the exhibition and the
events taking place within it, to be launched at the Culture of
Display Symposium.
From August 31–October 18, 2012,
Extended Classroom will convert an exhibition area into an
art educational space, with daytime talks from Dag Erik Elgin's academy
lecture program made open to the public at HOK. Sunday Conversations
Series will cover a variety of topics on art and architecture with
critical thinkers and artists in a more informal setting, with HOK serving
as subtext.
Culture of Display Symposium
September 30, 10–5pm
Free; registration
mandatory.
Send an e-mail to BeriAndr@khio.no before September
15.
Sunday Conversations Series and Extended
Classroom
For a full calendar, please click here.
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