Tuesday 18th February 2014, 8:00pm

Session 121: “Radical Museology, or, What’s Contemporary in Museums of Contemporary Art?” by Claire Bishop

During this Theory Tuesdays session, Nadine Helm presented “Radical Museology, or, What’s Contemporary in Museums of Contemporary Art?” by Claire Bishop.

“In Radical Museology, New York-based art historian Claire Bishop argues that the incommensurability of fiscal and cultural temporality–one fast, the other slower–points to an alternative world of values in which museums (and by extension, culture, education and democracy in general) are not subject to the banalities of a spreadsheet, but enable us to access a rich and diverse history, to question the present and to realize a different future. She discusses creative solutions implemented at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Museo Nacional de Reina Sofía in Madrid and MSUM in Ljubljana. This book is a manifesto for the importance of a politicized representation of the contemporary in today’s art.” -Book Cover

Participants: 25