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The Museum and Its Responsibilities
Global environment surrounding museums of modern and contemporary art has been continuously complex and diverse. The CIMAM Annual Conference is one of the most important gathering occasions for museum professionals to exchange ideas and discuss crucial issues to question its roles today.
Following intensive debates from previous conferences, CIMAM Annual Conference 2016 would like to address
The Museum and Its Responsibilities, a fundamental and ontological question for CIMAM, from different perspectives around the world.
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Conference Speakers
Keynote speakers include
Marina Garcés, Philosopher and Professor, University of Zaragoza, Barcelona/Zaragoza, Spain;
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Director, Castello di Rivoli, Museum of Contemporary Art – GAM Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy and
Mari Carmen Ramirez, PhD, The Wortham Curator of Latin American Art & Director, International Center for the Arts of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, United States of America.
Perspective speakers include
Dave Beech, Professor of Art, Valand Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden;
Sylvie Blocher, Visual Artist, France;
Kuan-Hsing Chen, Executive Director of Inter-Asia School (NPO), Professor of the Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies (Chiao Tung U, Taiwan), Co-Director of the Bandung Institute for Africa-America-Asia-Caribben (China Academy of Arts, Hangzhou), Professor of the School of Marxist Studies (Nanjing U), Cultural Studies Dept (Shanghai U), College of Humanities (Yonsei U, Seoul), the Makerere Institute for Social Research (Makerere U, Uganda), Diplomat Institute (U of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia); Editor, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movement and Renjian Thought Review (Taipei);
Michael Dagostino, Director, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown, Australia;
Călin Dan, General Director, National Museum of Contemporary Art – MNAC Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania;
Ticio Escobar, Director, Centro de Artes Visuales/Museo del Barro, Asunción, Paraguay;
Alistair Hudson and
Miguel Amado, Director and Senior Curator, mima Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom;
Marysia Lewandowska, Artist, London, United Kingdom;
Yuliya Sorokina, Curator, Asia Art+ PF, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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Conference program
The Annual Conference is generously supported by the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Barcelona City Council, AC/E (Spain's Public Agency for Cultural Action), AECID (the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation), the Institut Ramón Llull (Promoting Catalan Culture Abroad), the CCCB: Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, Around Art and the University of Barcelona.
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