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Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
Are we not only amusing but also travelling ourselves to death? Has the modern tourist industry abolished travel as we know it and transformed our cities and landscapes into open air-museums that all look the same, with only minor differences? Did the post-modern leisure and tourist industry capture the good old state-sponsored institution of the museum turning it into a blockbuster world with fancy curated exhibitions we go to as a secular surregate for the holy pilgrimage? What is behind the ongoing process of a musealization of our world that seems to neglects the past? Are these changes in the world of travel and museums seismographs for our post-modern experience?
Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 6 p.m.
Ilija Trojanow (writer)
Liberating Travel from the Confines of the Museum
Has the experience of alienation, of the foreign, turned into a curated show of pictures and objects reducing the "unknown" to stock cubes for a gently flavored global soup? In contrast to the limited experiences of the modern tourist industry, Ilija Trojanow will place his emphasis on the fleeting trace of the "unknown", its conditions and its resistance to the musealising reflexes, mechanisms and institutions of contemporary life.
Venue: Social Science Research Center Berlin, Room 300
Friday, June 28, 2013, 7.30 p.m.
Martin Roth (Director of the V&A Museum, London)
Reinventing the Museum
Since the emergence of the museum in the early 19th century, a number of historical developments - including the breakdown of colonial empires, the end of the Cold War, increasing globalisation and technological innovations - have shifted the context of public exhibition spaces. The popularity of the museum is by no means dwindling. On the contrary, the number of museums and visitors globally has continued to increase. This urges us to question: what are the museums’ and related cultural institutions’ new functions? What is the new museum experience?
Venue: Jewish Museum Berlin, Altbau, Großer Saal, 2. floor.
Lectures will be followed by discussion and a
reception.
All lectures are held in English.
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Information on participating / attending:
Date:
06/26/2013 18:00 - 06/28/2013 20:00
Registration deadline:
06/25/2013
Event venue:
Reichpietschufer 50, Raum A 300
10785 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
Journalists, all interested persons
Email address:
Relevance:
transregional, national
Subject areas:
Construction / architecture, Cultural sciences
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
06/06/2013
Sender/author:
Dr. Paul Stoop
Department:
Informations- und Kommunikationsreferat
Event is free:
no
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event43902
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