Antony Gormley
A field for the Art Gallery of New South Wales 1989
1100 unfired clay figures 11 x 10 metres (approx overall)
Mervyn Horton Bequest Fund 1993
© Antony Gormley
| | Friday 18 March 2005 • Saturday 19 March 2005
Venue: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
At a time when the boundaries between the museum and the real
world appear to be lessening, the Art Gallery of New South Wales is hosting an
international symposium that will investigate the role of the art museum today.
Given the shift from an industrial/modernist age to a postmodern society, museum
professionals, artists and patrons are asking the question, 'How do we make museums
matter?'
Marc Pachter, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, The Smithsonian
Institution, Washington DC, will deal directly
with this issue. Other keynote speakers are Edmund Capon, Director Art Gallery of
New South Wales, Ross Gibson, Professor of New Media and Digital Culture, UTS, and
Bob Ellis, well known writer and social commentator. Over two stimulating days these
influential speakers will open up four important discussions relevant to art museums
in the twenty-first century:
• Spaces for containing art - including panellist
Richard Johnson, architect of the new Asian galleries, Art Gallery of NSW.
• Do audience expectations influence exhibition practice? - dedicated to the viewer's space.
• Language and the art museum, which ponders the mediating role that language
plays and asks the question, 'Does it divide or unite audience and object?'
• Art for laughs:
Should humour be banned in the art museum? - chaired by Jonathan Biggins, host of
ABC-TV's Critical Mass arts program.
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Registration Fees
$250 Full
$195 AGS/Museums Australia members & concession
$100 Full-time students
Enquiries
Tel. (02) 9225 1740 (international +61 2 9225 1740)
Fax. (02) 9221 5129 (international +61 2 9221 5129)
Email pp@ag.nsw.gov.au
Bookings >
| | This two-day symposium, which brings together experts, researchers and panel facilitators, will provide you with an up-to-date picture of your place in the evolving role of art museums.
This is the second in the series of symposia. The first Art Museums: Sites of Communication was collaboratively presented by the National Gallery of Australia and the National Portrait Gallery, in March 2003. |
