Aðgerðarstefna safna: Ferðabannið í New York og framtíðin
Í fyrirlestrinum mun dr. Melissa Forstrom, sem rannsakað hefur meðal annars framtíð listasafna, fjalla um hvernig ferðabann í New York hafði áhrif á starfsemi The Met og MoMA.
Fyrirlesturinn fer fram 11. október kl. 12 í Lögberg, stofu 101.
Viðburðurinn er á vegum námsbrautar í Safnafræði við Háskóla Íslands og Þjóðminjasafns Íslands.
Possible Futures of Museum Activism: Rapid Response Interpreting and the Travel Ban in New York City:Although museums are sites of cultural, social, and political exchanges, rarely (if ever) do the people employed in these cultural institutions respond quickly to contemporary socio-politics in exhibition spaces. In early 2017, the executive order (13769) for the first travel ban changed that in New York City. Straddling activism and protest, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), two of the largest and most well-respected art museums in New York City (and the world), created interpretation in gallery spaces to respond to this injustice. These socially innovative responses circumvented traditional organizational decision structures and addressed immediate socio-environmental issues. This talk examines the role of interpretation in The Met’s curator-led tours and MoMA’s rehang/interpretation of the fifth-floor permanent exhibition galleries to include artworks by artists from the banned countries. Rooted in interpretation theory, museology, museum activism and exhibition history, I argue that the future relevance of art museum exhibition could be in interpretation, which is critical in the accessibility of an exhibition, responsible for the meanings audiences create, and is essential in linking the familiar with the unfamiliar.
Melissa Forstrom, PhD is an assistant professor at Purchase College- State University of New York, where she teaches museum studies and arts management courses. Recently, she coedited and contributed to Museum Innovation(Routledge, 2021) and has authored a handful of academic chapters and articles, including “Museum Maps and the Edge” (Media Fields, 2019). Melissa has been an invited lecturer at the University of Leicester and University of Oslo, amongst many others. Having presented her research at conferences in the USA, UK, Germany, Singapore, and Russia, she has also been invited to speak at numerous art institutions. Her doctoral dissertation (University of Westminster, 2017) investigates the reinstallation and interpretation of Islamic art exhibitions in Europe and the United States.