OUT NOW: The Museum as a Workshop
Metropolis M Books presents a new title: The Museum as a Workshop. Edited by Edwin Jacobs, director of Centraal Museum Utrecht, with contributions by Lorenzo Benedetti, Maria Hlavajova, Pontus Kyander, Cliff Lauson, Laurent Le Bon, Steven ten Thije among many others. COMING UP: CONFERENCE – 23 september 2014
At the same time that art museums are experiencing a heyday as tourist attractions, breaking records for visitor numbers, their legitimacy is in full debate. There is considerable discussion about the future of the museum in our rapidly changing society. Museums are today expected to generate their own financial support and appeal to broader audiences, with public financing no longer guaranteed and urban populations undergoing such rapid change.
While some museums are expanding their exhibition programmes, or choose to collaborate with institutions with different expertise than their own, the Centraal Museum is investing in a programme which centres on the relations between the artists and the public. In The Museum as Workshop, the museum is more a place for production than a place for reflection. Artists work on location in the museum, and visitors have the opportunity to experience art in a different, much more active way.
What sense does it make for a museum to strive to achieve a participatory experience of art?
The purpose of this reader is to bring this workshop model into discussion from a broader perspective. What sense does it make for a museum to strive to achieve a participatory experience of art?
Edwin Jacobs of the Centraal Museum invited a large number of international writers and experts to evaluate their experiences of the museum as workshop. Contributions by Lorenzo Benedetti, Regis Cochefort, Ronit Eden, Tone Hansen, Maria Hlavajova, Johan Holten, Pontus Kyander, Cliff Lauson, Laurent Le Bon, Yoeri Meessen, Domeniek Ruyters, Steven ten Thije, Christel Vesters
Publisher: Metropolis M Books
Editor: Edwin Jacobs
Design by Joris Kritis
ISBN – 978-90-818302-3-2
Utrecht -2014 – 62 pages
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The book has been send as a gift to all subscribers of Metropolis M
COMING UP: CONFERENCE – 23 september 2014
