The workshop “Shared Authority – Stereoculture: The Art of Listening” took place at MuCEM, Marseille in May 2016. Invited speakers and representatives of SWICH partner museums presented case studies and experiments and discussed projects and ideas.
The workshop participants analysed current practices in terms of participative/inclusive work within museums, art centers or other institutions. How can museums share authority and invite external collaborators to raise their voice at the museum, to co-author exhibitions, to share their opinion or to question the concept of expert/audience?
Starting with an introduction by Joëlle Zask, elaborating on the idea of shared authority from a philosophical perspective, the program opened up on the development of situations of co-creation in the field of contemporary art. Subsequently, the partner museums presented different activities linked to the topic. Both the invited guest speakers and the museum participants exchanged experiences of shared authority within the many different activities museums are busy with. This comprised activities such as collecting and acquisition of objects and art works, exhibition making/curating, working with and collecting scientific data, research or mediation.
Download full programme here (French and English)
9:15 am Opening and welcome
9:30 am Forewords and introduction: Yolande Padilla, in charge of International partnerships in research and training MuCEM, Mikael Mohamed, international relations MuCEM, Denis Chevallier, MuCEM
10:00 am Shared authority concepts: Joëlle Zask, professor of Philosophy – University of Aix-Marseille EHESS- CEMS
Shared authority within the field of artistic creation and digital technology
Chair persons of the session, Joëlle Zask and Yolande Padilla
10:30 am Experiments and co-creation: Marie Preston, artist and lecturer – University of Paris VIII, Vincennes Saint-Denis
11:00 am Do it together: shared authority within artistic projects: Raphaëlle Jeune, freelance curator and researcher in aesthetic
11:30 am Discussion on the scope of shared authority in these projects
11:45 am Impact of digital technology on the fragmentation of the concept of author: Jean-Paul Foumentraux, professor – University of Aix-Marseille, Arts and Sciences
12:15 pm The new collectors: Yannick Gonzalès, project manager – Nouvelles donnes productions
12:40 pm Discussion on the scope of shared authority in these projects
01:00 pm Lunch break and open visit of the museum and its exhibitions
Feedback experiences of museum partners
Chair person of the session, Denis Chevallier, Director of Research and Teaching
Department Mucem, Marseille
03:00 pm Learning from the Residents: a Stranger, Looking for Africa in Stuttgart
Sandra Ferracutti, senior curator (Africa) - Linden-Museum, Stuttgart
03:15 pm A Waka for Leiden, a Waka for Europe
Fanny Wonu Veys, curator Oceania, National Museum of World Cultures, the
Netherlands
03:30 pm Perinatal Practices, Experiences and Memories: Cooperation with Roma Women: Tina Palaic, Slovene Ethnographic Museum, Ljubljana
03:45 pm Sharing authority: collection management in practice at MAA: Rachel Hand, Collections Manager - Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge
04:00 pm How African diaspora have influenced the design of the new permanent exhibition of the RMCA: Gonda Geets, project leader renovation and Billy Kalonji - Musée royal de
l’Afrique centrale, Tervuren
Break
04:30 pm Sharing Stories – things that talk and Working with members of descendant communities for the exhibition space “An Austrian Mosaic of Brazil”: Bianca Figl (Weltmuseum Wien) and Cécile Bründlmayer (Weltmuseum Wien/Haas:Consult)
04:50 pm «Al museo con» - Sharing Narratives for a participatory interpretation of
Pigorini Museum’s heritage: Loretta Paderni and Rosa Anna Di Lella – Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography, Rome
05:05 pm Miguel Palma and the students, collaborative arts curating, mediation
Cécile Dumoulin, Head of Public Department – Mucem, Marseille and Miguel Palma, Artist-in-residence – Mucem, Marseille
05:20 pm Discussion on the scope of shared authority in these projects
06:30 pm End of session
Shared authority and exhibition, collection, mediation, Chair person of the session: Yolande Padilla
9:30 am Undisciplined Knowledge: Curating the Disobedient Objects exhibition at the V&A: Catherine Flood, curator Prints, Word and Image department, Victoria and Albert Museum, Londres
10:00 am Artists in the City, pieces of work and an exhibition designed in workshops based
in the Mediterranean area: Jean-Roch Bouiller, curator and head of the contemporary Art, MuCEM
10:30 am Discussion on the scope of shared authority in these projects, other experiments
10:45 am “Territoriography”, a participatory platform of scientific data on the collection: Jean-Yves Blaise, Models and Simulations Laboratory for Architecture and Heritage, CNRS and Edouard de Laubrie, head of the Agricultural and Food Department – MuCEM, Marseille
Break
11:00 am Ecomuseums’ policies: Goals and obstacles: Alexandre Delarge, director of FEMS and Curator - Musée de la Bièvre
11:30 am Sharing the Gypsy memory, an experience of collecting with young gypsies: Céline Salvetat, Head of Public Department – Museon Arlaten, Arles
11:40 am Gypsies, a bohemian life? Olivier Cogne, Director, Resistance and Deportation Museum of Isere; Curator at Musée Dauphinois, Grenoble
12:10 am Museomix, the community-event: Céline Salvetat, Head of Public Department – Museon Arlaten, Arles
01:00 pm Lunch
2 pm “Decolonizing the ethnographic museum: limits and possibilities”: Simone Zeefuik, writer and organizer and Tirza Balk, autonomist critic, Decolonizing the Museum (DTM), Amsterdam
Discussion with the partner-museums
3:30 pm Conclusion of the workshop: Denis Chevallier, Yolande Padilla
