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SUMMARY:The Artist and the Museum: a Clash of Disciplinary Cultures?  - Al
 ana Jelinek (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)
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DTEND:20130605T130000Z
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CONTACT:Ruth Rushworth
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Alana Jelinek (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology) pre
 sents at the CRASSH Postdoctoral Research Seminar\n\nAbstract\n\nArtists h
 ave been working in various non-art museums in important and ground-breaki
 ng ways since 1992 at least\, when Fred Wilson installed 'Mining the Museu
 m' at the Maryland Historical Society Museum\, Baltimore. For the past dec
 ade it has been de rigueur in Britain for museums to host contemporary art
 \, from the Natural History Museum to the British Museum as well as a wide
  range of smaller institutions. This in order 1) to enliven their collecti
 ons\, 2) as institutional critique\, 3) as part of an outreach programme a
 nd 4) as an exercise in branding. From the point of view of the contempora
 ry artist\, this proliferation looks like a good thing - more art and more
  opportunities for art - and various exultant conferences attest this idea
  (for example\, Arts Council England & British Museum conference\, 'Engagi
 ng the Artist's Voice: Museums\, galleries and artists working in collabor
 ation' 2012). This is also a good thing from the point of view of the gove
 rnment: today\, to a considerable extent\, museums' public funding comes t
 hrough the Arts Council. This talk will address some of the many assumptio
 ns built into the new relationship between contemporary art and the museum
  including the unacknowledged disciplinary mores and orthodoxies in operat
 ion at the heart of this trend.\n\nRegistration: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.
 uk/events/2343/
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 
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