[Commlist] CfP Reinventing Museology: The Role of Conceptual Art

We welcome international and interdisciplinary submissions for the 
conference:


Reinventing museology. The role of conceptual art.


This conference is integrated into the Saison Croisée France-Portugal 
2022 and organized by Fmsh Paris (Fondation Maison Science de l'Homme) 
and Universidade Lusofona, Lisbonne (Ceied and the Department of Museology).


Submission deadline: 15th May 2022


Conference Dates: 6th -7th October 2022

Location: FMSH, Paris (www.fmsh.fr)

Weblink: 
https://www.fmsh.fr/en/our-work/call-papers-reinventing-museology-role-conceptual-art?fbclid=IwAR1-1CWAN2cca2AhmAS--yH0dYdgKv9o0l3HZEbdgrMz4Ut8jHks0bItaIU 



Keynote Speakers:

Mario Moutinho, dean of Universidade Lusofona and Director of the 
Museology Department of Universidade Lusofona.

Sara Alonso Gómez, art historian, curator and associate 
researcher at Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires de l’UFR Lettres, 
Arts, Cinéma (CERILAC) from the University of Paris.


Conference Abstract:

The scope of this conference is to reflect from an interdisciplinary 
perspective on the role that contemporary art – and especially 
conceptual art – had for the progressive critical reform and 
democratization of museology since the beginning of the 20th century. We 
are looking for contributions that discuss historic and recent 
case-studies, theories and solutions that emerged in the context of a 
new, social museology.


The starting point is the observation that the museologic dispositive, 
even if contested in the context of new museologic practices, is 
perpetuated in contemporary arts in altered, augmented, virtual, 
critical and analytical ways. We launch the question ofwhy and how do 
contemporary artists work with the museologic dispositive as a way to 
reconsiderculture-specific heritage, personal heritage, global heritage 
and the political questions they imply.


The themes addressed in the past decade by critical museology (by 
authors such as Ivan Karp, Christine Mullem Kreamer and Steven Levine, 
Sharon Macdonald, Janice Baker among many others) span between the 
critique of the discipline itself through methodological questionings of 
classification, display and value attribution, to uncovering of marginal 
histories excluded from historic narratives and their reintegration into 
the cultural and social space. The role of artistic practices for 
stimulating participative and collaborative museologic practices has 
been often acknowledged.


Nonetheless, it seems that a theory of how conceptual art has re-thought 
the identity of the 'object' (and implicitly the 'heritage object'), and 
the question of 'display' are missing from the field. How did conceptual 
art contribute in time to the re-thinking of the museum as practice 
(social and cultural)? These two factors had important implications in 
terms of promoting de-colonial thinking, allowing multiple narratives, 
including secondary objects and marginalised histories into the 
museologic narrative and expanding the identity of the heritage object 
with an ephemeral dimension.


The call is open to contributions from anthropology, social sciences, 
education science, design, performance studies, aesthetics, and 
connected fields covering the period from the modernism to the neo 
avant-gardes and until today's digital conceptualism. We would like to 
follow how do these approaches reflect back into the discipline of 
museology, determining a shift towards a de-colonial and social museology.


This conference intends as well to go deeper into the principles of 
sociomuseology, which includes the immediate social reality into the 
museologic practice. We would like to propose a discussion around this 
term – launched in 2007 at Universidade Lusofona at the International 
MINOM meeting, while introducing the question of art into this field.


A publication will be issued in 2022-2023 which includes the conference 
proceedings, related articles by the conference participants and 
artistic portfolios.


The Call is Open for the Formats:


Lecture (Theoretical contributions, case-studies, documentation of 
artistic practices and works etc.)


Film/Video and Photography Submission (Material to be Projected and 
Presented During the Conference Days).


Submission documents: CV (max. 3 pg.), Abstract (max. 400 words), 
optional visual material (1-2 images, jpg format)

Please submit your material at: (reinventingmuseology /at/ msh-paris.fr)


No payment for participation requested.

Cms scholars are especially welcome



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