Eighth Annual Anne d’Harnoncourt Symposium: Museum as Score

Eighth Annual Anne d’Harnoncourt Symposium: MUSEUM AS SCORE

What if a museum collection was treated like a musical or choreographic score—existing both as a historical document and as the material for an interpretive performance that could be played at any moment? Join us for this thought experiment at the eighth annual Anne d’Harnoncourt Symposium: Museum as Score. We’ll discuss how the perception of the museum as a static archive is upended in today’s cultural context in which durational, event-based, and experimental artworks, exhibitions, projects, and programs are on the rise. Beginning with the assessment of the historical role of the museum as a product of the Enlightenment, this symposium will consider the museum not as a timeless repository of objects, but as an open invitation to be activated through a variety of time-based activities and experiences. The symposium will place emphasis on the discussion of recent exhibitions and works by contemporary artists that have a durational or ephemeral nature as well as the intersection between museological institutions and contemporary dance.

Keynote Conversation
Sunday, September 11, 2016 - 2:00 p.m.
Location: Rainey Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania
Featuring choreographers Boris Charmatz and William Forsythe, moderated by Carlos Basualdo, The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art

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