April 16 – 18, 1998
with Felix Angel, Doug Ashford, Herbert Blau, Mark Bradley, Jamie Owen Daniel, Rebecca J. DeRoo, Gail Dubrow, Claire F. Fox, Jane Gallop, Maria Gough, The Guerrilla Girls, Jacqueline Hayden, Carla I. Corbin, Lawrence Hoey, Michelle S. Johnson, Catherine Lord, Roxana Marcoci, Loren Mayor, Pedro Meyer, Arvind Rajagopal, Jock Reynolds, Suzanne Hellmuth, Mark B. Sandberg, Marcia Tucker, Paul Vanouse, Steffi Domike, Michael Mateas, Deborah Willis, James E. Young. Organized by Leslie Bellavance and Marina Pérez de Mendiola
The Center held the Conference Public Showing in Curtin Hall 175 on April 16 – 18, 1998. The conference explored the physical sites and structures of exhibition and the conditions of display of art, artifacts, and cultures, as well as the status of the objects of exhibition and collections. The conference was organized by Leslie Bellavance (a fellow at the Center during the year) and Marina Pérez de Mendiola (UWM).
April 16, 1998
Welcome and Introduction
Kate Davy
Kathleen Woodward
Exhibition and Revisionist Stagings
Recasting the Institution
Marcia Tucker
“The Contemporary Art Museum as a Site of Innovation and Resistance”
Félix Angel
“Exhibiting in Non-Traditional Cultural Institutions”
Maria Gough
“LabArchive of Revolution: Refunctioning the Museum at the End of (Art) History”
Chair: Peter Doroshenko
Doug Ashford
“Notes for a Public Artist”
Chair: Scott Zuckowski
Herbert Blau
“‘Set Me Where You Stand’: Revising the Abyss”
Chair: David Crane
Pedro Meyer
“Where does the art reside in, within the Internet?”
Introduction: Richard Zauft
April 17, 1998
Identity Fields
Zoning Communities: Renewing History
Loren Mayor
“Staging Suburbia: Modeling Suburban Norms on Broadway and at Disneyland in the 1950s”
Michelle Johnson
“Boundaries of the Past: Space, Race, and the Creation of Community”
Chair: Lynne Joyrich
Objective Look
Deborah Willis
“Transforming the Image: The Black Female Body in Photography”
Jane Gallop
“Exposing the Family: Observations of a Photographed Mother”
Chair: Marina Pérez de Mendiola
Exhibiting Memory
Memorializing Culture
James E. Young
“The Uncanny Arts of Memorial Architecture: Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin”
Claire F. Fox
“Lo Classico de Mixico Moderno: Gender and Monumentality in Post Revolutionary Mexico”
Chair:Gary Weissman
Memorializing Politics
Lawrence Hoey
“Sites of Catastrophic Cultural Memory: Reading the Physical Exhibits of the Two World Wars in France and Britain”
Mark Bradley
“Contest of Memory: War and Remembrance in Contemporary Vietnam”
Roxana Marcoci
“Brancusi in Camouflage”
Chair: Jeffrey Hayes
The Guerrilla Girls
Introduction: Chancellor John H. Schroeder
UWM Union Wisconsin Room
April 18, 1998
Visual Display of Public Interchange
Aestheticization of Politics: Ideologies for Sale
Arvind Rajagopal
“Emerging Markets as Image, Space, Metaphor: Visual Stagings of Consumer Goods in Rural and Urban India”
Jamie Owen Daniel
“Marketing Che: Public Iconography, Political Memory and the Return of Tourism to Contemporary Cuba”
Chair: Paul Brodwin
Terminal Time: A Recombinant Historical Documentary
Paul Vanouse, Steffi Domike, and Michael Mateas
Chair: Lane Hall
Exhibiting Museums
Rebecca J. DeRoo
“Exhibiting the Ordinary: Memory Images in French Museums after 1968”
Jock Reynolds and Suzanne Hellmuth
“Trees/Gardens/Shelters/Art”
Catherine Lord
“The Anthropologist’s Shadow: Lesbian as Artifact in the Land of Enchantment”
Chair: Leslie Bellavance
Artifacts in the Expanded Field
Gail Dubrow
“Contested Memories: Re-Presenting Asian American and Women’s History at Historic Landmarks”
Jacqueline Hayden and Carla I. Corbin
“The Fairground: A Public Landscape of Event and Representation”
Mark B. Sandberg
“Displaying the Cradle of Culture”
Chair: Dan S. Wang
Marina Pérez de Mendiola (UWM)