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April 16 – 18, 1998<\/p>\n

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 P\u00e9rez de Mendiola<\/em><\/p>\n

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 P\u00e9rez de Mendiola (UWM).<\/p>\n

\"photo<\/a>
Doug Ashford (School of Art at Cooper Union)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

April 16, 1998<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome and Introduction<\/em>
\nKate Davy<\/strong>
\nKathleen Woodward<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"photo<\/a>
Rebecca J. DeRoo (Chicago) and Deborah Willis (Smithsonian Institute)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Exhibition and Revisionist Stagings<\/em><\/p>\n

Recasting the Institution<\/p>\n

Marcia Tucker<\/strong>
\n“The Contemporary Art Museum as a Site of Innovation and Resistance”
\nF\u00e9lix Angel<\/strong>
\n“Exhibiting in Non-Traditional Cultural Institutions”
\nMaria Gough<\/strong>
\n“LabArchive of Revolution: Refunctioning the Museum at the End of (Art) History”
\nChair: Peter Doroshenko<\/p>\n

\"photo<\/a>
F\u00e9lix Angel (Curator, Cultural Center of the Inter-American Development Bank)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\n
\"\"<\/a>
Pedro Meyer Event Flyer<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nDoug Ashford<\/strong>
\n“Notes for a Public Artist”
\nChair: Scott Zuckowski<\/p>\n

Herbert Blau<\/strong>
\n“‘Set Me Where You Stand’: Revising the Abyss”
\nChair: David Crane<\/p>\n

Pedro Meyer<\/strong>
\n“Where does the art reside in, within the Internet?”
\nIntroduction: Richard Zauft<\/p>\n

\"photo<\/a>
(l-r) Marcia Tucker (Founder and Director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City), and Maria Gough (Michigan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

April 17, 1998<\/strong><\/p>\n

Identity Fields<\/em><\/p>\n

Zoning Communities: Renewing History<\/p>\n

Loren Mayor<\/strong>
\n“Staging Suburbia: Modeling Suburban Norms on Broadway and at Disneyland in the 1950s”
\nMichelle Johnson<\/strong>
\n“Boundaries of the Past: Space, Race, and the Creation of Community”
\nChair: Lynne Joyrich<\/p>\n

Objective Look<\/p>\n

Deborah Willis<\/strong>
\n“Transforming the Image: The Black Female Body in Photography”
\nJane Gallop<\/strong>
\n“Exposing the Family: Observations of a Photographed Mother”
\nChair: Marina P\u00e9rez de Mendiola<\/p>\n

\"photo<\/a>
Jane Gallop (UWM)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Exhibiting Memory<\/em><\/p>\n

Memorializing Culture<\/p>\n

James E. Young<\/strong>
\n“The Uncanny Arts of Memorial Architecture: Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin”
\nClaire F. Fox<\/strong>
\n“Lo Classico de Mixico Moderno: Gender and Monumentality in Post Revolutionary Mexico”
\nChair:Gary Weissman<\/p>\n

\"photo<\/a>
Marcus Bullock (UWM) and Pedro Meyer (Mexico)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Memorializing Politics<\/p>\n

Lawrence Hoey<\/strong>
\n“Sites of Catastrophic Cultural Memory: Reading the Physical Exhibits of the Two World Wars in France and Britain”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Guerrilla Girls Event Flyer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mark Bradley<\/strong>
\n“Contest of Memory: War and Remembrance in Contemporary Vietnam”
\nRoxana Marcoci<\/strong>
\n“Brancusi in Camouflage”
\nChair: Jeffrey Hayes<\/p>\n

The Guerrilla Girls<\/strong>
\nIntroduction: Chancellor John H. Schroeder
\nUWM Union Wisconsin Room<\/p>\n

\"Deborah<\/a>
Deborah Willis (Exhibitions Curator and Museum Specialist at the Smithsonian’s National African American Museum Project)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

April 18, 1998<\/strong><\/p>\n

Visual Display of Public Interchange<\/em><\/p>\n

Aestheticization of Politics: Ideologies for Sale<\/p>\n

Arvind Rajagopal<\/strong>
\n“Emerging Markets as Image, Space, Metaphor: Visual Stagings of Consumer Goods in Rural and Urban India”
\nJamie Owen Daniel<\/strong>
\n“Marketing Che: Public Iconography, Political Memory and the Return of Tourism to Contemporary Cuba”
\nChair: Paul Brodwin<\/p>\n

Terminal Time: A Recombinant Historical Documentary<\/p>\n

Paul Vanouse, Steffi Domike, and Michael Mateas<\/strong>
\nChair: Lane Hall<\/p>\n

Exhibiting Museums<\/p>\n

Rebecca J. DeRoo<\/strong>
\n“Exhibiting the Ordinary: Memory Images in French Museums after 1968”
\nJock Reynolds and Suzanne Hellmuth<\/strong>
\n“Trees\/Gardens\/Shelters\/Art”
\nCatherine Lord<\/strong>
\n“The Anthropologist’s Shadow: Lesbian as Artifact in the Land of Enchantment”
\nChair: Leslie Bellavance<\/p>\n

Artifacts in the Expanded Field<\/p>\n

Gail Dubrow<\/strong>
\n“Contested Memories: Re-Presenting Asian American and Women’s History at Historic Landmarks”
\nJacqueline Hayden and Carla I. Corbin<\/strong>
\n“The Fairground: A Public Landscape of Event and Representation”
\nMark B. Sandberg<\/strong>
\n“Displaying the Cradle of Culture”
\nChair: Dan S. Wang<\/p>\n

\"photo<\/a>
(l-r) Leslie Bellavance (UWM), Arvind Rajagopal (Purdue), and
Marina P\u00e9rez de Mendiola (UWM)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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