[Nettime-nl] KIOSK for Useful Knowledge at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Saturday 25 September

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The Politics of Collecting - The Collecting of Politics
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Saturday 25 September 2010, opening 16.00
Part 3 of the Play Van Abbe programme

The Politics of Collecting - The Collecting of Politics
What is a collection? What is an archive? What are the relationships  
between documents or objects with memory, identity, history and  
society? What can and what cannot be archived? Can an archive become a  
collection? Why do we enjoy looking at a collection? Part 3 of Play  
Van Abbe is about collecting as an archive of visual cultural  
memories. The museum maps out what a collection policy tells us about  
the time in which it is established. We also wonder what it means to  
collect "political moments"; moments that give meaning to developments  
in our contemporary culture.The exhibition gives you the chance to  
look again at the highlights of the Van Abbemuseum and compare them  
with collections and archives created by artists. For them, collecting  
is a strategy for creating an image of the social situation in which  
they live.

Participating artists / institutions:
Denmark, Michal Heiman, Hannah Hurtzig, Zofia Kulik, Lia Perjovschi,  
Sean Snyder, Lidwien van de Ven, Akram Zaatari, BKR (collection),  
Contemporary Art Museum Palestine (CAMP - collection) as well as  
artists and  institutions contributing to the exhibition Time Machines  
- Reloaded.

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Saturday 25 September
17.00 - 19.00  KIOSK for Useful Knowledge: Narratives about Places,  
Cities, Territories
The Museum. Live-dialogue Nr.1
Annie Fletcher, curator at the Van Abbemuseum and Paul O`Neill,  
curator, artist, writer, Bristol
Archived by Hannah Hurtzig / Mobile Academy (4 more dialogues on the  
memory of the museum will be recorded live during the exhibition in  
November and December)

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Play Van Abbe Part 3 can be seen in the museum until January 2011
The Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven is one of the first public museums for  
contemporary art to be established in Europe. The museum has an  
experimental approach towards art`s role in society. Openness,  
hospitality and knowledge exchange are important. The programme Play  
Van Abbe focuses on the identity of an art museum in the 21st century,  
and the museum uses itself as a model. We challenge ourselves and our  
visitors to think about art and its place in the world, covering a  
range of subjects, including the role of the collection as a cultural  
"memory" and the museum as a public site. A place for creative cross- 
fertilisation and a source of surprise, inspiration and imagination  
for its visitors and participants.


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