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(In english) The Democratic Future of Museums. Reflections on a Participatory Project Named “gipSMK - The Royal Cast Collection Goes to Town”TRANSCRIPT
The Democratic Future of Museums
Reflections on a Participatory Project Named “gipSMK - The Royal Cast Collection Goes to Town”
(“gips” means “plaster” in Danish)
Henrik Holm, Phd., Curator Statens Museum for Kunst / The Royal Cast Collection
Still from the documentary on ”gipSMK” (YouTube)
The (Old) Usual Suspects
Winckelmann
Hegel
Kant
Copy of the Apollo Belvedere, a favourite of artists for 400 years
The performance of Western Sovereignty
Evolution of the Art, Freedom, Mankind, and Spirit as it shows at the Royal Cast Collection
The End of History: Winckelmann dislikes his contemporary Baroque art, and laments the loss of the past through the sigh of the Laocoon
Ca. 580 BC - ca. 450 BC - 1st. Cent. BC – 1st. Cent. AD - 1501-4
Julius Lange (1838-1896), the Cast Collection’s first Curator
“Non-European civilizations such as the Japanese worship nature, but Europe is Europe because … we worship Man, our invention and our favourite.”
Once a happy performance: convention, utterances, and completion came together
Plaster cast of the ”Apollon Belvedere”
and ”The Parnassus” by Anton Raphael Mengs,
1761
A ”White’s Only” - collection: White Casts on Display in a Warehouse Build to Store the Goods Provided by Slaves
Casts of Michelangelo’s ”Slaves” and the ”Laocoon-group”
Performativity turning bad in Modernity
The Situation
• Copies are out: only original artworks wanted
• Sculpture on bases are unwanted in ”the expanded field”
• Antiquity and tradition is just ”old hat”
1966: Excluded from History1984-2002: A Period of Interest
2002- in Jeopardy
What casts do: they perform “stylized repetition of acts” / “stylization of the body” = creates the idea of
gender and identity (Judith Butler)
”gipSMK- The Royal Cast Collection goes to Town”
The Dancers Recieve their Casts
High School Students Preparing Installations Involving the Casts
Dancers ”taking in” the casts
A Democratic Future for Museums?
POSITIVE
Students of Contemporary Dance
Highschool students
University students, DK + Yale
Danish Agency for Culture
Museum Conferences
NEGATIVE
Colleagues
Professional Dancers
Non-western emigrants to Denmark
The Press
ON THEIR WAY IN
Art Academy Students
Students of Architecture
Professional Artists
PERHAPS?
SMK?Society?Democracy?