Exhibitions and Museums: When Are They Art?

Video of a talk given at the Aesthetics Research Centre of the University of Kent on April 3rd 2019.

http://aesthetics-research.org/archive/2019/elisa-caldarola-exhibitions-and-museums-when-are-they-art/

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Talk: “Exhibitions and Museums: When Are They Art?” at Aesthetics Research Centre, University of Kent

On Wednesday 3rd of April 2019 I’ll be giving a talk at the Aesthetics Research Centre, University of Kent in Canterbury (UK).

Abstract: Marcel Broodthaer’s Museum of Modern Art, Department of Eagles (1968) confronted the public with an exhibition that criticized traditional museum practices by means of appropriating them. This work was explicitly intended to qualify as both an exhibition and a work of conceptual art. In this talk, I explore the hypothesis that the artwork status of some exhibitions might instead have remained, so far, unnoticed, even by their makers. To illustrate my view, I analyze the exhibition of pre-and proto-historic artifacts at Berlin’s Neues Museum and argue that such exhibition is a work of site-specific installation art.

Here’s the link to their full program: http://aesthetics-research.org

Palladio Museum, Vicenza, Italy

Elisa Caldarola (2018), Review of “Philosophy and Museums: Essays on the Philosophy of Museums”, edited by Victoria S. Harrison, Anna Bergqvist and Gary Kemp, NDPR.

My review of this collection of essays has just been published on Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Here’s the link.