Fig. 5: DRAF Course
The DRAF course seeks to offer a broader configuration of what constitutes DRAF's
identity: a public Foundation with a collection, an exhibition space, and an active
programme of external collaborations. We provide a research context, an informal location
for the production of ideas, a situation, and a platform for discussions. The guests involved
in this course are asked to engage with aspects of DRAF, such as: renegotiating issues of
representation, questioning the institutional model and stimulating inter-disciplinarity.
DRAF Course Second Session: On Museology
15.12.2012. From 1 to 2pm.
Is the role of museums to educate? In what way could educational strategies forge the
programme and display (ordering of artifacts and spacial configuration of rooms) of
institutions?
Presenting a range of approaches through museums of different scales and histories, the
session seeks to understand the current relationship between museology and gallery
education, and its future development. The discussion will be based on the programmatic
text by Carmen Mörsch At a Crossroads of Four Discourses. Gallery Education in
between Affirmation, Reproduction, Deconstruction, and Transformation.
This event will take place in our STUDIO space on the first floor.
Guests:
GLENN ADAMSON, Head of Research, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Glenn Adamson is an art historian and theorist of craft and design. He heads the
Research Department at the V&A and leads the History of Design program offered
collaboratively by the V&A and Royal College of Art. Previously, Dr. Adamson had been
the curator at the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee. He has written widely on history
of craft and design and recently co-curated the exhibition Postmodernism: Style and
Subversion at the V&A in 2011.
KEN ARNOLD, Head of Public Programmes, Wellcome Collection, London
Ken Arnold runs a range of events and exhibitions in the Wellcome Collection that aims
to explore the links between medicine, life and art. He has written and lectured
extensively on museums and contemporary interactions between the arts and sciences.
CARMEN MÖRSCH (External Intervention), Head of the Institute of Art
Education (IAE), University of Arts, Zurich
Carmen Mörsch has been trained as an artist, educator and researcher. Since 2003, she
has been conducting several team-based action-research projects in the field, including
research and consultation for education at Documenta 12 education in 2007. From 2003
to 2008, she has been Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies, Carl von Ossietzky
University, Oldenburg, Germany. In 2011 she was a visiting researcher at WITS School of
Art, Johannesburg. Since 2009, she has directed research for the Programme on
“Kulturvermittlung” at the Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia.
CAROL SEIGEL, Director, Freud Museum, London
The recipient of two degrees in Museum Studies, Carol Seigel is Director of the Freud
Musuem in London, which engages actively with Sigmund and Anna Freud’s
psychoanalytic legacies within contemporary ideas, art, and culture, while caring for the
house and collections.
NICOLETTA LAMBERTUCCI, Assistant Curator at DRAF, will mediate the
discussion.
DRAF Course First Session: The London Eye
17.11.2012. From 6,30 to 8pm
How to continue to maintain relevancy within London?
The first session of the DRAF Course aims to open up the relationship that different
models of London-based spaces devoted to contemporary art have been establishing with
their community and how this relationship was challenged by most recent global economic
events. Each organization will contribute to the debates concerning the role and future
development of London public institutions. By mapping their respective reactions and
management/programme strategies that they have undertaken, the guests will be
examining future possibilities for development.
How does each space operate between the conflicting pressures of the didactic vs the
contemplative? Has this dichotomy been superseded by that of opposition between the
political and the experiential?
Guests:
ALESSIO ANTONIOLLI, Director of Gasworks
Alessio Antoniolli is the director of Gasworks and Triangle Arts Trust. Previously, Alessio
ran the International Residency Programme at Gasworks and was also involved in
developing an artist-led residency programme for the Triangle Art Trust.
VINCENT HONORÉ, Director DRAF
Vincent Honoré has been the director of DRAF since 2008. Vincent has previously
worked at Palais de Tokyo, Paris and Tate Modern, London.
MILIKA MURITU, Director of Cell Project Space
Milika Muritu is the co-founder Cell Project Space, a self-funded not-for-profit
organisation which aims to offer a high level of curatorial, administrative and practical
support for artists whilst hosting a range of educational talks and workshops, which run
alongside an exhibitions programme.
EMILY PETHICK, Director of Showroom
Emily Pethick has been the director of the Showroom since September 2009. Previously,
Emily has worked as the curator at Cubitt and as the director of Casco in Utrecht. She is a
member of the Afterall editorial board.
Mediator: PAUL PIERONI, Curator of SPACE
Paul Pieroni is the curator of SPACE, where he has been heading an experimental
exhibition programme since late 2009.
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