19.30: Welcome by Jelle Bouwhuis 19.40: Lecture by Viktor Misiano 20.10: Introduction of Museutopia by Huub van Baar 20.25: Discussion with Huub van Baar, Viktor Misiano and Ilya Rabinovich (moderator: Annie Fletcher) 21.00: Drinks
Viktor Misiano (Moscow, Russia, 1957) is an art critic and curator. From 1980 until 1990, he was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Pushkin National Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow and, from 1992 to 1997, Director of the Centre for Contemporary Art in Moscow. He curated the Russian participation in the Biennales of Istanbul (1992), Venice (1995, 2003) and Valencia (1999) and took part in the curatorial team of the Manifesta I in Rotterdam in 1996. He is a co-founder and chief editor of The Moscow Art Magazine (since 1993) and of Manifesta Journal (since 2003). In 2005, he curated the first Central Asia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Viktor Misiano is an honorary doctor of the Helsinki University for Art and Design. – See more at: http://www.savoy.alaudapublications.nlhtml/events_eng.html#sthash.llC3kEqE.dpuf
Huub van Baar (The Hague, The Netherlands, 1970) is a research fellow at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam. Between 2003 and 2009, he participated in an international collaborative research project on the impact of cultural globalization on the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of Communism. He is the author of The European Roma: Minority Representation, Memory and the Limits of Transnational Governmentality (Amsterdam, 2011). His research includes analyses of museum and memorial practices in post-Communist Europe, transnational minority activist networks and newly emerged forms of minority governance and citizenship practices in Europe. His work focuses particularly on past and current forms of Roma minority governance in Europe and how they relate to different representations and conceptualizations of Europe. His work has appeared in various scholarly journals, such as Third Text, the International Journal of Cultural Policy and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Museutopia A Photographic Research Project by Ilya Rabinovich
Following the release of Museutopia: A Photographic Research Project by Ilya Rabinovich, we cordially invite you the Book Launch with Viktor Misiano, Huub van Baar and Ilya Rabinovich. Moderator: Annie Fletcher. More info: www.smba.nl
19.30: Welcome by Jelle Bouwhuis
19.40: Lecture by Viktor Misiano
20.10: Introduction of Museutopia by Huub van Baar
20.25: Discussion with Huub van Baar, Viktor Misiano and Ilya Rabinovich
(moderator: Annie Fletcher)
21.00: Drinks
Viktor Misiano (Moscow, Russia, 1957) is an art critic and curator. From 1980 until 1990, he was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Pushkin National Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow and, from 1992 to 1997, Director of the Centre for Contemporary Art in Moscow. He curated the Russian participation in the Biennales of Istanbul (1992), Venice (1995, 2003) and Valencia (1999) and took part in the curatorial team of the Manifesta I in Rotterdam in 1996. He is a co-founder and chief editor of The Moscow Art Magazine (since 1993) and of Manifesta Journal (since 2003). In 2005, he curated the first Central Asia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Viktor Misiano is an honorary doctor of the Helsinki University for Art and Design. – See more at: http://www.savoy.alaudapublications.nlhtml/events_eng.html#sthash.llC3kEqE.dpuf
Huub van Baar (The Hague, The Netherlands, 1970) is a research fellow at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam. Between 2003 and 2009, he participated in an international collaborative research project on the impact of cultural globalization on the transformation of Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of Communism. He is the author of The European Roma: Minority Representation, Memory and the Limits of Transnational Governmentality (Amsterdam, 2011). His research includes analyses of museum and memorial practices in post-Communist Europe, transnational minority activist networks and newly emerged forms of minority governance and citizenship practices in Europe. His work focuses particularly on past and current forms of Roma minority governance in Europe and how they relate to different representations and conceptualizations of Europe. His work has appeared in various scholarly journals, such as Third Text, the International Journal of Cultural Policy and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Book Launch
Museutopia A Photographic Research Project by Ilya Rabinovich
April 27, 19.30 hrs.
SMBA, Rozenstraat 59, 1016 NN Amsterdam