Keynote, Communities, and Nature and Ephemerality I May 8, 2024
Recorded sessions from the symposium, “Public Art Inside Out,” co-organized with Museo delle Culture (MUDEC), Milan, held May 7–8, 2024 in Milan.
Agenda:
KEYNOTE SPEECH
• Princesse Marilyn Douala Manga Bell, Doula'art, Cameroon,
and Marta Pucciarelli, University of Applied Sciences and
Arts of Southern Switzerland, Switzerland. Public art is
(re)connection: people, heritage and space
COMMUNITIES
• Karen Mack, LA Commons, USA. _Our Stories Will Save Us:
Public Art, Narrative and Intergenerational Empowerment
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• Sylvia Jeffriess, UAP, USA. Arakawa Gins Reversible Destiny:
Architecture and preservation through participation
• Taylor Cheng, Royal College of Art, U.K. The Forms
of Holding Us Together
• Lejla Dzumhur, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and
Herzegovina. How to Restore Sarajevo Roses? A Matter of
Authenticity in Conveying the Commemorative Significance.
NATURE AND EPHEMERALITY
• Robert Lazarus, University of Melbourne, Australia. Sand Sculptures
of Northeast Arnhem Land: Materiality, Intentionality, Maintenance
• Veerle Meul, Middelheim Museum, Belgium. Back to the Roots?
Sculpture naturally in Midde/heim Museum.
• Kati Ots, Tallinn Strategic Management Office, Estonia. Towards Sustainable Public Art in Tallinn
• Caroline Lerch and Brianna MacGillivray, Los Angeles
County Department of Arts and Culture, USA. Sound
Art as Permanent Public Artwork
“Public Art Inside and Out” took place in a hybrid format and included a wide variety of professionals to exchange ideas—from practitioners to researchers and academics, artists, art historians, curators, conservators, architects, city planners, policy makers, collectors, benefactors and institutions procuring public art.
View details and the symposium schedule, which included keynotes speeches, themed sessions, and an artist panel: https://www.getty.edu/projects/modern...
Part of Getty Conservation Institute’s Modern and Contemporary Art Research Initiative: https://www.getty.edu/projects/modern...