Welcome, Policies and Soft Power, and Anti-Monumentality Sessions I May 7, 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:
Welcome
POLICIES AND SOFT POWER
• Lewis Biggs, Institute for Public Art, U.K. Foundational
Art for a New Town: Chris Drury at Otterpoo/ Park
• Oscar Svanelid, Sodertorn University, Sweden. Soft Power
and the Edges of Critique: Public Art in the Swedish Military
• Elisabeth Del Prete, UP Projects, U.K. Public art: Testing
New Democracies
• Fang-Tze Hsu, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore. Between Soft
Power and the Regionality of Art History: A Case Study of ASEAN
Sculpture Garden at Fort Canning Hill, Singapore
• Mechtild Widrich, School of Art Institute of Chicago, USA. Lueger's Tilt: Recontextualization and Politics in Vienna
ANTI-MONUMENTALITY
• Jeanelle Austin, George Floyd Global Memorial, USA. Public
Memorialization and Preservation as Protest at George Floyd Square
• Magda Rossi, Juan Quispe Mamani, Mauricio Montano Ojeda, Colectivo
Perrosueltos, Bolivia. NATINTA Urban Art Meeting in La Paz General
Cemetery, Bolivia
• Todd Lawrence and Heather Shirey, University of St. Thomas, USA.
Monumental Blackness: Black Lives Matter Street Murals
and Commemoration of the 2020 Uprising
• Michelle Brown, University of Tennessee, jill moniz, Jonny Moniz,
* and *Jack Moniz, Transformative Arts, USA. Abolition Now: Images
for Study and Struggle
“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...