Schedule 6-8 December 2024
Day 0 - Thu Dec 5 Registration
2-7pm Registration opens @ MOCA Grand Avenue
250 South Grand Ave, Los Angeles 90012
Delegates are welcome to visit exhibitions at MOCA Grand Avenue, The Broad and REDCAT, within a short walking distance. All venues are open late until 8pm. At 7pm, MOCA will host MOCA Artist Film: Edgar Calel screening and conversation with the artist. For more information.
Day 1 - Fri Dec 6 The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
8am charter bus pick up at Freehand Hotel for Travel Grantees
8:30am charter bus pick up at all CIMAM Hotels (Omni Hotel pick ups at Olive St entrance).
8:15-9am Welcome Breakfast for Travel Grantees, Travel Grant Funders, CIMAM Board Members (inside Wonmi’s Warehouse, where conference sessions take place)
9-9:30am Coffee & Registration (at Aileen Getty Plaza)
9:30am Conference Begins
9:30-10am
- Welcome by Johanna Burton, The Maurice Marciano Director, MOCA & Clara Kim, Chief Curator & Director of Curatorial Affairs, MOCA
- Welcome by Joan Weinstein, Director, Getty Foundation
- Welcome by Suhanya Raffel, CIMAM President
Introduction by Clara Kim, Chair of 2024 Content Committee
10-10:30am Keynote Speech by Mark Bradford - Arts Education and the Potential for Impact
10:30-12:30pm Session #1
What is our Agency?: The Contemporary Art Museum and Climate Crisis
Moderated by Suzanne Cotter
10-min. presentation by Fiona Ragheb
10-min. presentation by Kelsey Shell
20-min. presentation by Daniel Vega
20-min. presentation by Cecilia Winter
15-min. presentation by John Kenneth Paranada
We are living through a time of climate crisis. What does sustainability look like within institutions today? How are we as a group of professionals enacting lasting structural changes in our institutions and what are the challenges, assumptions and opportunities? How do we think about curation and collection environments in ways that speak to the paradoxes and entanglements of institutional thinking and the world at large?
12:30-12:45pm Introduction to Olafur Eliasson: OPEN by José Luis Blondet (*meet in front of the gallery intro wall)
12:30-2pm Boxed Lunch catered by Café Dulce (at Aileen Getty Plaza)
2-3:45pm Session #2
Sustainable Ecosystems: Rethinking Museum Collections and Buildings within the Urban and Social Realm
Moderated by Chus Martinez
20-min. presentation by Michael Maltzan
20-min. presentation by Andrea Lissoni
20- min presentation by Sara Zewde
Museums are living, thriving entities that are part of the urban landscape, having an impact on neighborhoods, communities, and cities. As part of a larger ecosystem with a wide range of stakeholders, museums are tasked with intellectual, historical, and social responsibility, as well as expected to respond to moments of crisis and change. As museums take a turn towards the social, how do we develop more sustainable ecosystems that re-imagine our role and responsibility within the larger urban fabric of a city? How do we rethink our collections and buildings as porous boundaries between the public and private, between the past and present, between the museum and community, between the physical and the environmental? How do we redefine our relationship to place beyond museum walls?
3:45-4pm Respondents
Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh, Co-Executive Directors & CEO, Remai Modern
Apsara DiQuinzio, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Nevada Museum of Art
4:15-5pm Breakout Sessions (at Aileen Getty Plaza)
5:15pm charter bus departs for Getty Center
6:30-6:45pm Arrival at Getty Center
6:30-8:30pm View PST exhibitions at Getty Center
Lumen: The Art and Science of Light.
Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.).
7.30pm Welcome Remarks by Joan Weinstein (at Getty Center Rotunda)
Dinner Reception
9pm charter buses back to downtown hotels
Day 2- Sat Dec 7 Hammer Museum at UCLA
8:15am charter bus pick up at All CIMAM Hotels (Omni Hotel pickup at Olive St entrance)
9-9:30am Registration & Coffee
9:30am Conference Begins (at Billy Wilder Theater)
9:30-9:45am Welcome by Aram Moshayedi, Interim Chief Curator, Hammer Museum
Introduction by Content Committee member Kitty Scott
9:45-10:15am Keynote speech by Zita Cobb. Fogo Island: The Possibility of a Place
10:15-12:15pm Session #3
Economies of Sustainability: Ethics, Values and Resilience
Moderated by Aram Moshayedi
20-min. presentation by Manuel Segade
20-min. presentation by Mai Abu ElDahab
20-min. conversation between Ibrahim Mahama & Yesomi Umolu
20-min. presentation by Andrea Fraser
Within the economic, political, and social challenges we face today, the need to reassess existing financial models has become more urgent than ever as it relates to the long-term health and viability of museums and as we navigate the encroaching lines between public good and private interest. What do sustainable funding structures look like in the art and cultural sector? How is the governance of museums affected by who’s in power and what’s in play? What changing philanthropic models can museums and non-profits learn from? How do social impact philanthropy and artist-generated projects help sustain long-term goals for self-reliance as well as create new resilient models?
12:15-12:30pm Respondents
Deepanjana Klein, Director of Acquisitions & Development, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
Eungie Joo, Curator and Head of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
12:30-12:45pm Introduction to Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice by co-curator Mika Yoshitake
12:45-1:45pm Boxed Lunch (Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy Studio)
Delegates to view shows on their own
2-3pm Interlude Presentation - Artist Talk by Walid Raad
Two drops per heartbeat: A free-fall in the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection
(at Billy Wilder Theater)
3:15pm board charter buses at Lindbrook Entrance
Transfer to downtown & other tour sites
4-6pm Tours of PST ART shows and other spaces
Group A. MOCA Grand, REDCAT, Broad
Group B. REDCAT, MOCA Grand, Broad
Group C: The Brick, ICA, VPAM
Group D: VPAM, ICA, The Brick
Group E: Eames House, Schindler House, Hollyhock House/LAMAG
6:30-8:30pm Reception & Standing Dinner
Hosted by Hauser & Wirth
Arts District, 901 East 3rd Street, LA
7:30pm charter bus leaves for UA Theater
8:30pm charter bus returns to All CIMAM Hotels
8pm (optional) PST ART Performance co-presented by REDCAT & CAP UCLA
Live Night: Cruising Bodies, Spirits and Machines
featuring rafa esparza and Muxx
UA Theater, downtown LA
Tickets required. For more information: https://www.redcat.org/events/2024/live-night
Day 3 - Sun Dec 8 LACMA & Academy Museum
*Bags will be subjected to security check upon entry to Academy Museum. If possible, please refrain from bringing bags.
8:15am charter bus pick up at All CIMAM Hotels (Omni Hotel pickup at Olive St entrance)
9-9:30am Registration & Coffee
9:30am Conference Begins (at Ted Mann Theater, Academy Museum)
9:30-9:45am Welcome by Michael Govan, CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director, LACMA, & Rita Gonzalez, Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art, LACMA
Introduction by Content Committee member Joselina Cruz
9:45-10:15am Keynote Speech by Candice Hopkins - The Potential in Not Being a Museum
10:15-12:15pm Session #4
Sustainable Communities: Indigenous Perspectives and Worldviews
Moderated by Rita Gonzalez
20-min. presentation by Edgar Calel
20-min. presentation by Pablo Jose Ramirez
20-min presentation by Taloi Havini
20-min. presentation by Djon Mundine
Indigenous artists, curators, and thinkers have been making highly visible change in museums throughout the world. Indigenous ways of thinking and knowing have permeated institutions and the practices of exhibition making and collecting. What does sustainability, when seen and understood through indigenous perspectives, mean for our institutions? What should be sustained, changed, and re-imagined? How do indigenous perspectives and worldviews realign the intersection between art, ecology and community?
12:15-12:30pm Respondents
Michelle LaVallee, Director, Indigenous Ways and Decolonization, National Gallery of Canada
Stephanie Rosenthal, Director Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project, Guggenheim Museum Foundation
12:30-2pm Lunch @ LACMA (boxed lunches available for pick up at BCAM West Lawn between Academy & LACMA, delegates can sit anywhere on the LACMA plaza)
12:30-1:30pm Farewell Lunch for Travel Grantees, Travel Grant Funders, CIMAM Board Member (at LACMA Smidt Welcome Plaza, behind garage elevators, near Ai Weiwei zodiac sculptures)
Delegates to view PST ART shows at LACMA on their own
Mapping the Infinite: Cosmologies Across Cultures
We Live in Painting: The Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art
Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film
Josiah McElheny Island Universe
1:45pm return to Ted Mann Theater, Academy Museum
2-2:30pm Closing Remarks
2:30-3:30pm General Assembly
3:45pm charter buses depart for Tour Program
4:30-7pm Tours of PST ART shows & LA spaces
Group A: David Horvitz’s Garden, Art + Practice, Crenshaw Dairy Mart (0 remaining)
Group B: Crenshaw Dairy Mart, David Horvitz’s Garden, Art + Practice (0 remaining)
Group C: CAAM, Autry, JPL/Brand.
Group D: JPL/Brand, CAAM, Autry.
Group E: MOLAA.
7:30pm Hosted Dinner & Farewell Party (BCAM at LACMA)
Hosted by Jarl Mohn, Founder of MAC3 - a collaboration between Hammer, LACMA, and MOCA
9:30pm charter buses back to downtown hotels