Day 1 Highlights > CIMAM 2024 Annual Conference in Los Angeles.
Day 1 Highlights > CIMAM 2024 Annual Conference in Los Angeles.
Friday, December 6 📍 The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Introduction by Clara Kim, CIMAM Board Member, Chair of the 2024 Contents Committee, Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Keynote: Mark Bradford, Artist, Los Angeles.
Session: What is our Agency? The Contemporary Art Museum and Climate Crisis.
We are living through a time of climate crisis. What does sustainability, in the most expansive sense, look like within institutions today? How are we as a group of professionals enacting lasting structural changes in our institutions? What are the opportunities for the sustainable museum? How do we think about collection environments in ways that speak to the entanglements of addressing carbon emission reduction? How can a commitment to equality, social change, and cultural transformation be part of a sustainable vision for museums for the future?
With presentations by
- John Kenneth Paranada, Curator of Art and Climate Change, Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia, London.
- J Fiona Ragheb, Deputy Director for Curatorial and Exhibitions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, in conversation with Kelsey Shell, Environmental & Sustainability Strategist, MOCA, Los Angeles.
- Daniel Vega, Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Conservation, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao.
- Cecilia Winter, Project Specialist, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, USA.
Moderated by Suzanne Cotter, CIMAM Board Member, Member of the 2024 Contents Committee, and Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Sydney.
Session: Sustainable Ecosystems: Rethinking Museum Collections and Buildings within the Urban and Social Realm.
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?
With presentations by
- Djon Mundine, Artist, Curator, Writer, Activist, Sydney.
- Michael Maltzan, Principal, Michael Maltzan Architecture, Inc., Los Angeles.
- Andrea Lissoni, Artistic Director, Haus der Kunst, Munich.
- Sara Zewde, Principal, Studio Zewde, New York
Moderated by Amanda de la Garza, CIMAM Board Member, Member of the 2024 Contents Committee, and Artistic Deputy Director, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (MNCARS), Madrid.
Followed by workshops, afternoon visits to the Getty Center, PST Art exhibitions, and dinner.
Join us to explore sustainability and innovation in art museums!