Programme Symposium

09.00-09.30      Registration and coffee

09.30-10.30      Tour and introduction to Trapholt by Karen Grøn

11.00-13.00      SESSION 1: Welcome

Welcome by Birgit Eriksson, Professor

Crafting Hope: Collaborative Art as Resistance and Resonance in Times of Neoliberal Culture Politics

Karen Grøn, Director of Trapholt – Museum of Modern Art, Craft and Design, DK

Relational Agency and Hope in and Beyond CraftWorks

Birgit Eriksson, Professor, Aesthetics & Culture, Aarhus University, DK

Hope in the Making: Affective and Material Practices in the Art Museum

Tina Louise Hove Sørensen, Assistant Professor, Aarhus University, DK

Discussion

13.00-14.00      Lunch at Café Gustav Lind, Trapholt

14.00-15.00      SESSION 2: Keynote

Fellow Travellers – the Museum as an Open System for Social Transformation

Alistair Hudson, Chairman of the ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, DE

Discussion

15.00-15.30      Coffee

15.30-17.00      SESSION 3

Building Alliances of Solidarity Within and Beyond the Art Institution

Sabine Dahl Nielsen, Assistant Professor, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, DK

The (Design) Museum as a Parahost of Civil Action

Trine Friis Sørensen, Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, NL

The Living Art Museum

Tafadzwa Nomphanelo Makwabarara, Curator of Cultural Empowerment at the Sainsbury Centre, UK

Discussion

17.15                Transport to Kolding Fjord Hotel

18.30-19.00      Pickup at Kolding Fjord Hotel. Transport to Karen Grøn.

Dinner hosted by Karen Grøn (in her garden)

09.00-10.00      SESSION 4

Nostalgia, Creative Power and Hope

Mette Houlberg Rung, (PhD), Head of Collections and Exhibitions, Museum of National History, Frederiksborg Castle, DK

From Polarisation to Belonging Through Cultural Education

Milda Ivanauskienė, Director of MO Museum in Vilnius, LT

Discussion

10.00-10.30      Coffee

10.30-11.30      SESSION 5 Keynote

“Oh My Brain, I Got to Complain. Well, You Can Complain, but I’m Gonna Do Something.” (Patti Smith, 1997) Polycrisis as Opportunity for Collective Resistance in the Museum

Bernadette Lynch, University of London and Manchester, UK

Discussion

11.30-11.45      Coffee

11.45-12.45      SESSION 6

Art Museums as Sites for Imagined Elsewheres in Youth Lives

Anne Mette W. Nielsen, Associate Professor, Danish Centre for Youth Research, Aalborg University, DK

Developing Strategies to Practice Resolution: Closing the Gap in the Transformative Learning Cycle to Promote Change and Foster Hope

Emilie Sitzia, Associate Professor, Cultural Education, University of Maastricht, NL

Discussion

12.45-14.00      Lunch at café Gustav Lind, Trapholt

14.00-15.15      SESSION 7

Kill Your Darlings: Hope From Fire

Anthony Schrag, Researcher, Queen Margaret University Edinburgh, UK

Hope and Emotional Engagement in Museums

Marzia Varutti, Dr. University of Geneva, CH

Discussion

Introduction to Junior Researcher’ Session

15.15-15.45      Coffee

15.45-16.45      Junior Researchers’ Session

Presentation/dialogue facilitated by the participating junior researchers

• Christiane Særkjær, Dr. / Postdoc, Communication & Culture, Aarhus University, DK
• Kristian Roland Larsen, Curator / Postdoc, Trapholt, Museum of Modern Art and Design, DK
• Petra Vackova, Dr. / Postdoc, Museology, Communication & Culture, Aarhus University, DK
• Xenia Brown Pallesen, Ph. D. Fellow, Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, DK

16.45-18.30      Break, enjoy a drink on the terrace or a walk in the park

18.30                Dinner at café Gustav Lind, Trapholt

09.30-10.30      SESSION 8

Museums, Plural Epistemologies and the Politics of Hope

Louise Fabian, Professor, Philosophy and History of Ideas, Aarhus University, DK

Instilling Cultural Humility: Building a Learning Art Institution for a Resilient Future

Fatos Ustek, Independent curator and writer, UK

Discussion

10.30-11.00      Coffee

11.00-12.30      New hopes and actions? Concluding workshop and discussion

12.30-13.30      Lunch