Books by Michaela Giebelhausen
Inspiration - Iconic Works, 2020
This essay considers how the history of art, embodied in art-historical canons, schools, periods,... more This essay considers how the history of art, embodied in art-historical canons, schools, periods, and aesthetic standards, has been conceptualised through writing, the organisation of collections, and the decoration of new museum buildings. It examines some of the moments in which the page, the canvas and the wall offer seminal and selective visualisations of the history of art and deploy notions of time and space that are complex and contradictory, and far from dead.
you can download a slightly altered version of the paper from FNG Research, see link above under More info.
Reconstructing exhibitions is a research project that explores the recent curatorial practice of ... more Reconstructing exhibitions is a research project that explores the recent curatorial practice of restaging seminal exhibitions from the past. Reesa Greenberg has argued that it constitutes a new genre, which she has termed ‘the remembering exhibitions’ (Tate Papers 12:2009). Despite the increasing popularity of restaging exhibitions, there is currently very limited scholarship that addresses the complexities and motivations of these reconstructions.
The project aims to advance the emerging scholarship on exhibition reconstructions by bringing together art historians, curators, artists and other museum professionals to share their diverse viewpoints from the fields of art history, curating, museology, art practice, and cultural heritage.
Following two successful events, we are currently seeking contributions for an edited volume, as the first comprehensive study on revisiting past
exhibitions. Please send us your proposed titles and abstracts (350 words) by September 15, 2017.
Reconstructing exhibitions is led by Dr. Michaela Giebelhausen (Central Saint Martins, UAL) and Dr. Natasha Adamou (Kingston University London; Central Saint Martins, UAL). For further info please contact us at [email protected]; [email protected]
Topics may include but are not limited to:
-Negotiating a critical vocabulary: re-staging, reconstruction, re-
enactment, revisiting, sequel, replication, revival, re-creation, iteration
-The role of reconstructions for museums and art institutions in rewriting their own histories
-The role of archives in exhibition reconstructions
-Critique of archives as ideological structures
-What is the contemporary critical value of reconstructions?
-Institutional and curatorial motivations for restaging exhibitions
-The relationship between exhibition histories and art history
-Failures of restagings (i.e. fetishisation)
-Emerging counter-narratives
-Reconstructions, museum collections, patronage, value
-The educational role of reconstructions
-Reconstructions as critique of cultural colonialism
-Audience experience: Remembering and mis-remembering, or from remembered to experienced
-Reconstructions and the art market
-Restagings and identity politics (i.e. revisiting histories of feminism etc) -Reconstructions and their influence on curatorial practice
-The artist’s role in exhibition reconstructions
- Interviews / Oral histories
Past Events:
“The Return of History: Reconstructing art exhibitions in the 21st century” Association of Art Historians (AAH) 42nd Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh (7-9 April 2016) http://www.aah.org.uk/annual- conference/sessions2016/session34
“Reconstructions, Restagings, Re-enactments: Revisiting seminal art exhibitions in the twenty-first century”, International Research Workshop, Futuro House, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, in collaboration with Kingston University London (31 March 2017)
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Reconstructing Exhibitions has been generously supported by the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London.
Talks by Michaela Giebelhausen
Conference Presentations by Michaela Giebelhausen
According to Carol Duncan and Allan Wallach, the museum visitor enacts a civilising ritual when w... more According to Carol Duncan and Allan Wallach, the museum visitor enacts a civilising ritual when walking a 3-D version of the history of art or any other type of history. Svetlana Alpers has famously argued that the stillness of the object enables the museum's 'way of seeing'. The paper explores the stillness of nature in the museum where we often see specimens pinned or taxidermied. It asks what role the mobile spectator might play in configuring man's place in the museum's account of natural history.
Papers by Michaela Giebelhausen
Hispanic Research Journal-iberian and Latin American Studies, Sep 3, 2018
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Books by Michaela Giebelhausen
you can download a slightly altered version of the paper from FNG Research, see link above under More info.
The project aims to advance the emerging scholarship on exhibition reconstructions by bringing together art historians, curators, artists and other museum professionals to share their diverse viewpoints from the fields of art history, curating, museology, art practice, and cultural heritage.
Following two successful events, we are currently seeking contributions for an edited volume, as the first comprehensive study on revisiting past
exhibitions. Please send us your proposed titles and abstracts (350 words) by September 15, 2017.
Reconstructing exhibitions is led by Dr. Michaela Giebelhausen (Central Saint Martins, UAL) and Dr. Natasha Adamou (Kingston University London; Central Saint Martins, UAL). For further info please contact us at [email protected]; [email protected]
Topics may include but are not limited to:
-Negotiating a critical vocabulary: re-staging, reconstruction, re-
enactment, revisiting, sequel, replication, revival, re-creation, iteration
-The role of reconstructions for museums and art institutions in rewriting their own histories
-The role of archives in exhibition reconstructions
-Critique of archives as ideological structures
-What is the contemporary critical value of reconstructions?
-Institutional and curatorial motivations for restaging exhibitions
-The relationship between exhibition histories and art history
-Failures of restagings (i.e. fetishisation)
-Emerging counter-narratives
-Reconstructions, museum collections, patronage, value
-The educational role of reconstructions
-Reconstructions as critique of cultural colonialism
-Audience experience: Remembering and mis-remembering, or from remembered to experienced
-Reconstructions and the art market
-Restagings and identity politics (i.e. revisiting histories of feminism etc) -Reconstructions and their influence on curatorial practice
-The artist’s role in exhibition reconstructions
- Interviews / Oral histories
Past Events:
“The Return of History: Reconstructing art exhibitions in the 21st century” Association of Art Historians (AAH) 42nd Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh (7-9 April 2016) http://www.aah.org.uk/annual- conference/sessions2016/session34
“Reconstructions, Restagings, Re-enactments: Revisiting seminal art exhibitions in the twenty-first century”, International Research Workshop, Futuro House, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, in collaboration with Kingston University London (31 March 2017)
http://reconstructing-exhibitions.smvi.co
Reconstructing Exhibitions has been generously supported by the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London.
Talks by Michaela Giebelhausen
Conference Presentations by Michaela Giebelhausen
Papers by Michaela Giebelhausen
you can download a slightly altered version of the paper from FNG Research, see link above under More info.
The project aims to advance the emerging scholarship on exhibition reconstructions by bringing together art historians, curators, artists and other museum professionals to share their diverse viewpoints from the fields of art history, curating, museology, art practice, and cultural heritage.
Following two successful events, we are currently seeking contributions for an edited volume, as the first comprehensive study on revisiting past
exhibitions. Please send us your proposed titles and abstracts (350 words) by September 15, 2017.
Reconstructing exhibitions is led by Dr. Michaela Giebelhausen (Central Saint Martins, UAL) and Dr. Natasha Adamou (Kingston University London; Central Saint Martins, UAL). For further info please contact us at [email protected]; [email protected]
Topics may include but are not limited to:
-Negotiating a critical vocabulary: re-staging, reconstruction, re-
enactment, revisiting, sequel, replication, revival, re-creation, iteration
-The role of reconstructions for museums and art institutions in rewriting their own histories
-The role of archives in exhibition reconstructions
-Critique of archives as ideological structures
-What is the contemporary critical value of reconstructions?
-Institutional and curatorial motivations for restaging exhibitions
-The relationship between exhibition histories and art history
-Failures of restagings (i.e. fetishisation)
-Emerging counter-narratives
-Reconstructions, museum collections, patronage, value
-The educational role of reconstructions
-Reconstructions as critique of cultural colonialism
-Audience experience: Remembering and mis-remembering, or from remembered to experienced
-Reconstructions and the art market
-Restagings and identity politics (i.e. revisiting histories of feminism etc) -Reconstructions and their influence on curatorial practice
-The artist’s role in exhibition reconstructions
- Interviews / Oral histories
Past Events:
“The Return of History: Reconstructing art exhibitions in the 21st century” Association of Art Historians (AAH) 42nd Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh (7-9 April 2016) http://www.aah.org.uk/annual- conference/sessions2016/session34
“Reconstructions, Restagings, Re-enactments: Revisiting seminal art exhibitions in the twenty-first century”, International Research Workshop, Futuro House, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, in collaboration with Kingston University London (31 March 2017)
http://reconstructing-exhibitions.smvi.co
Reconstructing Exhibitions has been generously supported by the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London.
This session invites proposals for papers that probe the art-historical, theoretical, and political implications of restaging paradigmatic exhibitions. Potential approaches include (but are not limited to) examining particular case studies, such as individual exhibitions or institutions; addressing theoretical issues that cut across different historical moments or geographies; or considering how the reconstruction of historically significant exhibitions engages with larger debates about the role of museums in rewriting their own histories, in renegotiating national identity and cultural memory, in advancing new perspectives in postcolonial theory, and in mediating politics.
AAH2016 Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh, 7-9 April, 2016
For more info: http://www.aah.org.uk/annual-conference/sessions2016/session34