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The Democratic Future of Museums
Reflections on a Participatory Project Named “gipSMK - The Royal Cast Collection Goes to Town”
(“gips” means “plaster” in Danish)
Henrik Holm, Phd., Curator Statens Museum for Kunst / The Royal Cast Collection
Still from the documentary on ”gipSMK” (YouTube)
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The (Old) Usual Suspects
Winckelmann
Hegel
Kant
Copy of the Apollo Belvedere, a favourite of artists for 400 years
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The performance of Western Sovereignty
Evolution of the Art, Freedom, Mankind, and Spirit as it shows at the Royal Cast Collection
The End of History: Winckelmann dislikes his contemporary Baroque art, and laments the loss of the past through the sigh of the Laocoon
Ca. 580 BC - ca. 450 BC - 1st. Cent. BC – 1st. Cent. AD - 1501-4
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Julius Lange (1838-1896), the Cast Collection’s first Curator
“Non-European civilizations such as the Japanese worship nature, but Europe is Europe because … we worship Man, our invention and our favourite.”
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Once a happy performance: convention, utterances, and completion came together
Plaster cast of the ”Apollon Belvedere”
and ”The Parnassus” by Anton Raphael Mengs,
1761
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A ”White’s Only” - collection: White Casts on Display in a Warehouse Build to Store the Goods Provided by Slaves
Casts of Michelangelo’s ”Slaves” and the ”Laocoon-group”
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Performativity turning bad in Modernity
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The Situation
• Copies are out: only original artworks wanted
• Sculpture on bases are unwanted in ”the expanded field”
• Antiquity and tradition is just ”old hat”
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1966: Excluded from History1984-2002: A Period of Interest
2002- in Jeopardy
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What casts do: they perform “stylized repetition of acts” / “stylization of the body” = creates the idea of
gender and identity (Judith Butler)
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”gipSMK- The Royal Cast Collection goes to Town”
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The Dancers Recieve their Casts
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High School Students Preparing Installations Involving the Casts
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Dancers ”taking in” the casts
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A Democratic Future for Museums?
POSITIVE
Students of Contemporary Dance
Highschool students
University students, DK + Yale
Danish Agency for Culture
Museum Conferences
NEGATIVE
Colleagues
Professional Dancers
Non-western emigrants to Denmark
The Press
ON THEIR WAY IN
Art Academy Students
Students of Architecture
Professional Artists
PERHAPS?
SMK?Society?Democracy?