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Speakers
Opening Keynote Address:Changing Museums
Professor Ronald de Leeuw
Director of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Thursday 9th November, 2006, 10.00am
Wood Lecture Theatre, Economics and Commerce Building.
‘Often museums change as the result of societal pressures, or pressure from politicians representing society. Is there anything we, as museum professionals and/or art historians, wish to change or develop ourselves? Museums have evolved since the 19th century, but not really in an essential way. We present our collections too much according to classification (art - decorative arts, glass with glass, silver with silver) without necessarily asking ourselves: Is the public actually interested in that? or: What other stories could our objects tell? It is a fact that temporary exhibitions rate far better with the public than permanent displays of the collection. What should be learnt from this? Does new media have a role to play?’
Professor Ronald de Leeuw has been Director of the Rijksmuseum since 1996, and in 2002 he became principal of the New Rijksmuseum Project. He is also Extraordinary Professor of Museology and of the History of Collecting at the Free University at Amsterdam. Prof. de Leeuw has been instrumental in bringing several major exhibitions to Australia, including Rembrandt (1997) and Dutch Masters (2005). |
Closing Keynote Address:Cinema Invents Ways of Dancing
Adrian Martin
Senior Resarch Fellow, Monash University Film and Television and author.
10th November, 2006 5.00pm
Wood Lecture Theatre, Economics and Commerce Building.
'How do you dance, Sandman?' That pointed question from Francis Coppola's THE COTTON CLUB (1984) cues us into the many forms and meanings that dancing has in cinema, once it is liberated from the strict confines of the conventional musical. Dance as social action, as strategy or resistance ... cinema is always inventing ways of dancing, often in the least likely contexts. Taking its cue from writers including Serge Daney, this presentation will present (with clips) a range of cinematic dance-inventions, from Godard and Akerman to KING OF NEW YORK and PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE.
Adrian Martin is Senior Resarch Fellow, Monash University Film and Television and the author of Raul Ruiz: Sublimes Obsesiones (Altamira, 2004), The Mad Max Movies (Currency, 2003), Once Upon a Time in America (BFI, 1998) and Phantasms (Penguin, 1994), as well as the Co-Editor of Rouge (www.rouge.com.au). |
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