26.01.2019

Saturday January 26, 2019 | 12:00pm - 5:00pm
The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory (ANCB) | Christinenstr. 18-19 | 10119 Berlin

Dubravka Sekulić, assistant professor at the IZK Institute for Contemporary Art, will give a closing keynote, “What Is to Be Done? Really Useful Knowledge and Counterpublics” at the symposium “Extrovert Interior: Publicness and the Contemporary Museum.” The symposium is a collaboration between the Centre for the Future of Places at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm and ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin, and seeks to explore changes in the role of the museum and its relation to the public that have occurred in the recent years.

Could the expansion of the remit of museum practices provide access to other social groups, audiences, and interests, thereby making way for a democratisation of discourse and knowledge? What might this mean in terms of challenging the centrality of the metropolis, the capital city, and the regional center in relation to the rural? What might it mean in relation to a contemporary understanding of publicness and the role of public space within the city? Finally, what do these processes of dissolution, expansion, withdrawal, and outreach mean for architecture - the discipline traditionally charged with erecting ‘the edifice’ of the museum? 

This symposium is part of ANCB’s long-term program “Knowledge Spaces”, which investigates the role of physical spaces in supporting the generation, presentation, discussion, and conservation of knowledge in relation to political, academic, cultural, and societal aspects. 

More information on the symposium is available here