Special Program: The Manifestation of Form: Living Materials in Contemporary Art
IN PERSON; OFF-SITE AT HAMMER MUSEUM AT UCLA
On the occasion of the closing weekend of Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials, the Hammer Museum at UCLA presents a symposium featuring talks by artists, curators, museum professionals and scholars. The program is co-presented with the Fowler Museum at UCLA.
The symposium will critically examine the bond between the ontological dimension of the art object and the use of mineral and organic materials emerging from Brown and Indigenous worlds. These conversations will focus on key questions raised by the exhibition, underscoring how the notion of living materials can recast museological practices while challenging the practice of ownership within art collections and questioning established conservation and display protocols.
Artist Rose B. Simpson kicks off the program with her keynote presentation, followed by a panel discussion between artist Carmen Argote, Idurre Alonso, Head of Modern and Contemporary Collections at the Getty Research Institute, and Sylvia Forni, Fowler Museum director, moderated by exhibition curator Pablo José Ramírez.
SCHEDULE
2–5PM
Welcome and opening remarks: Jessi DiTillio, curatorial assistant, Hammer Museum
Keynote address: Rose B. Simpson
Panel discussion:
Idurre Alonso, Head of Modern and Contemporary Art and Curator of Latin American Collections, Getty Research Institute
Carmen Argote, multidisciplinary artist
Silvia Forni, Shirley & Ralph Shapiro Director, Fowler Museum at UCLA
Moderated by Pablo José Ramírez, Curator, Hammer Museum
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Academic Programs at the Hammer Museum are supported by the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation and the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation. Additional support is provided by Mary Kitchen and Jonathan Orszag, Babyletto, The Brotman Foundation of California, City National Bank, Ellen & Teddy Schwarzman, Jay Meredith Stein & Josh Zwass, and friends of the Hammer Museum’s Kids Art Museum Project (K.A.M.P.).
