Carnegie Report: Audience engagement through contemporary art practices

Schedule

Tue Sep 24 2024 at 03:00 pm to 05:00 pm

Location

Chau Chak Wing Museum, University Place, Camperdown, 2006, AU | Pyrmont, NS

Tuesday 24 September: Join us for the second presentation in a series which explores the evolution of Australia's museums and galleries over
In 1933 the Carnegie Corporation commissioned A Report on the Museums & Art Galleries of Australia . It offers a comprehensive post-Federation snapshot of the sector documenting funding models, collection development, resourcing, staffing and audience engagement. Ninety years on, many of the challenges it identified remain pertinent. Hindsight has revealed, however, some glaring omissions: including the absence of diversity and First Nations perspectives. As such it is a timely moment to consider how the sector has developed, what work still needs to be done, and the issues that the Carnegie Report failed to foresee.
This series of four talks will explore the original context and themes of the Carnegie Report, to learn from the past and assess the challenges of the next 90 years of museum practice in Australia.
In this talk, MCA Public Programs Manager Susan Sheddan will discuss some of the drivers in the history of museum education programming that have contributed to shaping those terms of relationship and shares examples of programs she worked on that attempted to enable new provisional agencies and alliances, many of which were developed through strategies of contemporary art practices.

Where is it happening?

Chau Chak Wing Museum, University Place, Camperdown, 2006, AU, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University Pl, Camperdown NSW 2050, Australia,Sydney, Australia, Pyrmont

Event Location & Nearby Stays:

Host or Publisher Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney

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