The museum as prison

Abstract

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes See Gilles Deleuze, ‘Post‐scriptum sur les sociétés de contrôle’, in Pourparlers, Editions de Minuit, Paris, 1990. Lucy Lippard, Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object, 1973, republished in 1997, University of California Press. This project was undertaken in the wake of Douglas Crimp's book, which laid the foundations of an archaeology of the museum by using as a model Foucault's analyses of the mental home, the clinic, and the prison. See Douglas Crimp, On the Museum's Ruins, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993. Michel Foucault, Surveiller et Punir [Discipline and Punish], Gallimard, Paris, 1975, p. 311. Ibid, p 306. Ibid, p 308. Ibid, p 314. Robert Nickas, ‘Private Collection’, 1991, republished in Live Free or Die, Les Presses du Réel, Dijon, 2000, p 64. Robert Smithson, ‘Cultural Confinement’, originally published in Artforum, October 1972, republished in Nancy Holt, ed, The Writings of Robert Smithson, New York University Press, 1979, pp 132–3. See Hal Foster, ‘The Archive Without Museum’, October, no 77, Summer 1996, pp 97–119, and Douglas Crimp, ‘This is Not a Museum of Art’, in Crimp, op cit, pp 13–16. Didier Maleuvre, Museum Memories: History, Technology, Art, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1999, p 11. Hubert Damisch, ‘Le Musée à l'heure de sa disponibilité technique’, in Cahiers du MNAM, special issue, ‘L'Art contemporain et le musée’, 1989, p 25. Ibid, p 28. Ibid, p 28. Crimp, On the Museum's Ruins, op cit, p 287. On this issue of the in‐situ understood as a material and discursive place, see Crimp's chapter ‘Redefining site specificity’ in On the Museum's Ruins, op cit; Frazer Ward, ‘The Haunted Museum: Institutional Critique and Publicity’, October, no 73, Summer 1995, pp 71–89; Miwon Kwon, ‘One Place After Another: Notes on Site Specificity’, October, no 80, Spring 1997, pp 85–110. Dan Graham, ‘Interview with Ludger Gerdes, 1991’, in Two‐Way Mirror Power, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999, p 70. See, for example, Surveiller et punir, p 313, and Baudrillard's reproach that Foucault failed to discern the disappearance of the panoptic system and its ideal of total transparency in a generalised social dissemination/distribution of the medium comes from a misunderstanding. Jean Baudrillard, ‘La Précession des simulacres’, in Traverses, no 10, 1978, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, pp 27–8. Deleuze, ‘Post‐scriptum sur les sociétés de contrôle’, op cit, p 243. Ibid, p 245. See Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello, Le Nouvel Esprit du Capitalisme, Gallimard, Paris, 1999. Ibid, p 131. Fabrice Bousteau and Jean Poderos, ‘Interview with Catherine Trautman, ministre de la culture’, Beaux‐Arts, no 165, February 1998, pp 95–9. Boltanski and Chiapello, op cit, p 127 ff. See Boltanski and Chiapello, op cit, p 237 ff, as well as Manuel Castells, La Société en Réseaux I – L'ère de l'information, Fayard, 1998, and Jeremy Rifkin, The End of Work, 1996. See Bernard Marcadé, ‘L'in situ comme lieu commun’, art press, no 137, June 1989. Benjamin Buchloh, Sculpture Projects in Münster', Artforum, 36:1, September 1997, pp 115–17. Daniel Buren: ‘The museum, as I first saw it in the 1960s and 1970s, was essentially a place of promotion. Its increased numbers caused it to lose its aura. Now the fact of exhibiting in a museum no longer hallows anything whatsoever… To regain its promotional function, the museum will have to reinvent itself differently, because today, where its power to stand out and impose itself is concerned, it is shattered’. See his interview with Catherine Millet, ‘Daniel Buren, esquiver les allégeances’, art press, no 219, December 1996, p 63. Lionel Bovier and Christophe Cherix, ‘De l'Alternatif à l'Indépendant’, Les Espaces Indépendants, JRP Editions, Geneva, p 15. Smithson, ‘Some Void Thoughts on the Museum’, in The Writings of Robert Smithson, op cit, p 58. In developing the same idea, readers may also refer to ‘A Museum of Language in the Vicinity of Art’ (‘language becomes an infinite museum, whose center is everywhere and whose limits are nowhere’) and ‘The Establishment’ (‘The circles of power become more and more intangible as they move to the edge of nowhere’), republished in the same collection. Michel Foucault, ‘Dialogue sur le pouvoir’, in Dits et Ecrits, vol III, Gallimard, Paris, 1978, pp 464–77. Eric Troncy, Report on the ‘Life/Live’ exhibition, Paris, in art press, no 219, December 1996. Bovier and Cherix, op cit, pp 17–18.