PARTICIPATION IN ART/MUSEUMS

BOOK OF ABSTRACTS – PROGRAMME

BOOK OF ABSTRACTS

THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2025
9:00 – 9:30 REGISTRATION
9:30 – 10:00 WELCOME ADDRESS
10:00 – 11:00 KEYNOTE SPEECH

Anna Chiara Cimoli – Participation without Rhetoric
 
11:00 – 12:45  SESSION 1: CURATING CHANGE
                  (moderator: Patricia Počanić)

Ileana Parvu – Ana Lupas: Working with Peasant Communities in 1970s Romania
Corey Dzenko – Secretary to the People: Recent Case Studies from Sheryl Oring’s I Wish to Say
Jasmin Kolkwitz – Participatory Strategies and Practices in Rasheed Araeen’s work Shamiyaana–Food for Thought: Thought for Change (2016–2017)
Xiangyin Gu – Speaking the Unspeakable: Participation, Haunting, and the Politics of Collective Memory
12:45 – 14:15 LUNCH BREAK
(lunch provided by the conference for registered speakers)
14:15 – 15:45 SESSION 2: MAKING PLACES
                         (moderator: Lidija Butković Mićin)

Petra Kelemen, Sanja Potkonjak, Nevena Škrbić Alempijević – From Factory to Festival: Space, Art, and Community in Sesvete
Diletta Haberl – Growing Together: Giuliano Mauri’s Cattedrale Vegetale and the Poetics of Participatory Nature
Daniel Ongjerth – How Art Can Change a Neighbourhood – a Case Study of the Work of 11_11
16:30 – 18:00 VISIT TO THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN ZAGREB –  
Guided tour of Andreja Kulunčić’s exhibition Making the World a Better Place (optional)
FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
10;00 – 10:30 REGISTRATION
10:30 – 11:30 KEYNOTE SPEECH

Ana Škegro, Celina Damjanović – MSU Youth Club – Actively Engaging Young People in Museum Programmes
 
11:30- 13:15    SESSION 3: SHIFTING INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICES
                          (moderator: Željka Miklošević)

Dalibor Prančević – Reimagining the Museum: Participation and Inclusion in Vladimir Dodig Trokut’s Antimuzej
Heejung Ryoh – Democratizing the Exhibition? A Critical Case Study of the Seoul Museum of Art’s Citizen Curator Program (2015–2022)
Lorena Šimić – Digital Museum Presence: Stories from the Museum Repository as an Example of Participation in Virtual Space
András Müllner – The Canoe Made of One/Two (?) Trees. A Case Study of a Communication Failure in Ethnographic Film
13:15 – 14:45 LUNCH BREAK
(lunch provided by the conference for registered speakers)
14:45 – 16:15  SESSION 4: ENGAGING DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES
                         (moderator: Josipa Alviž)

Ana Rizmaul, Sanja Lončar, Janko Petrović – Participatory Artistic Practices in Heritage Education: The Case of Lukine crte and Endangered Wooden Architecture in Central Croatia
Benedetta Caglioti, Giorgia Sala – Archaeology and Childhood: A Project of Fruition without Perceptual and Cognitive Barriers
Blanka Stančić Puhak –  The Inclusion of People with Intellectual Disabilities in Art
Sandra Uskoković – Art in Motion: Collaboration and Circulation of Communities in Representing Migration
16:15 – 16:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:30  – 17:45 NEW PATRONS  –  ENGAGING COMMUNITY IN COMMISSIONING ART IN PUBLIC SPACE – short presentations of the methodology and ongoing projects in Croatia (moderator: Željka Miklošević)

Jasmina Šarić – Working with Community Using the New Patrons Methodology
Sonja Leboš – Participation in Art – The Case-Study of the EU Project ALILAND (Art Living Lab to Repair the Land)
Maša Štrbac – Challenges in the Implementation of New Patrons Projects – the Case-Study of the Let’s Renew a Well! Project

CONCLUDING REMARKS