Presents
“The Silent Message of the Museum”
A recipient of a McArthur fellowship as well as the 2003 American representative at the Venice Biennale, Fred Wilson has become internationally known for his museum installations, in which he re-installs and re-labels objects owned by a museum for the purpose of creating new meanings and non-conventional narratives. Beyond bringing home the point that the way we view and “read” objects is conditioned by context and juxtaposition, Wilson’s installations subvert, criticize, or poke fun at the unspoken assumptions that museums make about the social order, including such issues as class, gender, and ethnicity, In his lecture, Wilson will show how his interventions expose the one-directional view typical of traditional museum practice and remind us that there are many different perspectives and viewpoints other that those contained in traditional museum wall texts.
Seton Hall University
400 South Orange Ave.
South Orange, NJ
Jubilee Hall Auditorium
February 3, 2010 at 7:00 PM
Free and open to the public
For information, call 973-761-7966
For directions, see http://www.shu.edu/visiting/
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