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In collaboration with Performa09 , the Vera List Center and Parsons present the American premiere of Museum Futures: Distributed, Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska’s new film on the power of cultural institutions. Set in 2058, the film offers a provocative vision of a hyper-globalized art world featuring the future director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden, which commissioned the piece on occasion of its 50th anniversary in 2008. Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska are artists based in London who have collaborated between 1995 and 2008. They have worked with museums, banks, galleries, archives, auction houses, schools, and department stores. Their different projects have consistently engaged with the relationship between art and institutions coupled with other domains such as politics, society and economics. Their work has been shown at Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, London; Kunstwerke, Berlin; and Tapies Foundation, Barcelona. Marysia Lewandowska is currently an artist-in-residence at Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. After the 30 minute-screening, the respondents Jamer Hunt and Christiane Paul offer an analysis of the film from their respective fields, in a joint conversation with Marysia Lewandowska. Presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics in collaboration with Performa09 and Parsons’ Streaming Culture/Art & Politics series, and on occasion of the Vera List Center’s 2009-2010 program theme “Speculating on Change.”
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