[spectre] New podcast: Interview with Chris Dercon

[Radio Web MACBA]

*New podcast: Interview with Chris Dercon*


Chris Dercon, current director of the Tate Modern in London, talks about
museums in times of crisis, the role of art in contemporary society, and
new forms of collecting, exhibiting and engaging with the market.



Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/chris-dercon/capsula



‘When we talk about culture, we're not talking about goods but about
values’, says Chris Dercon (Lier, Belgium, 1958). And cultural values have
a direct effect on our bodies and our minds, he continues. They are
essentially a form of emancipation; a form of biopolitics.



In his role as director of the Tate Modern in London – where he landed in
April 2011 as Vicent Todolí’s successor – Dercon is at the helm of a
project that focuses on redefining the essence of the contemporary art
museum as a gathering place and a space for conversation, an agora for
sharing and producing knowledge.



Dercon studied art history, theatre and film theory in Amsterdam and
Leiden. He has worked as a documentary maker, independent curator and
cultural producer. Before joining the Tate, he was co-founding director of
Witte de With in Rotterdam (1990–95), and director of the Museum Boijmans
van Beuningen in the same city (1996–2003), and of Haus der Kunst in Munich
(2003–11). He is also an advisor to the Generali Foundation of Vienna and
MACBA.



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