The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country, Artium Museoa, announces the launch of AMAonline.eus, the digital editorial platform of Artium MuseoA.
AMAonline is conceived as a tool to sustain an ongoing dialogue and engagement with the audiences of the museum and to build communities around its various programs on a wider scale. While the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque country is currently making its building more porous to the exterior, AMAonline articulates the wish for the museum to create deeper and more varied connections with its audience beyond traditional spectatorship and attendance.
AMAonline shares what the museum stands for, but also how its mission and its role are the object of continuous thinking and learning, and never taken for granted. Extending its digital, online presence offers new ways of presenting, promoting, and discussing the works and ideas of the artists and thinkers who are at the center of the museum program. Yet, it also implies to examine how the extended time spent online, which is such an important characteristic of the current moment, is affecting the way we read, think, and engage with art and with the world more generally.
AMAonline is structured around three sections, each inspired by different works by the late feminist science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin: while Harvesting Knowledge derives from her influential essay “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction,” A Matter of Words and No Time To Spare directly quote two of her last collections of short-forms.
This editorial platform aims at continuing her practice of disseminating dispatches on what matters to the present of art.
In Harvesting Knowledge, every month, a collaborator of the museum hand-picks a selection of what they have been reading, watching, or listening to online recently.
Art discourse takes on various forms and adopts different styles and genres within the museum’s activities: A Matter of Words includes poetic, theoretical, fictional, analytical, scholarly, personal, written or oral contributions.
Writers, curators, artists, thinkers from various disciplines share reflexive and speculative insights on the future of artistic and institutional practices in No Time To Spare
AMAonline.eus editorial committee is formed by Thomas Boutoux and Catalina Lozano (Chief editors), Beatriz Herráez (Director, Artium Museoa), Alejandro Cesarco (artist) and Márcia Novais (graphic designer).
Inaugural online conversation
Wednesday, April 5, 6pm CET
On the occasion of its launch, AMAonline.eus will host an online conversation between Thomas Boutoux (curator, editor and editor of AMAonline.eus), Sonia Fernández Pan (Sonia Fernández Pan, writer, (in)dependent curator and podcast host), Catalina Lozano (editor of AMAonline.eus and Chief Curator of Artium Museoa) and Núria Molines Galarza (translator of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Conversaciones sobre la escritura)
