Abdel Hernandez San Juan

Teoria del museo

Seminario Teoricos impartidos en teoria del museo

1995-Curatorial Practices and the Museum Collection.

By abdel Hernández San Juan

The petare museum of popular Art

1994-1995- Curatorial Practices and the Museum Collection. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan, Six month Series of Lectures discussing axiology’s issues in art critique and postmodern anthropology, (stephen A Tyler, James clifford), Abdel Hernandez San Juan, Peran Hermini and Fina Weitz (Museum director), spanish, The Petare Museum of Art, Caracas, Venezuela

In this theoretical seminar of six months abdel Hernández San Juan discussed a sociology of culture análysis of the current contemporary situation with the each time more difussed and blored relations between hight culture, mass medias culture and folklore culture, theorizing how to understand the codes of hight culture, mass medias/ consumering culture and traditional cultures at the análysis and interpretations of visual and material culture including museum practices and collectionism, something allow us as well as invite us to explore new interdisciplinary developments  between semiótic of art and culture, art critique and anthropology considered from the perspective of posmodernism, an spetial effort was dedicated during the seminar to discuss posmodernism in anthropology focussing Stephen A tyler and James Clifford

1993-The Art of the Intermediaries

By abdel Hernández San Juan

The Mario Abreu Museum of contemporary art lectures auditorium

1993- The Art of the Intermediaries. By Abdel Hernández San Juan, a three months course of one lecture a week discussed at the Mario Abreu museum of contemporary art, references at the Century news paper, Maracay, Venezuela

The art of the intermediaries was a 1993 theoretical seminar of one conference a week teached and discussed by abdel Hernández San Juan at the Mario Abreu contemporary art museum of maracay in Venezuela. This very exclusive seminar was focussed in developing the theory of the museum both the museum itself as a concept and as an idea of culture and cultural memory as well as a display of exhibiting cultural form, material and visual culture in between académic research endeavors and public culture, a public culture however highly mediated and affected by a progresive transformation of the espheres of values (axiologies), the seminar explored a unique conjuntion between a textualist semiological approach to the museum, a Sociological approach to the process of valious formation complexitations (axiological sociology) and semiological/linguistic/cultural anthropology análysis of the concepts of collection, curatorial practices and restauration, the seminar was promoted at the Century news paper and adressed to an audience of museum spetialists, museographers, curators and museum workers focussed in collection and restauration

1993-New Ways to Art genealogies.

By abdel Hernández San Juan

The Mario Abreu Museum of contemporary art lectures auditorium

1993- New Ways to Art genealogies. By Abdel Hernández San Juan, a three months course of one lecture a week discussed at the Mario Abreu museum of contemporary art, references at the Century news paper, Maracay, Venezuela

theoretical seminar of one conference a week durng three months teached and discussed by abdel Hernández San Juan at the Mario Abreu contemporary art museum of maracay in Venezuela. This very exclusive seminar was focussed in developing the semiological theory of narratology and genres discourse applied to both the theoretical and empirical análysis and development of textual narratives in museology and museography. The main focuss of the seminar was in semiótic theory análysis of the relation between alphabetic texts (the use of texts in museography and catalogues) and visual Icons and discourses ( the unfolding of visual culture, material culture and iconographic languages at the museum displays spatialities) or the diagramation and designs of catalogues.
The narratological profile of the seminar explored a unique conjuntion between análysis of the relation between textualists atomized micronarratives at the museum displays and relations between culture and narratives outside the museum displays socioculturality, contextuality or considered under periodizations, historicities narratives and how to explore genealógical perspectives avoiding linearities. The seminar was mainly adressed to museologists, museographers, currators and museum spetialists and was promoted at the Century news paper

1994-The Curator as creator

By abdel Hernández San Juan

Guest panelist lecturer, first encounter of curators, puerto la cruz

The Curator as creator was a conference lectured by abdel Hernández San Juan at the first encounters of curators of Venezuela, throught the lecture abdel theorized and analized the contigencies of Curatorial practice in the field as, on the hand, the result of a formation process sociologically discussed which progresibly started to relativize the disciplinary boundaries between the old producer and the old art critic, while on the other hand, the contigency evolves too interdisciplinary explorations such as for example jean fracoys  Lyotard exhibit  "the inmateriales" at pompidue about which abdel discussed both the catalogue and the exhibit focussing general posmodern sociocultural issues on scriptural economies, textual economies and in general the relation between the complejization of values formations at mediation and intermediation logics and the progresive evolutión of curatorial practices as a young field to become a sobreordinate supradiscursive practices of discourses and enuntiations production tends to transform the curatorial profesional profile (and the formation of curators) in a modality of creation or at least a domain of practices needed to be defined under theories of creativity.
The encounter included conferences by abdel Hernández San Juan, Rina Carvajal and María luz cárdenas between others and was promoted at the universal news paper, see quoted references, (En la jornada Abdel Hernández levanto la polémica con sus opiniones sobre la figura social del curador en el contexto del arte contemporáneo. Abdel Hernández habló del nuevo arte de los intermediarios. La Dimensión Económica de la Contemporaneidad entró de lleno en las discusiones del segundo día del Primer Encuentro Nacional de curadores de arte con la intervención del joven teórico cubano Abdel Hernández San Juan sobre el nuevo arte de los intermediarios, Diario El Universal, Caracas, 16 de Abril, noventa y cuatro, 1994 ), this encounter was coordinated by Venezuelan research and curator Vicky (victoria galarraga), from the sectorial direction of museums of the conac, ministry of culture of Venezuela, when Vicky worked as curator assistance of Roberto Guevara and the barro of america panamerican bienale, developed in puerto la cruz, Venezuela, 1994

Obras autorales en teorias del museo

Repensando la antropologia urbana: el ojo del museo en el trabajo de campo. Por Abdel Hernandez San Juan, libro autoral

Antropologia de la arqueologia: una perspectiva desde la etnometodologia y la antropologia cultural. Por Abdel Hernandez San Juan

Posiciones academicas y curatoriales en teoria del museo

Teorico invitado de la facultad de sociologia y antropologia de lake Forest College en el tema el museo y las representaciones culturales, antropologia y museos, turismo y antropologia, estados unidos y mexico, instalaciones etnograficas, mercados de artesania maya, illinois, estados unidos, 1999

Curador de arte contemporaneo venezolano, museo de artes visuales alejandro otero, la rinconada, caracas, 1994-1996

Curador del tema museo/mercado, museo de artes visuales alejandro otero, la rinconada, caracas, 1994-1996

Encuentros en teoria del museo

Teorico invitado del college of fine art, university of texas at austin, encuentro con catherine david, antropologia y globalizacion de la cultura, coordinado por harper montgomery, curadora, critico y escritora, full tape recorded, universidad de texas, austin, estados unidos