Imaginary Interactions: Failure, Redemption and the Case of Contemporary Art Inside the Freud Museums

Joanne Morra will talk about her recent book Inside the Freud Museums: History, Memory and Site-Responsive Art. The Freud Museums in London and Vienna have held over 90 exhibitions, from international and emerging artists, over 25 years. Joanne will consider the unique relationship between the Freud Museums’ and contemporary art through the 'site-responsive' artworks, exhibitions and curatorial practices that intervene in the objects, spaces and memories of these Museums. She will explore how she approached the archive, made sense of it, and how contemporary art instigates imaginary and real interactions, through its objects and the ideas associated with it.