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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

287) Mark Rectanus: Examining the corporate influence on art museums and culture

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

Kaméa Chayne

Earth Sciences, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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About Mark Rectanus:

Mark Rectanus is University Professor of German Studies (Emeritus) at Iowa State University. He has published numerous books and articles, including essays in New German Critique, Performance Research, and Museum and Society.

His most recent book is Museums Inside Out: Artist Collaborations and New Exhibition Ecologies, which explores what it means to be a museum in the twenty-first century and how museums are blurring the traditional boundaries between their galleries and public spaces.

 

Song featured in this episode: Black Moss by Johanna Warren

Green Dreamer with Kamea Chayne is a podcast exploring our paths to holistic healing, ecological regeneration, and true abundance and wellness for all. Find our show notes, additional resources, and newsletter on our website: www.greendreamer.com

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podcast and we don't take on corporate advertisers to fund our work because we don't want those

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considerations to influence our curiosities or our abilities to question whatever it is that we want to question.

0:22.3

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donation at greendreamer.com slash support. It really means a lot to have you here and we're so

0:47.6

grateful for whatever form or level of support that you're able to share with us.

1:01.0

There used to be this assumption that museums were by and large neutral. And now workers for museums are saying we need to move beyond neutrality.

1:08.0

We need to advocate for socially responsible positions. We also need to make sure that

1:16.6

board members, people who have control of museums are also socially responsible.

1:34.5

Hey, it's Camilla Shane and this is Green Dreamer, a podcast exploring our paths to holistic healing,

1:38.5

ecological regeneration, and true abundance and wellness for all.

1:45.2

This is a community-backed show, so as we enter this new year, we kindly ask for your direct support today, if you can, at patreon.com slash greendreamer, or through purchasing our fundraising planners at

1:51.7

greendreamer.com slash shop. Today we have with us here Dr. Mark Rectonis, a university professor of

1:59.2

German studies at Iowa State University.

2:02.0

He's published numerous books and articles, including Culture Incorporated and his latest

2:06.7

museums inside out, artist collaborations, and new exhibition ecologies.

2:12.3

We hear a lot about, you know, the corporate influence in politics and even in mainstream media,

2:18.4

but have you ever thought about how corporate money has influenced our cultural and art institutions and museums, now largely

2:24.0

partially reliant on corporate funding? Well, you're about to hear an expansive conversation on how

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